It would be easy to lump Blitzen Trapper into alt-country along the lines of Wilco. While the similarities are there, Blitzen Trapper’s newest album American [...]
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BLITZEN TRAPPER – American Goldwingreviewed by Garrett Lyons
CYMBALS EAT GUITARS – Lenses Alienreviewed by Shawn Taggart
After their success of their 2009 album, Why There Are Mountains, Cymbals Eat Guitars went into the studio and recorded Lenses Alien, which took all [...]
WITCH MOUNTAIN – South Of Salemreviewed by Thomas Pizzola
It was 2001 when this Portland, Oregon-based doom crew released their last slice of riff-mongering, following the credo that they will release no doom before [...]
WILD FLAG – S/Treviewed by Patrick Hosken
Music chatters tend to toss the term “supergroup” around frequently without much thought. Monsters of Folk, The Dead Weather, Broken Bells — all technically supergroups, [...]
THE DEMON BEAT – Bullshit Walksreviewed by Patrick Hosken
Garage rock never goes out of style — just ask The Demon Beat, a trio of old school rockers from West Virginia. Piecing together a [...]
CHUCK RAGAN – Covering Groundreviewed by Josh Diamond
Some will know Chuck Ragan from his early career singing and playing guitar in post-hardcore band Hot Water Music. The Gainesville, Florida four-piece released seven [...]
TOM WAITS – Bad As Mereviewed by Paul J. Comeau
On Tom Waits’ latest release, Bad As Me, the many eras of his storied career seem to collide into one another and explode with overwhelming [...]
ROB CROW – He Thinks He’s Peoplereviewed by Josh Diamond
The third full-length solo album from Pinback front man Rob Crow sounds exactly like one might expect it to: like Pinback. Over the past decade, [...]
TOMMY STINSON – One Man Mutinyreviewed by Patrick Hosken
Former bassist for alternative heroes The Replacements and current bassist for Guns N’ Roses and Soul Asylum, Tommy Stinson now tackles a solo career that [...]
JEFFREY LEWIS – A Turn in the Dream-Songsreviewed by Patrick Hosken
Jeffrey Lewis isn’t going to be anyone’s indie folk hero like Conor Oberst or John Darnielle, but then again, he’s not trying to be. Lewis [...]
DAN ANDRIANO IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM – Hurricane Seasonreviewed by Sebastian Gahan
As I listen to Hurricane Season, a solo album from Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio, its gray and miserable outside and rain is falling. The [...]
CATHY HELLER – You’re Home to Mereviewed by Vanessa Bennett
Cathy Heller’s new EP, You’re Home to Me, is a sugary sweet anthem to love. Her bopping pop melodies are driven by simple and catchy [...]
THE COPYRIGHTS – North Sentinel Islandreviewed by Sebastian Gahan
Named after North Sentinel Island — a small island famous for being one of the last civilizations to be mapped, where all contact is resisted [...]
LA DISPUTE – Wildlifereviewed by Garrett Lyons
La Dispute’s album Wildlife chronicles the existential crisis of coming of age as a 20-something in the modern world. In other words, it sounds like [...]
BRETT DETAR – Bird in the Tanglereviewed by Josh Diamond
I can’t help but feel that I might like this album more if I had followed Brett Detar’s career since his time in The Juliana [...]
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