Woods: With Light And With Love
Woods: With Light and With Love – Woods are back with their follow-up to 2012’s Bend Beyond and all is right in the world. Renowned for their inability to not release a record every year, With Light...
View ArticleOdonis Odonis: Hard Boiled Soft Boiled
Odonis Odonis: Hard Boiled Soft Boiled – Have you heard the one about the sexually-unhinged shoegaze band who suffered a mid-life crisis and launched themselves into space? No? Well it’s called Hard...
View ArticleSpeedy Ortiz: Real Hair EP
Speedy Ortiz: Real Hair – Boston 4-piece Speedy Ortiz had quite the breakthrough in 2013 with their fuzzed-out and poignantly angst-ridden sophomore album, Major Arcana. It earned the band a healthy...
View ArticlePapercuts: Life Among The Savages
Papercuts: Life Among The Savages – “No one’s getting high… We’re still searching for the ground”, sings Papercuts’ Jason Robert Quever at the end of ‘Still Knocking at the Door’, the first track to...
View ArticleThe Antlers: Familiars
The Antlers: Familiars - “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” I know Ms. Angelou was talking...
View ArticleTame Impala: Live Versions
Tame Impala: Live Versions – Last October, I was lucky enough to catch an otherworldly Tame Impala and Flaming Lips show at Terminal 5 in NYC. Looking back, I remember Tame Impala’s relatively simple...
View ArticleChrome Sparks: Goddess EP
Chrome Sparks: Goddess EP- Well I never thought I’d hear a flexatone solo this week, but I’m very glad I did. Do you know how rare that is? This and many other musical surprises await the listener’s...
View ArticleSwans: To Be Kind
Swans: To Be Kind – You’d think that by this point a group that’s been around as long as Swans has would inevitably lose some of its magic. I’m sure Michael Gira’s decision to discontinue the...
View ArticleFoster the People: Supermodel
Foster the People: Supermodel – I’ll admit: I totally wrote Foster the People off after hearing ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ for the umpteenth time on just about every form of media imaginable. And then I caught...
View ArticleClap Your Hands Say Yeah: Only Run
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Only Run- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is one of those bands that maintains it’s strong sense of identity despite the responsibility of artists that singer Alec Ounsworth...
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