Feature: Holy Hell – “Very Soon, and In Pleasant Company” is 20! February 8, 2021 In a word, precision. The three years that separate Rodan’s Rusty (1994) from the Shipping News debut Save Everything (1997) gave Jeff Mueller and Jason Noble, the Louisville-bred… Continue Reading
Review: WiiRMZ – “Faster Cheaper” July 8, 2020 The joyfully bombastic quartet WiiRMZ hail from the same city that defined (and arguably invented) post-rock in the 1990s with bands such as Slint and Rodan…. Continue Reading
Review: Ryan Rumery – “And, Apart” March 24, 2020 Multi-instrumentalist Ryan Rumery’s emotive music always has traded in a kind of nuance, with even his most emphatic statements – which often are bookmarked… Continue Reading
Profile: Rachel Grimes (2019) October 7, 2019 It starts, appropriately, by rolling on the seams of piano keys. “There is something/ got ahold of me/ and it won’t let go,” the… Continue Reading
Review: Rodan – “The Hat Factory ’93” April 5, 2019 If Rodan’s Rusty is the butterfly on its ripe-peach-hued cover, the newly released ’93 recordings are the budding chrysalis. And they are something to… Continue Reading
Review: Christian Frederickson – “Islands of Light” November 2, 2018 There’s this piece of ephemera from the days of the Rachel’s ensemble that sticks to the attic of my mind like so much setting… Continue Reading
Review: Big Weather – “The Lightest Darkness” April 10, 2018 Well, turns out climate change – for those rational people who agree with the science behind it – might not be all bad, after… Continue Reading
Review: Rachel Grimes – “Eights” December 5, 2017 Composer/pianist Rachel Grimes orchestrates a soundscape of wonder on “Eights,” a digital one-off also available on the compilation accompanying Oxford American’s new edition on… Continue Reading
PROFILE: King G and The J Krew October 10, 2017 Twenty five years ago today, the beat was born. It was the sound of young adults from Louisville – a sprawling collection of collaborators,… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Christian Frederickson, Jason Noble and Ryan Rumery – “The Painted Bird / Amidst” January 24, 2017 I cannot stop listening to The Painted Bird / Amidst, a carefully self-released affair that is, without question, the most riveting and enveloping record… Continue Reading
