The Bevis Frond Little Eden Fire Records Many listeners who are not so familiar with Nick Saloman, aka The Bevis Frond, may wonder why he has such a staunch and unwavering [...]
Saint Etienne I’ve Been Trying To Tell You Heavenly Recordings If you’ve ever taken Saint Etienne at face value, a very good electro pop band, you would [...]
Nico Hedley Painterly Whatever’s Clever Records How do you combine the countrified ramblings of one George Jones and wide excursions everywhere, particularly into jazzy [...]
Opus Orange Object Lessons Emoto Music Opus Orange is one Paul Bessenbacher and the ‘indie-rock’ Santa Monica, CA collective gathered around his ideas. That [...]
Dakota Jones Black Light Lord Please Records When you love old-fashioned blues and soul and want to refresh them for the tastes that are prevalent today, you really have a [...]
The Furious Seasons Home All Day, Home All Night Stonegarden Records David Steinhart has been one of the stalwarts of the Los Angeles indie folk scene [...]
Cots Disturbing Body Boiled Records How many Canadian artists do you know that spent time as bookkeepers in Brazil? If the answer is none, then here’s one — Steph Yates, [...]
1st Base Runner Seven Years Of Silence Universal There are two ways you can approach music in dark times like these. One is to make music as dark or even darker. [...]
David Crosby For Free BMG Sometime this August, David Crosby will turn 80. He has practically been around throughout the entire history of rock music in all its forms. That, along [...]
Dallas Burrow Dallas Burrow Independent For some, the cowboy hat Dallas Burrow is wearing on his second, self-titled album might be the only reason to skip on it. For others, [...]
John R. Miller Depreciated Rounder Records Yet another Americana/alt country album you would say? Maybe. That is a remark that you can encounter from anyone that isn’t [...]
Bryan Away Canyons To Sawdust Independent There are so many sounds around that have been dubbed as Baroque pop, that quite a few of those actually have no connection with [...]
Raymans Welcome To Gerrard Square Independent I guess it would have been a legal hassle to use anything connected with Rayman, the Ubisoft video game character, for [...]
Michael Cormier More Light!! Dear Life Records How do you survive in a music world as an artist these days? Unless you are a big name (and even then, it could be a problem), [...]
Rose City Band Earth Trip Thrill Jockey Every discerning fan of modern-day psychedelia has encountered the name of guitarist Ripley Johnson. You see, Johnson is one of the [...]
Mike Gale Twin Spirit Baboo Records Who can you call the UK version of a combination of Robert Pollard and R. Stevie Moore? Could be a hard choice to make, but here’s one [...]
Six Organs Of Admittance The Veiled Sea Three Lobed Recordings Ben Chasny, or Six Organs of Admittance is one of those artists to whom you can attach only one [...]
Liz Phair Soberish Chrysalis Records There are quite a few scenarios about what happens when your first record is proclaimed (and actually is) a true classic. Most of them are not so [...]
Mercury Rev Snowflake Midnight (Deluxe Edition) Cherry Red Records Let’s put things straight where Mercury Rev is concerned: they are a prog rock [...]
