New Age and ambient music have terrible connotations: bland, musical Nyquil. Moholy-Nagy shed those perceptions on their debut album, Like Mirage. The Berlin/San Francisco trio, [...]
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MOHOLY-NAGY – Like Miragereviewed by Peter Cauvel
THE BRAINS – Drunk Not Deadreviewed by Matt Edmund
Take the fury of slap bass-driven psychobilly and mix it with the crooning vocal styles found in the swing revival sound, and you wlll get [...]
OFFICE OF FUTURE PLANS – S/Treviewed by Peter Cauvel
J. Robbins is a legend. After playing bass in the DC punk band Government Issue, he went on to front seminal post-hardcore groups like Jawbox [...]
CLASSICS OF LOVE – S/Treviewed by Christopher Connal
Classics of Love consist of the California band Hard Girls (with Mike Huguenor on guitar, Morgan Herrell on bass, and Max Feshbach on drums), fronted [...]
THE PLANET SMASHERS – Descent Into The Valley Of The Planet Smashersreviewed by Matt Edmund
It has been six years since Canada’s own The Planet Smashers released their last album, Unstoppable. With their newest effort, Descent into the Valley of [...]
POP. 1280 – The Horrorreviewed by Thomas Pizzola
There is something rotten going on in New York City, and luckily for us, noise rockers Pop. 1280 are there to chronicle the bad times. [...]
LOW ROAR – S/Treviewed by Garrett Lyons
Former Audrye Sessions frontman Ryan Karazija’s solo debut album is one that could easily be described in glittering generalities: “beautiful,” “stunning,” and “marvelous” are all [...]
ROBIN BACIOR – Rest Our Wingsreviewed by Vanessa Bennett
Rest Our Wings, the latest LP from the northern California singer-songwriter Robin Bacior, opens with beautiful piano chords and whimsical harmonies. Unlike many of her [...]
BOBBY – S/Treviewed by Patrick Hosken
A band called BOBBY might suggest sunny, non-threatening three-minute indie-pop. That’s not the case for this New England collection of assorted instrumenteers, though BOBBY’s experimental [...]
BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH – Defender, Redeemistreviewed by Thomas Pizzola
It has been said that a band shouldn’t put out their own material unless it’s really good and that people will want it. In the [...]
STEVE SHIFFMAN & THE LAND OF NO – Nemegt Uulreviewed by Dan Chapman
One of few bands that are a staple of that fuzz-filled Wilco sound, Steve Shiffman and his band create a small EP that highlights a [...]
V/A – We Are The Works In Progressreviewed by Patrick Hosken
Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino was born in Japan, a country still mending from last year’s tragic tsunami and earthquake. Her heart still in her homeland, [...]
THE LOOM – Teethreviewed by Garrett Lyons
The Loom is a Brooklyn-based quintet with an incredibly unique sound. The elements range from the chamber pop nature of Belle and Sebastian with heavy [...]
NIGHTLIGHTS – So It Goesreviewed by Garrett Lyons
So It Goes is a record that is not the easiest thing to jump into. At various points, it seems to shift from trying to be [...]
THE HAPPY PROBLEM – Head Casereviewed by Sebastian Gahan
Problems are rarely “happy,” but in this case it’s a surefire exception. This album from the New York City-based band fronted by former folk singer [...]
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