At your own pace: Holy Ship and Commons 2 review
June 25, 2022
Commons 2 – Speak (One More)
Similar artists: Stephen Malkmus, Blur
Genre: Indie Rock, Garage Rock
Success is often measured by how close you manage to get to the records set by the people that have already proven themselves in a certain field. Sure, this…
Bring ‘em back alive: Sisteria and Junket review
June 25, 2022
Junket – Embers to Ashes
Similar artists: Incubus, Deftones, Story of the Year, Lostprophets, Chevelle, Breaking Benjamin, A Day To Remember
Genre: Hard Rock, Alternative Rock
The fact that pop music is extremely flexible, plastic, and easy to rearrange is a…
Ram Vela & the Easy Targets – Pick Up Where I Left Off
Genre: Pop Rock, Garage Rock, Alternative Rock
Similar artists: Fountains of Wayne, Superdrag, Cheap Trick, Rozwell Kid, Teenage Fanclub, Big Star
There are types of music that function as a simple…
The Limiñanas – La Musique
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock
Similar artists: Serge Gainsbourg, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Night Beats, Moon Duo, Psychic Ills, The Black Angels
Rock music used to tease us about the kind of people we could virtually…
Caregiver – Reason
Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Similar artists: Phoebe Bridgers, Faye Webster, Mazzy Star
In sports, regularly, it takes years and years for records to be broken by a single person. After that, however, the same record that has stood as an…
Shiny hooks: Andrew Adkins and Liv Slingerland
June 19, 2022
Liv Slingerland – Hey You
Genre: Indie Rock
Similar artists: Halsey, Olivia Rodrigo, Ani DiFranco, Lauren Ruth Ward, Alex Lahey
Highly proficient-executed pop music can’t really be enjoyed while it is being made. Not, at least, if you are one of the serious…
In a state: Common Goldfish and Dennis Ian
June 16, 2022
Dennis Ian – Two Figures
Similar artists: Black Country, New Road, Bright Eyes, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Americana, Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
Singing and what you look like don’t matter in the grand, old tradition of making pop music. That’s, at…
West Wickhams – This circus is over
Genre: Post-Punk, Gothic / Dark Wave, Indie Rock
The so-called post-punk bands always had a knack for finding a problem and then exploiting it to its limit in the form of a song. Sure, this was something that the original punk…
Well Dressed Spirits – Salt in the air
Similar artists: Jason Isbell, Shovels and Rope, Turnpike Troubadors
You can’t really have a winning football team (that’s soccer to our North American readers) without a few South Americans, preferably Brazilians. I…