The Jayhawks XOXO SHAM After 35 years together, The Jayhawks appear comfortable with their place in music. The quintessential jangle pop group, no one has personified the genre’s revival like The Jayhawks. And yet, 35 years later, nothing much [...]
DATABASE OF THE DEAD A CONVERSATION WITH BENJAMIN HACKMAN OF THE HOLY GASP In the span of a few years, a number of people close to The Holy Gasp leader Benjamin Hackman died. His father died of a heart attack, shortly afterwards his therapist [...]
White Denim World As A Waiting Room Radio Milk Records In the midst of Austin’s stay-at-home order, the four members of White Denim devised a plan to record a full-length album, their 10th, in 30 days. After a week at the band’s Radio Milk [...]
PIXIES w/ ICE CREAM @ THE PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE, TORONTO DECEMBER 12, 2019 The swaggering Black Francis spoke for the first time to the audience, as new cut “St. Nazaire” broke down. “In a train-wreck, sometimes you play a different song.” Not [...]
Animal Collective Ballet Slippers Domino In 2009, Animal Collective released their seminal Merriweather Post Pavilion LP, an experimental collection of mind-bending nooks and crannies. Ten years later comes Ballet Slippers, a twelve-song [...]
Various Artists Too Late to Pray: Defiant Chicago Roots Bloodshot Records Bloodshot Records emerged on the scene 25 years ago, aiming to be a bridge. What is soul is bluegrass, what is punk is folk, what is pub rock is rockabilly. The sounds [...]
DRAGONS AND PSYCHEDELIC COUNTRY SOUL A CONVERSATION WITH GREG SOWDERS OF THE LONG RYDERS Psychedelic country soul are three words that can be mashed together only to describe the American country and legends of Paisley Underground, The Long [...]
London Stone Just How High Independent “Just need those dancing shoes.” The London Stone cries these five words, as the drums bash away, the crunchy guitar riff repeats, and the echoey vocalist announces “and on, and on, and on.” Dance you will, [...]
Jonny Kosmo Jonny Kosmo Independent Los Angeles musician Jonny Kosmo releases his debut album, a collection of disco-tinged psychedelia and funky ‘80s-esque bass. Fresh off a stint as a member of local psych pop band Mr. Elevator, Kosmo features [...]
The Long Ryders Psychedelic Country Soul Cherry Red Records The Long Ryders put themselves at the forefront of Americana, as part of the Paisley Underground scene in the 1980s. Since disbanding in 1987, and re-forming several times over the past [...]
Crane Like The Bird Crane Like The Bird Independent After years of stacking up his resume, Kyle Crane has the spotlight. After touring with artists such as Neko Case and M. Ward, as well as appearing in the film Whiplash as the drum double, [...]
Ocean Potion Ocean Potion Independent It’s almost been three years since Tame Impala released Currents. For a band that’s always been the forefront of the neo-psychedelic scene, once again they changed its face, leaving a path of imitators in [...]
