Apr
11

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Spaceships and the Return of Douglas Martin Music

Douglas Martin has finally returned from an exclusive summit, where he drank limited-edition microbrews with Waldo, Carmen Sandiego, Machiavelli, and the members of Eat Skull. He is happy to be back. In spite of my absence from the music writing world for the past couple of months in favor of occupying myself with mental restoration… Continue reading »

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 »