Scissorkick.com was born within the second wave of music blogs in the late 1990s and is guided by a soundtrack to one mode of contemporary living here in NYC. It is proudly genre-agnostic and on a continuous search for new independent rock and electronic music.
I’m not sure what prompted me to pick up Swervedriver’s classic Raise back in high school, but ever since then I’ve had a real soft spot for swirling, shoegazing guitar rock. Add some solid melodic direction underneath the wall of sound and you end up with some of the all time classics — Daydream Nation, Loveless and Souvlaki for starters. While Philadephia’s Relay are not…
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I first posted The Changes way back on November, 17 2004 and I cannot believe that it’s creeping up on two years since I first heard “When I Wake, “ a near perfect pop song that still hasn’t lost its luster. Well, good things come to those who wait, and on September 26th, I highly recommend you rush out and get a copy of “Today…
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Considering the recent tragedy in New Orleans, it comes as little surprise that Louisiana transplants Home Video would release a record painted in lingering melancholy. Blurring the lines between electronic and rock music is certainly nothing new but too often the success of this combination is measured by the inability to separate its increasingly disparate parts. But Home Video’s Collin Ruffino and David Gross seem…
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Got back from DC and was happy to return to the Ratatat record sitting in the mailbox. Not only did the good people at XL send over the CD, they also sent over the first vinyl single from the record, “Wildcat, ” which includes a sick E*Vax remix on the A-side. What can be said about Ratatat that hasn’t already been said? The record has…
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