Email Author CHRISTOPHER WEINGARTEN

2011 Stories by CHRISTOPHER WEINGARTEN

• DOUBLY SWEET

  published September 28, 2011

  Blaming Panda Bear for chillwave is like blaming Faith No More for Limp Bizkit. The cuddly mush-merchant truly had the best intentions in... More >>

• SWANS' WAY

  published September 14, 2011

  After 13 years of inactivity, New York's most perverse misery merchants Swans are back and itchier than ever. Announced with doomsday... More >>

• THE WARM, FUZZY TYPE

  published May 18, 2011

  Times New Viking lurched from the Columbus, Ohio, underground in 2005 with a blown-out, speaker-grating, ear-poking, beyond-the-red sound... More >>

• SLUDGE MATCH

  published April 6, 2011

  Crossing the fertile soil between heavy metal, ambient noise, and weird, disgusting bullshit, this four-band bill at Europa is like an... More >>

• HEAD RUSH

  published March 30, 2011

  After taking a whopping 30-month break between albums, TV on the Radio have finally returned with Nine Types of Light—in all... More >>

• PAINT IT BLACK

  published March 30, 2011

  British sound art pioneer Lustmord has spent 25 years on ambient music’s depressive, barnacle-scraping, void-staring, shadow-lurking... More >>

• SCREAM TEAM

  published March 30, 2011

  Sharp, noisy, petulantly straightedge—Unbroken were just one of many pioneering punk bands to kick and scream from the ’90s San... More >>

• DEATH BECOMES THEM

  published March 23, 2011

  Sub Pop–endorsed yelpers the Obits are New York's greatest West Coast band, a blast of sunny harmonies, hardcore gnash, and jittery... More >>

• IN THE ZONE

  published March 23, 2011

  Increasingly enormous Australian band Cut Copy live somewhere between the endless sweatstorm of dance music, the cuddly neon warmth of... More >>