“Someday Miss You” is taken from Winter Clothes, the latest release from New York City-based singer-songwriter Brian Cullman. Tracked with a core band featuring Ollabelle’s Byron Isaacs and (also the Lumineers), Glenn Patscha, and the late Jimi Zhivago, the LP… Read More
Berlin’s Wolf & Moon are an indie-folk duo with a dream-pop streak. They call their sound “dream folk”, which is pretty dead on the mark. Their latest single “Eyes Closed” highlights this aspect as Wolf & Moon can create a… Read More
17th century England: King James II (Sam De Grasse) enjoys being entertained by his court jester, Barkilphedro (Brandon Hurst), who is a cruel and Machiavellian individual. It’s Barkilphedro who suggests that a rebel lord’s young son, Gwynplaine Clancharlie (Julius Molnar),… Read More
Landowner’s second LP, Consultant, is a beautiful bundle of chewed-raw nerves, with intensely geometric post-punk motifs providing the razor to scrape back and forth over them. Vocalist Dan Shaw fronts the western Massachusetts quintet, bizarrely obsessed with cleanliness, mechanics, and… Read More
The Cribs release new album Night Network in November and among the tracks is "I Don't Know Who I Am" which reunites the UK band with Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, who collaborated on "Be Safe" from 2007's Men's Needs, Women's Needs,… Read More
When not playing with The B-52's, Fred Schneider stays busy with his own group, The Superions, where he puts an electro-disco spin on his signature kitschy style. You can listen to The Superions "Head on a Leg" single, and their The Vertical… Read More
We lost The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie in 2017 but he left us with one final solo record that is now getting a posthumous release. Downie recorded the 10 songs on Away is Mine in July 2017, just a few… Read More
We in California are at the vanguard of things to come; climate change brings us years of record-breaking drought, waves of excessive heat and unprecedented fires, and as California Governor Newsome has stated in a 11 September 2020 press conference,… Read More
Over the past decade, underground club circuits around East and Southeast Asia have grown from a collection of fragmented markets to an integrated community that’s dedicated to supporting local talents. Projects such as bilateral DJ exchanges and regionally-focused record labels… Read More
One of the very big releases in heavy music today is the new Napalm Death album, which I reviewed in Notable Releases, and also the towering, noisy new Sumac album is out today. We also got new singles from Chrome… Read More