Tideland — Lull

Tideland certainly caught my ear. I owe the band an apology for a relatively short review. I’m just at a loss for words as to what to say. Tideland’s fuzz punk is spacy, dreamy, and unearthly. My English teacher once…

Careless Hearts — Alum Rock

Alum Rock starts off conventionally enough — jangly guitars and drums. But the first couplet is a little jarring: We’re like potatoes in a basement With tendrils growing in every direction Uh…what? I thought this was a pop rock song?…

Hank Woji — Holy Ghost Town

Sometimes you just need a bread-and-butter, honest-to-God country song. No tricks, no affectations, no superbly hidden self-consciousness. Sometimes, you just need a song. For those times, Hank Woji is your man. Though a Jersey native, Woji’s clearly in his element…

The Abramson Singers — Late Risers

I sat on Late Risers for a while. Too long, really. As a listener, I enjoy digging into an artists lyrics, thinking about what the song means, imagining what inspired it. But in The Abramson Singers’ latest album, the lyrics…

The Show Ponies — We’re Not Lost

Normally a band’s album should speak for itself. But if this video of the Show Ponies performing the duet “Whiskey and Wine” doesn’t win you over, you’re dead to humanity. Most of the songs are a little slower, a little…

Niva the Soul Diva — Unrivaled

A lot of people like to describe this blog as eclectic. I guess that’s true — I feel like it’s all pretty much spun from the same cloth. I do my best to ensure that there’s diversity here — not…

Chad Kichula — The Whale’s Back

When you have a singing voice like Chad Kichula, you have a moral obligation to sing country. Unfortunately, that hasn’t always been easy for Mr. Kichula; as the owner and laborer in a forestry company located somewheres up north, Kichula’s…