Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Warpaint and the Weight of Subtlety | January 31, 2014 |
Douglas Martin still has the strongest look on the Internet. Subtlety is a grossly undervalued quality in rock music. Ever since the advent of the volume knob, the sort of guitar music that gets us most inspired is either heavy as a brick or as shrill as a toothache. If you practice chiefly in the […]
Pick Your Colors Wisely: The Return of Warpaint | November 6, 2013 |
Jordan Pedersen wishes the internet would shut up about bacon. For my money, there are few generic trappings more appealing than dream pop. Call it bourgeois exploitation if you like, but cloak something in enough fuzz and echo, and I’m usually sold. It’s music game wrapping stuff in bacon. Well I guess good songs help, […]
Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Warpaint’s Battlefield of Love | October 25, 2010 |
Douglas Martin doesn’t put on war paint before combat. Just an army helmet. With a name like Warpaint, people rarely mistake the Los Angeles quartet for anything closely resembling easy listening. The hotly-tipped band has made quite the name for themselves over the past couple of years by navigating the minefield that is better known […]