Black Rock bands and other fantasies: Sacha Jenkins and the White Mandingos
The low-down on the record, the band’s genesis and the state of race in America.
Music
Best Albums: Franz Ferdinand, Soundgarden’s Ben Shepherd, The Dodos
Franz Ferdinand: Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
HBS: In Deep Owl
The Dodos: Carrier
Best Albums: Operatic death metal, garage rock goes acoustic, and boom-bap beats
Fleshgod Apocalypse: Labyrinth
Ty Segall: Sleeper
Jel: Late Pass
Julianna Barwick: Nepenthe
Zola Jesus & JG Thirlwell: Versions
Best Albums: Washed Out, Bloc Party, and Deltron 3030
Washed Out: Paracosm
Deltron 3030: City Rising From the Ashes EP
Bloc Party: The Nextwave Sessions EP
Portland metal-punk scholars Red Fang
Four learned scholars of riffology with a penchant for injecting their unique brand of doom-ridden metal-punk with a dose of good.
Best Albums: Relentless metal, risk-taking pop, and bluesy psych rock
Revocation: s/t
Rabbit Rabbit: Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Vol. 1
Demon Queen: Exorcise Tape
Old Baby: Love Hangover
