Melvins Hostile Ambient Takeover (Vinyl Reissue) Ipecac Recordings One of my favourite things is when music completely surprises me, as it did with the [...]
Melvins Gluey Porch Treatments (Vinyl Reissue) Ipecac Recordings Years ago in the small town of Montesano, WA, a three-piece band was playing with a musical [...]
Still Corners The Last Exit Wrecking Light Records Like a long drive through barren desert red rock canyons in a vintage ragtop, even at night the dwindling heat invades the [...]
Danielle Durack No Place Undertow Music “Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance [...]
Dan Mangan Thief Arts & Crafts “I get sick of the same taste in my mouth and sometimes I need to sing someone else’s song to cleanse my palate.” A good cover song ought to sound as [...]
Oh Susanna Johnstown Continental Records My first foray into Suzie Ungerleider’s catalogue of pretty and dark country pop was her second full-length, Sleepy Little Sailor. I [...]
Said The Whale Cascadia Arts & Crafts For me a favourite thing is listening to bands that share a strong kinship with one another as well as to their music. Vancouver, B.C [...]
WELCOMING AND WARM DIVERSIONS A CONVERSATION WITH DAN MANGAN Way back in the days of Myspace an emerging young musician named Dan Mangan commented [...]
Handsome Jack Everything’s Gonna Be Alright Alive Naturalsound Records Handsome Jack is a blues rock trio from upstate New York and while their city of [...]
Richard Reed Parry Quiet River Of Dust Vol. 1 Secret City Records “First the rain begins, and the quiet, it settles in/And it’s awesome.” ~Richard Reed [...]
