Review: Pan-American – “The Patience Fader” March 3, 2022 There’s something deceptively airy about a Pan American record. Mark Nelson of Labradford, under whom the project has long operated, creates highly textured, atmospheric, and low-pulse guitar… Continue Reading
Review: Perennial – “In the Midnight Hour” February 21, 2022 Listeners will get about ten seconds into Perennial’s In the Midnight Hour, the guitar feedback swirling defiantly and menacingly, before the Connecticut-based art punks drop… Continue Reading
Review: Urge Overkill – “Oui” February 21, 2022 As “comeback records” go, the new Urge Overkill LP is pretty matter-of-fact about its conceits and very plain about its intentions. Oui is Urge Overkill’s first… Continue Reading
Review: Glenn Echo – “Ellenville Sessions” February 15, 2022 After a dozen or so listens, “Moon Seems Lost”, a romantic and sometimes-unassuming ballad, started ascending as the finest tune off Glenn Echo’s 2021… Continue Reading
Review: Stomatopod – “Competing with Hindsight” February 15, 2022 Talk about a Covid-19 record. Think back, way back, to November 2020, that first year of the pandemic, when everything was fingering a fresh… Continue Reading
Review: David Allred – “Driving Through The Aftermath of a Storm on a Clear Day” February 15, 2022 David Allred’s Driving Through the Aftermath of a Storm on a Clear Day is a strange, enveloping little record. Meditative to a T, the LP’s 11… Continue Reading
Matt Gaydar talks Glenn Echo project, pandemic, LP#2 February 3, 2022 Matt Gaydar isn’t going to let something as simple as a global pandemic slow him down. The acoustic singer-songwriter – who is thickly bearded,… Continue Reading
Feature: Five Years Later – Best Music of 2016 January 20, 2022 David Bowie – Blackstar [Columbia/RCA/ISO] Mankind has been flirting with its own mortality since the beginning of time – but leave it to David… Continue Reading
Review: Bill Callahan/Bonnie Prince Billy – “Blind Date Party” January 10, 2022 The song begins with a guitar line wonderfully characteristic of post-rock guru David Grubbs, mellifluous and storied. Then, Will Oldham enters like a specter,… Continue Reading
Review: Feral Vices – “With Offerings” December 20, 2021 Feral Vices, a guitar-and-drum alt-rock duo from Louisville, make catchy, Spotify-ready rock anthems underlined with fist-pumping grooves and more than a fair share of… Continue Reading
