Exhausted Pipes — New Dust
Exhausted Pipes brings an intriguing blend of folk pop and Americana grit to their whopper of an album. Clocking in at 14 tracks and roughly an hour, the band covers lots of ground in New Dust. Exhausted Pipes proves its…
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HVMM — Talk To Me Like I’m Dead
You look like you could use some gothic Americana nu-metal. Think Murder By Death but, like, really serious and with some guitar slayage. “Lacerate,” the first track off the band’s new EP, calls to mind the Black Keys tearing through…
Hayley Thompson-King — Psychotic Melancholia
Inspired by her youthful days in Clowns for Christ, Hayley Thompson-King presents her “Sodom and Gomorrah concept album,” Psychotic Melancholia. As metal as that sounds, these are in fact the basic ingredients for a rich and complex “psychedelic country” album. …
Rocky Bottom — American Man
I really, really wanted Rocky Bottom to be the nom de plume of a militant queer folk punk singer by the consolation prize — a collection of smart songs delivered with charm to spare by Alex Hernandez — is excellent.…
WATCH A MOVIE: The Shopkeeper
There’s no question that the music industry is flailing — now even the streaming giants like Spotify and Pandora that destabilized things in the first are becoming victims of their own success and record companies are beginning to gain the…