DUSTIN JAMES PAPER STAR INDEPENDENT Minneapolis-based songwriter Dustin James was the bassist for the acclaimed garage rock band Green/Blue, and the creative force behind the noisy shoegaze trio Waveless. Yet, on his latest solo project, Paper [...]
THE W LOVERS FOR A DAY OR A LIFETIME INDEPENDENT These are some heady days for the fans of roots-based music, as there are high-quality artists appearing in this musical realm practically every day. If those fans haven’t yet caught up with [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS ASPIRIN AGE VOLUME FOUR (A SHOEGAZE COMPILATION) BROKEN SOUND TAPES Broken Sound Tapes, continuing with cassette week, releases a unique compilation of 19 shoegaze fuzzy tunes to jam straight into your boombox. If you aren’t sure [...]
PIPE-EYE PIPE-DEFY P(DOOM) RECORDS For those wishing to be consumed by the environment of an arcade and the atmosphere of the classic ‘80s scene, Pipe-eye’s newest album, Pipe-defy, can bring you there, but only temporarily. The desire to dance [...]
PHANTOGRAM MEMORY OF A DAY BARSUK RECORDS At one point in our recent past, Phantogram felt like the heir apparent to Portishead, a contemporary artist that bridged the critical divide between electro-pop and moody, brooding trip hop. They [...]
BON IVER SABLE, JAGJAGUWAR SABLE, is the first new music under the Bon Iver name since the 2019 album I,I. Sure Justin Vernon and the members of the band have been making appearances on other artists albums, but SABLE, is a true Bon Iver EP. [...]
ALBERT KING & STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN IN SESSION (DELUXE EDITION) STAX RECORDS/CRAFT RECORDINGS In 1983, Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan came together to record a session for CHCH-TV, a television network based out of Hamilton, ON. Accompanied [...]
ANDREW BIRD CUNNINGHAM BIRD LOMA VISTA RECORDINGS Some albums are released and are just so odd that no one saw them coming at all. This can be said for Cunningham Bird, the collaborative album by Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham. Both artists [...]
