ATLAS GENIUS END OF THE TUNNEL FROGS HEAD RECORDS Has the thought ever crossed your mind that certain songs could constitute the soundtrack for your life story? That, if your life were to ever be made into a movie, you could create a playlist to [...]
FUTURE PALACE DISTORTION ARISING EMPIRE The world and its issues and complicated emotions can par the course for a nightmarish blend of anxiety and overstimulation. It feels like when we often tackle one problem, several others rise in its [...]
THE THE ENSOULMENT CINÉOLA/EARMUSIC The wait is finally over!! After nearly 25 years, The The has finally released a new album titled Ensoulment and what a gloriously exciting return it is. Picking up right where they left off, The The delivers [...]
FRONT 242 TWO IN ONE ALFA MATRIX The rerelease of Front 242’s Two In One on 12-in clear transparent vinyl (originally released in 1981 and 1982), put out on Alfa Matrix just ahead of the Belgian EBM pioneers’ final tour, delivers four tracks [...]
WAYNE GRAHAM BASTION WATERLOO RECORDS No, Wayne Graham is not a singer-songwriter, nor is he a single person (in this case at least)—Wayne Graham is a band from Kentucky, and Bastion is their ninth and latest album. The quartet picked the band [...]
BOB SUMNER SOME PLACE TO REST EASY NORTH COUNTRY COLLECTIVE/FLUFF & GRAVY As an artist, there are two ways to go about tackling Americana music- you can play it straight, picking up the traditional elements (country, folk, other roots forms) [...]
MO KENNEY FROM NOWHERE INDEPENDENT Mo Kenney (they/them) is up to their fifth album titled From Nowhere. Yet, from wherever that is, Juno-nominated songwriter’s music here is coming from somewhere good. Presenting all the usual as well as [...]
DAVID LUNING LESSONS INDEPENDENT Yet another Americana artist? Well, yes and no really, as Americana as a genre has long been an expanding musical category that includes so many disparate musical elements that often don’t have much in [...]