Pattern Language Total Squaresvielle Happy Robot Records What would be motorik in terms of music? I guess something to get you motorin’ down the Autobahn, or the open highway, if you are from Colorado like Chris Frain, aka Pattern Language. Or [...]
Phoenix Ti Amo Loyaute/Glassnote Records When this one hits the stores, I’ll be sitting back comfortably in my armchair waiting for the flak to start flying around by both critics and those who consider themselves Phoenix fans. I can tell you [...]
Aldous Harding Party 4AD For the less initiated, New Zealand is that land far far away and so strange, they filmed The Lord of the Rings film series there. And for those a bit more in it, New Zealand is that land far far away and so strange [...]
Elf Power Twitching In Time Orange Twin Records Whatever happened to the Elephant 6 Collective that practically ruled the indie rock scene (some even added a then popular sub-label ‘college rock’) in the second part of the Nineties? Some [...]
Big Walnuts Yonder Big Walnuts Yonder Sargent House First fact about Big Walnut Yonder, it is an album by “a super group”. (“OK, so Mike Watt and the guys say it is not. The supergroup, I mean. Maybe because they themselves are aware of [...]
Shugo Tokumaru Toss Polyvinyl Records Slice everything into pieces, toss them in the air, let them fall to the ground, then pick them up and arrange them in any random order and see what you can come up with. I guess that is maybe what Shugo [...]
Tashaki Miyaki The Dream Metropolis Records Usually, it is supposed to be like this — if you haven’t heard of an artist, it is for your own good. But in this information glut we live in, you’re bound to miss on some good ones, even great [...]
