DON McLEAN AMERICAN BOYS BMG/THE ORCHARD Imagine that you’re a veteran singer-songwriter in your late 70s. You have had a storied career, and you wrote one of the most iconic pop songs of the 20th century. What kind of recording do you make in [...]
SUCK BRICK KID THE END IS WHAT I WANT SMARTPUNK RECORDS For the past decade, Suck Brick Kid has been one of those bands that puts the loud and charismatic in punk rock. Since their 2015 EP, The Beast Goes On, Suck Brick Kid has shown an intense [...]
BLITZEN TRAPPER 100’S OF 1000’S, MILLIONS OF BILLIONS YEP ROC It has been a while since we had a chance to hear from Blitzen Trapper, four years approximately, and it is always welcome to hear back from them, no matter which [...]
ABBEY MASONBRINK RISING INDEPENDENT Basing your music mainly on your vocals and banjo, might not be so unusual if your songs fall solely in the folk or bluegrass genres, but Kansas singer songwriter Abbey Masonbrink doesn’t think that [...]
BETH GIBBONS LIVES OUTGROWN DOMINO RECORDS There is something ethereal to Beth Gibbons’ voice, the distinctively haunting quality that made the trip hop genre such a fitting home for it and had helped launch her band Portishead into global [...]
THE ANTI-QUEENS DISENCHANTED STOMP RECORDS In 2019, The Anti-Queens released their incredible debut full-length album, The Anti-Queens, which followed a pair of EP’s since 2012. The band, led by Emily Bones and Valerie Knox, has since become [...]
MARUCOPOROPORO CONCEIVE THE SEA FLAU Japanese artist marucoporoporo might currently be a relatively unknown act, after all, Conceive The Sea is her debut album, with a previous EP back in 2018. Yet, the quality of this, not so easy definable [...]
KNOCKED LOOSE YOU WON’T GO BEFORE YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO PURE NOISE RECORDS Knocked Loose is back with their third studio album, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To. This marks their first album in nearly five years since their second [...]
