The Pharmacy, recent New Orleans transplants from Seattle, sounds like a synthy Guided By Voices after a gallon of coffee and a summer nursing a dangerous harpsichord fetish - a throwback to the indie-rock of yore, where smiles abounded and jammy freak-outs were pogo-ready affairs.
Rising out of the ashes of The Terror-Dactyls in 2002, The Pharmacy have kept its two-man nucleus somehow intact along the way. The group supported Juno freak-folker Kimya Dawson on her 2005 tour, helping sol
The best thing about digging around thrift-store CD bins is discovering someone else's cast-offs. The records that people got sick of, or had absolutely no regard for how awesome it could be. Months back, a wife seemingly threw out her husband's entire punk-rock collection during routine housecleaning, and I found a trove of Sex Pistols bootleg discs and an inordinate amount of mid-'80s TVT Records releases. It was a fun and brooding ride back home.
This past week, I discovered
