FMSea- Static
If cooler heads prevail, this’ll weather the coldest fronts. Continue Reading »
REVIEWS
If cooler heads prevail, this’ll weather the coldest fronts. Continue Reading »
Pujol – Nasty, Brutish, And Short
Daniel Pujol is a Nashville musician with a fine punk spirit, pursuing a masters in global affairs through the University of Denver. Continue Reading »
Eamon McGrath – Young Canadians
Coming on slow and soft to start, Eamon McGrath’s new disc Young Canadians is all over the map musically. Continue Reading »
Grand Duchy – Let the People Speak
This sophomore release from the poppy husband-wife project of ever-prolific Black Francis and Violet Clark got right on top of me. Continue Reading »
BOYS WHO SAY NO – Contingencies
Boys Who Say No’s Contingencies is sewn together in an indie angst fashion, embedded with a sense of urgency, general dissatisfaction and lo-fi fun. Continue Reading »
Hillbilly Highway – Overnight to Albuquerque
by Sheldon Birnie
With the news a couple weeks back that Neil Young & Crazy Horse will be releasing a new album, titled Americana, a wave of excitement began to build inside of me. While I’m a big fan of much of Neil’s overall oeuvre, for me his work with Crazy Horse stands above and beyond his other collaborations, and beside or beyond his best solo work. This is real exciting news out here on the Hillbilly Highway, friends. Big time. Continue Reading »
Cloud Nothings – Attack on Nothing
For most bands, creating a nine minute track (here, “Wasted Days”) that only has approximately 45 words and is mostly instrumental would seem overly indulgent. Continue Reading »
BROTHERS – These Limbs; Our Firewood
I had totally forgotten about music like this somewhere between my copies of At The Drive-In, Japandroids, Pretty Girls Make Graves and Fugazi, Continue Reading »
A Name Unheard – Human
This eight tune offering from young Vancouver based rockers is a tight unit. Continue Reading »
Lafidki / Orphan | Oliver – split LP
My friends in Belarus just met Saphy Vong of Lafidki and had this to say: “[Vong] is utterly crazy; we enjoyed talking to him about his music, which [Simptom Pogremushki] described as Cambodian New Year.” Continue Reading »
