Jan
27

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Guided by Voices Eat the Factory

Douglas Martin was in the Sandbox-era lineup of Guided by Voices. He was the greatest four-year-old bassist in indie-rock history. No need to put the word classic in scare-quotes. Between 1994 and 1996, the lineup of Guided by Voices released some immeasurably great output. If most pop-rock bands had the opportunity to slap their name… Continue reading »

Jun
13

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Psychedelic Horseshit Gets Laced (and Ambitious)

Douglas Martin keeps ‘em laced in the illa snakes. Psychedelic Horseshit’s name is instantly recognizable among the lo-fi horde, but for all the wrong reasons. Psychedelic Horseshit jokingly created the rather abhorrent term “shitgaze,” one used to describe scuzzy-as-fuck-but-otherwise-great bands like Times New Viking and Eat Skull. Psychedelic Horseshit is far more famous for this… Continue reading »

Mar
14

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: New Adventures in Hi-Fi

First the White Stripes break up, now every day Douglas Martin wakes up, somebody got something to say. As long as there’s been a “lo-fi” genre, there have been bands ditching their basements for studios the second a record exec utters the term “album budget”. But as we slowly move out of the era of… Continue reading »