Slint

...towards the end of Milky Ways to discover the album's brightest moments: the tripped-out "King Kong is Dead", which sounds like Slint if they got a hold of Mandrill's old Moog, and the album's closing number "Little Girl", a song that...

In this article: Milky Way, House music, Chicago, New Wave, Suicide, Commodore 64, Iron Man, Sub Pop, Radiohead, and Pavement

Slint was a rock band consisting of Brian McMahan (guitar and vocals), David Pajo (guitar), Britt Walford (drums), Todd Brashear (bass on Spiderland) and Ethan Buckler (bass on Tweez). They formed in Louisville , Kentucky, United States in...

In this article: Spiderland, David Pajo, Brian McMahan, Touch and Go Records, Squirrel Bait, and King Kong

...unpredictable vigor. The singing's agitated, the guitars caustic and bruising, the drumming George Hurley-swift and -brutal. Anyone with Slint, Don Caballero, Minutemen, or Upsilon Acrux releases in their collection will find X-Ray Press a...

In this article: Big Business, Seattle, E mail, Don Caballero, Phil Ek, Fleet Foxes, Jan Jelinek, and Frank Bretschneider

...Make Say Think remain some of the only performers to legitimize it as a term of art, playing their music as if the divisions between Talk Talk, Slint, Tortoise, Don Caballero, and Explosions in the Sky simply don't exist. The most striking...

In this article: Do Make Say Think, Akron/Family, Coyote, Justin Small, Don Caballero, Johann Johannsson, You, You're a History in Rust, Ohad Benchetrit, and Explosions in the Sky

...on a plate. The latter forget that, despite having being on Hydra Head until now, Pelican have always claimed to be as influenced by Slint and fellow townsfolk Tortoise as much as Neurosis and Metallica. Then, of course, there was 2007's...

In this article: Pelican, Dylan Carlson, Hydra Head, Southern Lord, Blood Mountain, Earth, A Red Red Rose, and Life & Times

...to be your typical concert. It's a multilayered event. The return of The For Carnation is unexpected. McMahan, a founding member of Slint and Squirrel Bait, has been deliberate in reviving the band, which now includes Todd Cook, Tim Barnes,...

In this article: The For Carnation, Brian McMahan, Louisville, Speed Museum, All Tomorrow's Parties, and Squirrel Bait

...Pinback and Three Mile Pilot, which also served as a spiritual home to fans of nonconformist music by bands like The Jesus Lizard and Slint - was severely downsized. Three Mile Pilot Likes: The Bridge: "I just watched it," said Jenkins.

In this article: Three Mile Pilot, Zach Smith, Pinback, The Black Heart Procession, Star Control, Temporary Residence Limited, and Wired.com

...but on their third go, the Circles are clearing a path all for themselves. Debts are still due to genre godheads like Mogwai and Slint, for certain, but like the best work of their obvious forebears, on Geneva the Circles have found a way...

In this article: Geneva, Russian Circles, Circles, Station, and Chicago

...psych rock eventually gave way to ZZ Top-like boogie ordinaire. As rock comeback efforts go, Meat Puppets are no Mission of Burma, Slint, or Polvo. DAVE SEGAL Crocodile) Hope Sandoval makes lassitude sound incredibly sensual. When she...

In this article: Meat Puppets, Gaslight Anthem, Hope Sandoval, Mission of Burma, Colm O Ciosoig, Polvo, Quavers, Crocodile, Kid Dynamite, and Showbox

SEMI-LEGENDARY Louisville quartet Slint broke up in 1991 just as its second album, "Spiderland," was released. With a precise, dynamically dense, darkly ominous sound -- imagine a young David Lynch making music instead of movies --...

In this article: David Pajo, Brian McMahan, Steve Albini, Spiderland, Will Oldham, Tweez, and All Tomorrow's Parties