Loose Fur may have a moniker similar to the Dark Prince himself, but you”ll find no Lucifer here. These guys probably lie somewhere more around purgatory.
The band feels like a sort of “Wilco Lite,” with two of the guys, Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche being members of Wilco, while the other dude, Jim O’Rourke has produced many of their albums. O’Rourke also worked on albums for Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Faust and Joanna Newsom. He also callaborated with Thurston Moore and now lives in Japan, so good for him.
Sounds Like: Stuffing a wicker rocking chair into a white ’90s Oldsmobile station wagon.
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(NOTE: This was my contribution to a feature that ran @NintendoLife about the 25th Anniversary of the NES. I just wanted to archive these memories for myself.) The first video game I ever saw was Kung-Fu for the NES. My older sister’s friend down the street had just gotten the system, so she kindly escorted [...]
What if a deranged Santa Robot decided we all didn’t deserve gifts this year? Mega Man would come and bust ‘em up, that’s what! AceSparks of Sprite Inc. has re-imagined Charles Dicken’s classic, A Christmas Carol into a Mega Man game where the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Future and Jacob Marley are evil robots [...]
Mario may be the master of Mushroom Kingdom, but that hasn’t stopped programmer Jay Pavlina from dragging other classic NES icons into goomba territory in his new aptly-titled game Super Mario Bros. Crossover. In this undefinabley-awesome act of retro bliss, players get the chance to rampage through all the levels of the original Super Mario [...]
