WILDER MAKER SMOKING THE BUNNY WESTERN VINYL When we reviewed Wilder Maker’s The Streets Like Beds Still Warm album back in 2025, we noted that the band’s frontman Gabriel Birnbaum is all over the place, operating as a music [...]
WILDER MAKER THE STREETS LIKE BEDS STILL WARM WESTERN VINYL Brooklyn’s Gabriel Birnbaum seems to be all over the place these days, either as a music curator/PR man, solo artist, or as a member/principal songwriter of dark, jazzed-up folk [...]
Stephen Steinbrink Disappearing Coin Western Vinyl Sure, it has been tried before. That is, combining Brian Wilson-like harmonies with meandering and subtly complex San Francisco psych vibes. Yet integrating the two into an artful combination [...]
ACTIVITY DEBUT NEW SINGLE/VIDEO “DEPARTMENT OF BLOOD” FROM NEW ALBUM SPIRIT IN THE ROOM OUT AUGUST 4 VIA WESTERN VINYL Activity, the Brooklyn-based band of Travis Johnson (lead vocals/multi-instrumentalist), Jess Rees (guitar/vocals/keys), Bri [...]
Market The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong Western Vinyl At some point you reach a stage when some mellow, subdued, harmony vocal pop rock with intelligent lyrics just fits the bill perfectly. In the late 90s and at the turn of the millennium, [...]
Lightning Dust Spectre Western Vinyl After a six-year hiatus, Vancouver-based duo Lightning Dust return with their fourth album, Spectre, a beautiful, haunting, dreamscape of songs. The opening track “Devoted To” is a swirling, [...]
