The Stereopathic Interview

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If I could find the time to write more, Stereopathic’s readership would have, by this time, been subjected to a lot more semi-literate posts on Metuchen, New Jersey’s Roadside Graves. The band released my favorite record of 2009, My Son’s Home, a sprawling and ambitious 18-song record dense with beautifully-detailed characters and stories related via singer John Gleason’s bourbon-throated rasp. Since I still don’t really have the time to write, I’ll spare you any further rock-critic-journalist hoo-hah. “Writing about music…” goes the oft-quoted (and rarely attributed) aphorism, really “…is like dancing about architecture.” Read more

Shearwater. The band, not the bird.

Stereopathic is pleased to announce totally blown away that Shearwater is playing at the Bell Tower in Pullman on Tuesday, April 20th Friday, April 30th. The show starts at 8 PM. We’re lining up a local act to kick things off; Lawrence, Kansas’ Hospital Ships opens, followed by Shearwater’s thrilling and epic live show.

Shearwater, of course, will be touring in support of their Read more

This song just slugs you in the gut.

Get the rest of the Roadside Graves’ great session at HearYa, and while you’re at it, take a listen to the version of Wooden Walls here.

Roadside Graves: My Son's HomeNew College, Oxford, is of rather late foundations, hence the name. It was founded around the late 14th century. It has, like other colleges, a great dining hall with big oak beams across the top, yes? These might be two feet square, forty-five feet long.

A century ago, so I am told, some busy entomologist, went up into the roof of the dining Read more

veckIt’s streaming (sorry, not no more as of 6/1) on Grizzly Bear’s myspace. After you listen, go buy it.

As with Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavillion, it is absolutely exhilarating to hear a creative and ambitious band tether its experimental tendencies to the concise demands of the four-minute pop song.

Grizzly Bear - Cheerleader (from 2009’s Veckatimest)

Magnolia Electric Co’s “In the Human World” engages by evoking, its sounds recalling that peculiar American combination of open spaces and rust-streaked, decrepit industrial ruins, its lyrics stirring and opaque:

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boawIt’s Stereopathic’s busiest week yet.  All told, we’re bringing in six out-of-town artists to entertain Moscow with various forms of folk music, countrified and otherwise. Check out our Birds on a Wire page for links to everyone’s respective myspaces, and for a big fat pic of David Dalbey’s beautiful poster. And, of course, there’s more after the jump . . . Read more

Free Stuff

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illinoizeSome free stuff isn’t worth the price. Here’s one example of that.

Some free stuff is a minefield with the occasional ripe, delicious strawberry. Behold, one such a thing.

Some free stuff is worth paying money for. Read more

neko-truckSomewhere on internet, Neko Case was asked of her song, “So, is ‘This Tornado Loves You’—is it about how violent and tempestuous love can be?” or something to that effect. Neko’s reply, God bless her, went along these lines: “No, it’s about a tornado being in love with someone.” That is, she meant the song literally. Read more

horsefeathers1Justin Ringle, a Moscow, Idaho native and the center of Portland folk band Horse Feathers, had an interview last year with the SoCal blog Aquarium Drunkard, an interview that managed to ask nearly every question a Stereopathic interviewer might have asked him. To wit: Read more

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