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The Breeders – Fate To Fatal EP
As far as I’m concerned, The Breeders are the reigning champions of the two-minute pop song. I wasn’t quite certain before, but this new EP solidified their rightful place on the pedestal in my head. Opening song “Fate to Fatal” exuberantly joins the ranks of previous solid gold pop masterstrokes...
Dananananaykroyd – Hey Everyone
Party. Just fucking party. Big balloons and blue palms from high-fiving so hard your teeth rattle and so fucking frequently it’s a wonder there’s a friend left who would ever dare come within striking distance of your wild and frothing élan. Bikini dream it. Like the Van Halen days with...
Silversun Pickups – Swoon
Smooth but raw, vast but intimate, dark, driving and compelling – Silversun Pickups’ newest release Swoon takes what we miss about 90’s grunge, combines it with what we don’t hate about today’s pop-rock and churns an utterly compelling album. Filled with moody tones and paranoia-inspired tracks such as ‘The Royal...
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
I don’t understand this place, this time but in a hundred years I know that I will be ash, at my best. Cold mending rot and soil somewhere forgotten by the kin that never came to keep me, if our long tradition persists. But that’s then, isn’t it? And in...
NOFX – Coaster
NOFX Coaster Who ever said Punk was dead?!…oh yeah, I did…except for NOFX. One of the only bands that has managed to walk the razorblade dichotomy of ‘successful punk’ album after album while staying true to what punk should represent. The very idea of being punk is to be...
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears – Tell Em What Your Name Is
Austin’s got soul baby, but you already knew that, from W.C. Clark to Janis Joplin. Texas now has a fresh face along with a new attitude. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, lead by the explosive showmen Black Joe Lewis, and backed by a tight seven-piece. This young acclaimed band...
Preslav Literary School – Beautiful Was the Time
A soft scatter from static and the voice loops, determined to be heard among the din and chirping birds. The wails of strangers hum in other rooms. Holy places, perhaps. Alchemists bleeding life into their sullen gold mourning as if that sacrifice might shed some magic into the mosaic of...
Zero Boys – Vicious Circle
As much as I love hardcore punk, good lord it all sounds the same. And while one could argue that Zero Boys have a different perspective and take on the genre since they sprouted out of Indianapolis, a place where there was virtually no punk scene to speak of, as...
