What do you do when you’re a British ex-pat killing time in a subarctic, Northern Chinese factory city? Why, you build a diddley bo out of a skateboard, distort the living fuck out of it, and start a punk rock…
I hope you’ll forgive me. I’ve done a terrible thing. I didn’t tell you about Ben Trickey’s new album, Rising Waters. To say that it’s one of my favorite albums of the year should mean a lot, because it’s been…
And now for something completely different: jazz pop. Whuuuu? You ask, and that’s kind of what I said when Sarah Marie Young’s music was described to me. But it fits. The lady’s got pipes that are too robust for your…
Continuing in our series of music videos (ie, I’ve got too many lesson plans to write and friends to see), my favorite band from Kansas City, the Grisly Hand, has a new, tasty video for its ’90stastic roots-pop single, “That’s…
The pulsing rhythms on Fists of Violets‘ titular track are enough to make you acknowledge that Sarah Alden is, indeed, one of a kind. Alden, hailing from the only metropolis in this great country worthy of the title*, deftly combines…
Better grab a coat, because New Country Rehab’s The Ghost of Your Charms is really damn bleak.* It’s easy to see why the Canadian government helped foot the bill to record this album. (Wouldn’t it be nice if our government…
Last week, Chicago’s Falldown (who I couldn’t stop gushing over back in December) recently released a music video for their dreamy “I Will Go.” Falldown is comprised of members of The Redwalls, Safe Haven, and The Hue If you can’t…
No joke, Scott Cook’s One More Time Around brought a few tears to my eye. We listen to music because it either gives us Feelings or helps us process the Feelings we have. But great musics takes those Feelings and…