INDIE POP

There’s something about deep, bass-heavy, musical thwack. It doesn’t matter how much one knows about house and all its micro-shoots, or whether they can speak to 1990s-era hip-hop producers such as Pete Rock or Easy Mo- Bee, sample-based geniuses who… Read More

A Swedish singer and songwriter Elin Wolf has just released both a musically and lyrically heartrending single with an enigmatic title “Nighttrain to Yosemite.”Following her previous release “Truth Worth a Fight”,  Elin continues to please us all with her unique… Read More

Have you ever seen the paintings of English Romantic painter William Turner? He would turn a churning sea into a maelstrom of colors, the London’s polluted landscape into spiraling fog hues and tints, and the splendor of past civilizations into… Read More

Jim White’s latest LP, Misfit’s Jubilee, arrives on 30 October via Fluff & Gravy Records and features many of White’s hallmarks. Meditations on the American South, touches of heartbreak and laughter, and novelistic portraits carried out in the narrow spaces… Read More

Publishing academic books about the problems in the academy has become a flourishing, self-perpetuating field in recent years. There’s no shortage of texts speculating on what’s wrong with the academy and how it can be fixed. Some, of course, are… Read More

Abortion is under threat again, there’s a sex offender in the Oval Office, and countless studies reveal the glaring underrepresentation of women in the North American music industry (comprising less than one-third of performers and 12.5 percent of songwriters, according… Read More

The term “ambient country” – applied to artists like SUSS, Mute Duo, and Labradford, among others – is meant to describe a musical style that is rich in contradiction. The spacey atmosphere of ambient music is traditionally married to synthesizers,… Read More

For an album recorded entirely on a USB microphone in various Brooklyn apartments, Sotto Voce’s Your Husband, the Governor sounds, at least at the very beginning, exactly how you might expect it to: with rough-hewn, folky acoustic guitar, full-throated lead… Read More

Chapter Four: Where the Wild Things Are: Humans, Animals, and Children Where the Wild Things Are And let’s not forget the wolves. I insist on the forgetting as much as on the wolves and the genelycology because what we should… Read More