Does this year feel like Concertpalooza? Every band is coming out of hiding and making their re-entry, and guess what? Of course, we want a part of it. Music is an essential aspect of LaunchLeft, and our team is gearing up for their favorites.
Read moreLaunchLeft Listens: Geishas of Doom : Rich Tupica
Geishas of Doom, shown above, is a lo-fi punk-rock outfit. Extra cool points for the Dead Moon shirt.
Drown in a bow wave of reverb that’s accented by menacing guttural howls and muddied-up budget guitars, Geishas Of Doom tastefully nod to the ’90s and early-2000s garage-punk boom — the golden age of the trashy, lo-fi rock ’n roll.
Read moreLaunchLeft Throwback: Big Star’s ‘Radio City’ (1974) : Rich Tupica
Big Star’s Radio City LP was released 49 years ago, Feb. 1974.
“Back then, you would tag things with ‘city,’” recalled Big Star drummer Jody Stephens on the naming of the band’s now-classic Radio City album. “If you’re in a rock ’n’ roll band, it’s ‘rock city.’ If something bad happened, it was ‘drag city.’ We all thought this was a radio-friendly album, so — Radio City.”
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