Category: Reviews

Here’s a short lesson, for the sake of an introduction. The United States, as evidenced by the recent presidential election, has turned blue. These…

“So much of what I pushed out once/ has returned after all these months,” Daniel Martin Moore sings over a strummed guitar on the…

Fugazi’s In On The Kill Taker or Repeater or Steady Diet of Nothing weren’t just records. They were heavenly bodies that boasted their own…

We all know what we mean when we say “lo-fi singer-songwriter,” right? There’s the obvious checklist: the do-it-yourself recording techniques, the fuzzy or half-amped…

If you don’t consider Songs for the Forgotten Future Vol. 2 one of the most anticipated new records of the year, well, you just…

Those who loved Taking Up Serpents Again, Curtis Eller’s excellent 2004 collection of banjo-driven Americana, pre-rock roots-folk and ragtime ruminations, need not tread cautiously…

Vacations is an appropriate title for David Wechsler’s first foray into the landscape of the solo artist, a record that’s as focused on traveling…

This is a soundtrack less in the sense of Ennio Morricone, perhaps, than Rachel’s Systems/Layers or Gastr del Sol’s Harp Factory on Lake Street,…

It figures I’d find a record like this only after compiling all those obligatory year-ending top 10 lists. Where have these guys been hiding?…

The first track from this LA quintet’s debut might be the most deceiving introduction to a record you’ll hear this year. Held together with…