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Forward motion: Maintenance and Nate Parrish review
April 15, 2022
Nate Parrish – Life in Dissonance
Genre: Punk, Pop Punk
Similar artists: Social Distortion, Face to Face, Hot Water Music
Lives are so easily destroyed. For some, it happens in the blink of an eye. Others are destroyed piece by piece, day by day. There are…
Sonic Medicine – The Fever
Genre: Progressive Rock, Post Rock, Math Rock
Similar artists: Morphine, Screaming Trees
It takes a lot of work and energy to sound positively ruined, or on a fast track to reach that status. This is why I don’t really trust…
How d’you burn: Judy Blank and Adam Yas review
April 15, 2022
Adam Yas – Wild Horse Sun
Genre: Post-Punk, Indie Folk, Folk rock
Similar artists: Elbow, Flaming Lips, Depeche Mode, Neil Young, Bon Iver, Puscifer, David Bowie, Neil Diamond, Queen
It’s nearly impossible to find a really great artist without a bit of…
Softly spoken: Lady Friend and Old Pup review
April 14, 2022
Old Pup – Screen Crawlers
Genre: Indie Folk, Folk, Americana
Similar artists: Sam Doores, Chris Acker, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Grateful Dead, Erin Rae, Buffalo Nichols
Modern movie directors, or at least their music supervisors, are always on the lookout for…
Rains all day: Amacio Favor and No One Sphere review
April 14, 2022
No One Sphere – Twin Coasts
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock
People in alternative-rock bands are, usually, either those for whom everything in life comes easily, or those for whom breaks never come at all. They’re extreme in their ideas because their…
Straight up and down: Bleach Kings and Lee Sama reviewed
April 14, 2022
Lee Sama – Lace Up
Genre: Lo-fi Rock, Indie Rock, Garage Rock
Similar artists: Cate Le Bon, Juan Wauters, Kevin Morby, White Fence, Oh Sees, Harlem
Bands back in the 1960s seemed to have it all figured out. Just like the proverbial man of simple needs that…
Dominique – Help Me Decide
Genre: Bedroom / Lo-fi Pop, Psychedelic / Freak Folk, Art Rock
Similar artists: Laurie Anderson, Sinead O’Connor, Angel Olsen, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Kath Bloom, Nico, Jane Sibery
Make no mistake about it, women, for the most…
Lightway: Ernan en VHS and Night Rites review
April 8, 2022
Night Rites – Dark Patterns
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Alternative Rock
Similar artists: The Black Angels, A Place to Bury Strangers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Cult of Dom Keller
Strange American cults have done almost as much for the music as two or three…
Big deep parade: Hill Top Swim Club and TRSH review
April 6, 2022
TRSH – Puckerup Buttercup
Genre: Math Rock, Emo, Alternative Rock
Similar artists: Hot mulligan, mom jeans, pool kids, chon, into it over it
In many ways, emo-math-rockers are punk-rockers with less interest in fashion. And, although their influences have been…