In case you missed him, former Codeine drummer and Come guitarist Chris Brokaw lived in Seattle for about six years this decade before returning to his previous Boston home base in 2017. While here, ...
Things seem to be always getting faster. The jump cuts introduced on early MTV seem about as rapid-fire as a bingo game these days, while the flood of new bands that jammed everyone’s dinky radars ...
On Sunday, April 17, the centerpiece story in the Arts and Entertainment section of The New York Times was a story about how, via the Slim Thug/Mike Jones/Paul Wall hit single “Still Tippin’,” Houston ...
Nearly 20 years after their dissolution, slow-core greats Codeine have announced their return. The original lineup of the group have just revealed plans to play at next May's All Tomorrow's Parties ...
Gucci Mane and TI [Photo: Courtesy] The use of codeine has been glamourized by many celebrities It goes without saying that Codeine seeped through the world through Hip-hop The mainstream use of ...
The powerful narcotic popped up on the cultural grid around the turn of the millennium. A Texas producer-remixer named DJ Screw paid homage to its woozy, heavy-lidded high by dramatically slowing down ...
Codeine covered Joy Division‘s ‘Atmosphere’ at their first show in 11 years, in tribute to Low’s late vocalist and drummer Mimi Parker. The band played a pair of shows at Union Pool in Brooklyn, in ...
When Codeine released the Frigid Stars LP in 1990, the New York City band single-handedly invented what would later — somewhat cloyingly — become known as "slowcore." Predating influential albums by ...