Category: Reviews

There’s two distinct sets of ears that listeners or aficionados of surf-rock can bring to Gary Hoey’s Monster Surf, a collection of 14 genre…

Before I even dropped the debut release from The Great Shakes into my CD player, I imagined how much fun I could have with…

Last year, while many drooled over the latest offering from The Strokes, The Great Shakes were busy touring their hearts out and proving they…

A lot’s happened to The Great Shakes since the group released its three-song In the Ballroom EP back in 2003. Two drummers. A new…

Ben Folds told indie musicians, their fingers sore from scraping guitar frets all those years, that it was, indeed, okay to pound the keys…

I have something I need to push off my chest. I hated the 1980’s. There, I said it. I absolutely hated that never-ending, god-awful…

Ask Jesus Christ, Euclid, or John Ritter and they’ll tell you: there’s something intrinsically welcoming and powerful about the number three. The Canadian post-rock…

Call it an inviting contradiction. In the early- to mid-1990s, a handful of singer/songwriters began experimenting to much-deserved acclaim with the emotional immediacy and…

Asahi’s Head Above Water may be more fittingly titled Head Above Air. The debut full-length from the Seattle sextet is often a statement in…

If his work with The Bus Stop Label is any indication — and I get the feeling that it is — Andrew Sandoval must…