Organizers of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival announced that Slint are now confirmed as part of their “Don’t Look Back” series. It was announced that the band will be performing their genre-defining album Spiderland in its entirety in both Europe and the US. Slint have been credited with spawning the post-rock movement of the 90’s with their innovative take on song structure and the
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(and I just noticed today!) From wikipedia.org: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 1986 from the remains of Squirrel Bait. Though they disbanded circa 1991, they continue to be a massive influen...
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I had the fortune to be reunited with 2 boxes worth of CDs and some crates of vinyl that I had put into storage for several years recently. Besides the amount of inside-humor of going through albums that I thought were the absolute shit in high school, there were a few specifics that I was looking for to revitalise my current music collection. Besides the Prong albums, which were unfortunate...
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Organizers of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival announced that Slint are now confirmed as part of their “Don’t Look Back” series. It was announced that the band will be performing their genre-defining album Spiderland in its entirety in both Europe and the US. Slint have been credited with spawning the post-rock movement of the 90’s with their innovative take on song structure and the
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I had the fortune to be reunited with 2 boxes worth of CDs and some crates of vinyl that I had put into storage for several years recently. Besides the amount of inside-humor of going through albums that I thought were the absolute shit in high school, there were a few specifics that I was looking for to revitalise my current music collection. Besides the Prong albums, which were unfortunate...
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It's been a looooong time since I really listened to this song. Slint loomed so large as influences to the math-rock/post-punk scene here in Atlanta when I first started really playing in bands, but now you hardly ever hear anyone mention them.I love this song though. It's unnerving. The drum beat makes you feel like ocean waves are washing over your head. The hushed, spoken vocal is super-high...
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This is part one of the Slint piece I wrote for Punk Planet Magazine in 2005 (issue #66). I'll be posting the entire piece and a few extras here. Enjoy!Sometime around 1992, David Yow - the cowboy-boot-stomping, drunken-wailing singer for The Jesus Lizard - made a grown man cry."I was in Germany," Yow remembers, "I was at a bar talking to this local German guy and he said, "When is Slint going ...
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This is part two of the Slint piece I wrote for Punk Planet Magazine in 2005 (issue #66). I'll be posting the entire piece and a few extras here. Enjoy!"IT SEEMED INCOMPLETE"When Slint formed in 1985, they weren't called Slint. They played their first show during a service at a Unitarian church as "Small Tight Dirty Tufts of Hair; BEADS."At the time it was just Walford, Pajo, and Buckler (whose...
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