It’s impossible to deny the charm oozing out of Eric Peter Schwartz’s songs. But sometimes it’s a little too easy to capture my heart. The opening bars of “Tangerine,” the Troubadork‘s lead track, start off like your average folk song.…
This past Saturday I went to a lesbian dance party in Brooklyn. Bear with me. This will be relevant. At one point I turned to one of my friends and said “What [on earth] is this [sugar honey iced tea]?”…
I fell in love with Fire Mountain about a year ago. They’re finally ready to record their first full studio album and they need our help. Video and links below. Fire Mountain – Doing Fine from Fire Mountain on Vimeo.…
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…
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?…
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…
My kids are working on term papers, which means I’m spending most of my day and evenings editing them, which means just about the last thing I want to do is write a review. In the meantime, enjoy this new…
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…