PROFILE: David Grubbs of Squirrel Bait November 6, 2014 Before Louisville was associated with Palace, though after, I suppose, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled its seedy decadence during the Derby, there was Squirrel Bait, a… Continue Reading
PROFILE: Chris Besinger of STNNNG (2014) November 6, 2014 Let’s try, okay, to be objective for a moment. STNNNG, a Minneapolis art-punk quintet with its heart on its sleeve and a roar in… Continue Reading
INTERVIEW: Curtis Eller November 6, 2014 Curtis Eller, banjo-picker extraordinaire, presents listeners with a quintessentially American cause celeb. Few work harder to drum up and rally a crowd with their… Continue Reading
Profile: The Wingdale Community Singers (2010) May 17, 2010 Spirit Duplicator, the second record from Brooklyn quartet the Wingdale Community Singers, begins with an enticing simulacrum—not a chord strummed on an acoustic guitar… Continue Reading
Profile: The ‘Antique-Garde’ Songwriters of New York City (2010) May 17, 2010 “The future’s eternally bankrupt but history provides” Winter was hard on New York City. February 27, a Saturday, started before dawn for Erik Della… Continue Reading
Profile: Robin Aigner (2010) May 17, 2010 Robin Aigner, a vintage dress and boots extending her pint-sized frame, remains in control of the Living Room’s standing-room crowd as the music swirls… Continue Reading
Profile: Nonagon (2009) June 4, 2009 Originally published in Delusions of Adequacy June 1, 2009 Nonagon’s songs have a way of popping, no, better yet, of exploding out of stereo… Continue Reading
Profile: Pinataland (2004) April 11, 2008 You wouldn’t know it from listening to their unique and breathtaking debut – a collection of endearing history portraits and sometimes-elegiac narratives titled Songs… Continue Reading
Profile: Bonni Evensen from Snowy (2003) March 8, 2008 For those looking for the surface of life to imitate art, I’m sorry to report that Bonni Evensen, the singer-songwriter behind the atmospheric pop… Continue Reading
Profile: Vital Cog’s Steve Stone (2003) March 8, 2008 Let’s cut through the static. Who are the voices worth listening to in indie rock? Well, push aside the soundbyte-spewing iconoclasts and the photogenic… Continue Reading
