A Few We Missed, Vol. 5 – “1 Verse” from Seattle band Society of the Silver Cross (released 6/28/2019)
The received wisdom as to why we traipse around the evolving landscape of so-called popular/rock music...
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A Few We Missed, Vol. 4 & 4.1 – the black watch’s “Magic Johnson” and “31 Years of Obscurity: The Best of the black watch 1988-2019” (both released on ATOM Records, 06/21/2019)
A while back I tried to divorce myself from all writerly activities that fell outside the... -
A Few We Missed, Vol. 3 – “The Big Sleep: Future” by Golden Ghost (released 08/16/2019)
One seldom encounters a young label that exhibits quite the exacting, carefully curated aesthetic as has... -
A Few We Missed, Vol. 2 – David Norland “Glam Tear Stain” (released 11/1/2019)
Beyond earning 2019’s runaway best-album-title-of-the-year award (how many of you out there just flinched with envy,... -
A Few We Missed, Vol. 1 – SALT “The Loneliness of Clouds” (released 06/07/2019)
Posit the Posies’ Ken Stringfellow (as both performer and producer), quirk pop maestro Anton Barbeau, and... -
The Brutal Beauty Of Self-Reflection: Greet Death’s New Hell
What is Hell exactly? Is it a torturous realm that one is sentenced to after a... -
Pastiche-less Pop Perfection – Beat Hotel’s Luminous Self-Titled Debut
The great thing about great songwriters/bands is the way they can extract the most salient essences... -
Curling With Adrenaline – Comet Gain Return with “Fireraisers, Forever!”
What do you do when you unexpectedly find a copy of a new Comet Gain album... -
A Funk-Drenched, Soulbeat Album for the Ages – “The Fruit Basket” from Trenton NJ’s Solid Bronze
If you’re of a certain vintage (and, to be straight up honest, of a certain historically... -
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A Lucid Career Put to Restless Rest – “Deciduous Eccentric” by Stephen Hero [including interview with Patrick Fitzgerald]
Born poignant. It can’t be possible, it isn’t possible, and in fact, as a concept, it...