This month LIVE EYE TV sits down with Craft Spells at The Chop Suey in Seattle to discuss the band, touring, and future work! Since the release of the outstanding debut Idle Labor on Captured Tracks, Justin Vallesteros and bandmates have been on a whirl-wind tour of the US and Europe, headlining dates as well as playing with bands like [...]

Live music this week from Pete “Sonic Boom” Kember, and his band Spectrum. Kember’s work in the 1980′s with British band Spacemen 3 would take post-punk music into heady and psychedelic territority with it’s “minimal is maximal” aesthetic, and “just say yes” injunction of, “taking drugs to make music to take drugs to”. This set was recorded live at The [...]

Through the late eighties and early nineties the Japanese noise band Boredoms built a legendary reputation among alternative music fans for audacious recordings like, Anal by Anal and Pop Tatari. Having garnered the attention of “underground” musical luminaries such as John Zorn and Thurston Moore, the band went on to tour with Nirvana, signing major label deals in Japan and [...]