Great Peacock AND Quiet Hollers
Great Peacock wowed me about two years ago with their first EP. It takes a lot for a song to sear itself into my psyche for that long, but “Take Me to the Mountain” and “Desert Lark” have done just…
Category New Music
The Deer Run Drifters — Restless Youth
The Deer Run Drifters’s sophomore album opens with the lines Young and dumb… Not good at much But fucking up It could be another album about crying in your cups (it is) but it’s not the usual gravely sad-sack guy…
VIDEO: Freddy Jones Band — “Those Diamonds”
If you’re ready for a break from the typical sad bastard song club fare, the Freddy Jones Band has a nice spring song for you. If “Those Diamonds” made you dance in your seat a little bit and you live…
Eric Peter Schwartz AND Campfest!
You may remember Eric Peter Schwartz as the guy with the delightful love song centered around Dungeons & Dragons. I was expecting more of the same on Schwartz’s latest release, Casual Ghosts. While Schwartz offers humble, humorous ditties like “Hot…
Speaker of the Dead — The Ballad of the Undercrust
God damn it. I’m in love with Gregory McKillop. But I already told you that. Speaker of the Dead was Greg’s punk rock brass band. Don’t worry, it works. The backing band gives a sense of monumental urgency to the…