Rachel Cholst

Rachel Cholst

In Snow — ef.fort

Holy wow. In Snow’s EP is difficult to describe, though I know that’s kind of the point of you reading this. They describe themselves as an instrumental orchestral rock and that’s pretty much what you get, just minus the pretension…

Fire Mountain — All Dies Down

I’m glad that Fire Mountain found a home for its latest record, All Dies Down. You may remember I tried to get you guys to throw some money at the band a few weeks back. I was unsuccessful and the…

The Sometime Boys — Riverbed

It’s easy to understand why the Sometime Boys don’t have the reputation they so justly deserve. They’re just kinda weird, yaknow? Is anyone else writing pseudo-reggae roots songs like “Pharaoh”? Or the meandering ballad “Fake Girlfriend?” Last time around I…

EdTang and the Chops — EdTang and the Chops

Ed Tang has all the right ingredients for a fantastic album: raspy voice, just the right mix of distortion and acoustic guitars, and some choice literary references (Catch-22 and Death of a Salesman are two of my favorite 20th century…