The Bandcamp page for Kory Quinn’s Home of the Brave is pretty sparse — just a list of all the musicians and artists on the album. Deservedly so: this album more than speaks for itself. Quinn has really outdone himself…
It’s — a review? Back on the old Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule? Let’s see what happens! Speaking of blasts from the past, I last heard from Anthony Presti back in 2015 with his charming album Clarity in Hindsight. There are…
A couple weeks ago I tipped you off to Left Arm Tan’s forthcoming album. The album marks the band’s 10th anniversary, and it also finds them in their best form. Left Arm Tan (yes, it’s self-titled, but by no means…
Western culture really likes to catalog things. Scientific taxonomies, historical periods, gender, music genres. It’s comforting to think that it’s possible to list and organize everything in the world. But nature isn’t like that — and neither is Mercy Bell’s…
Before the year closes out, I’d be criminally negligent in not writing up Lavender Country’s Blackberry Rose. Lavender Country, a loose collective headed up by Patrick Haggerty, released their first album, Lavender Country, in 1973. It’s the first known queer…