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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 is a Brooklyn-based quintet with an incredibly unique sound. The elements range from the chamber pop nature of Belle and Sebastian with heavy [...]
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 [...]