We’ve had lots of folks sending in emails asking when we’ll be arriving in Austin for SXSW, and that picture up above pretty much describes what our replies are.  If the incredible decline in content over the last couple of weeks hasn’t communicated it, perhaps the sad face will.  We’re pretty swamped over here, but [...]

I don’t have to say much about our deep institutional love for Dr. Dog at this point.  I’m about as excited for their soon to be released ANTI debut, Shame, Shame as I am for any other record this year.  The first taste of the record bodes well.  “Shadow People” is a little less ornate [...]

(Editor’s note:  I like seasons.  I like being able to understand the passing of time through changes in temperature and foliage.  This is one of the reasons I still live in Cleveland.  Move to Florida and you lose sight of the fact that time is moving forward; how can your primordial brain measure temporal progress [...]

(Editor’s note: I’m feeling strangely nostalgic this Lazy Saturday, more prone to looking back than forward.  We’ve been hitting you with bands that you ought to pay attention to over the last few weeks in this forum (Young Buffalo, Heliotropes, AIDS Wolf and so on), but this week I just want to revel in the [...]

It’s been a pretty hectic week for me here at Citizen Dick’s Chicago outpost.  Between cracking down on the job search, scrambling to find a new apartment before the first, and preparing to get my birthday on this weekend I haven’t had a whole lot of time to listen to new music.  As such, today’s [...]

We’ve got a confession.  We were holding back this morning.  We’ve got a killer snippet of audio from the Dr. Dog show last night.  Why didn’t we post it this morning?  Why did we post 1100 some odd words on the show and leave out the five minutes of sound that perfectly distill what this [...]

Spring Break came with impeccable timing this year. Brian and I both filled our briefcases full of student homework, shuffled out of the school doors and entered break with a little Dr. Dog and Golden Boots on the brain. Fate was on our top album list in 2008, and Winter of our Discotheque was one [...]

We’re switching it up a bit on you for the next five tracks we loved from 2008.  The first five all came from albums we did not hit in our notable 2008 records list.  Today, we present our favorite tracks from some of those notable records.  There were some disagreements in the citizendick offices on [...]