ARTICLES BY CF
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  PARTY IN THE WOODS TONIGHT
Animal Collective Want You to ComeListening to Animal Collective, you get the sense that they've have had some trouble letting go of their childhoods. After spending time with them, this theory is confirmed beyond doubt. They divide their hours equally between outdoorsy shit (dancing around campfires and climbing trees) and putting in marathon sessions with their instruments, making idiosyncratic blobs of modern pop. ...
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 FUCKIN' EH!
Death From Above Born From a PartyOn your stereo, Death From Above (not to be confused with New York production team DFA) sound like No Means No and Sightings, only seven times scarier. Live, however, it's 37 times scarier. The band is a mere two guys, but the bass and keyboards of Jesse Keeler suicide-attack the drums and vocals of...
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 FRATS VS. PUNKS
It's the Same Fucking PartyI once heard a horrible, horrible man (my biological dad) say, "An Irishman is just a nigger turned inside out." Though that quote is wrong for a plethora of reasons, it can be effectively used to describe punks, who are essentially frat boys turned inside out....
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 UNDERGROUND LOVERS
My Disco are Having the Time of Your LifeMy Disco make little electroclash glam boys wilt like a penis on shitty coke. Not only did they steal their name from Big Black, they took their true-til-death attitude from Seņor Albini as well. They sound like the contents of a toolbox started a band: abrasive, utilitarian, and fucking cool. And t...
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