A small grab bag of odds and ends today. First up is Tapes & Tubes’ latest release, Man in the Window. As always, the three tracks create a mystical atmosphere that is slightly creepy (Austin Potter’s hoarse sing-whisper half-submerged in…
Lest you decry the infiltration of synthesizers in all walks of music, it appears that punk is not dead in the Twin Cities. Nervous Breakthroughs is four songs by four different bands, and each offers a fresh take on a…
Recorded music makes standards a funny thing. Songs themselves don’t really need to stand the test of time anymore — until we reach that point of technological no return like Zion in The Matrix, it’s safe to assume that we…
I have conflicting advice to give you on this one. If you’ve never listened to a Glossary album before, I’m tempted to see you should drop everything you’re doing and listen to Long Live All of Us. If anyone tries…
My therapist (and I guess other people in my life) often tells me I’m too hard on myself. That may be the case, but after listening to Hawk and Steel’s Anywhere But Here, I wonder if that’s maybe a trait…