Stephen Mejias

Dudes! We're in Las Vegas. This town is bananas, all sex and smoke and blurry light, gambling and booze and deep fried foods.

If you like (or even if you don't like) the album version of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy," try this slow live jam.

Vol.17 No.10 (October 1994)

Vol.19 No.3 (March 1996)

Vol.20 No.9 (September 1997)

Vol.27 No.1 (January 2004)

Volcano Choir’s sophomore record, Repave, was released by Jagjaguwar on September 3rd. Justin Vernon of Bon Iver returns as lead vocalist.

I was disappointed by the band’s 2009 debut, Unmap, which felt more like a Bon Iver side project, made of fragments and sketches that promised greatness&#151and had some great moments&#151but rarely delivered the kind of focused and resolved songs that I had hope for. I liked Unmap, but I wanted to love it&#151and I didn’t.

Repave, though, is something different. If Unmap was the sound of a band finding its way, Repave is a band that has arrived, fully formed and full of joy. There’s an interesting story behind the making of Repave, which you can hear in this ten-minute documentary.