Steve Moore : Eye of Horus

Steve Moore is what I’d call a renaissance artist. He doesn’t stay in one lane and do some one trick pony show. He changes musical lanes like a master curator of sound, keeping with electronic music but within that realm morphs and shapes it to fit what mood strikes him. Power synth prog with Zombi […]

Eels : EELS TIME!

Mark Oliver Everett has quietly amassed an impressive discography over the last 30 years, first with two albums under the moniker ‘E’ and then in 1996 debuting EELS. Despite the shift from singer/songwriter pop-inflected songs to a more gruff, alternative vibe both iterations of Everett’s curmudgeon poet laureate remained steadfast. Sad and melancholy but with […]

Strand Of Oaks : Miracle Focus

Timothy Showalter has been kicking around as Strand of Oaks since his 2009 debut Leave Ruin. Starting out with a folksy, singer/songwriter vibe he shifted focus into more synth and pop touches on the project’s breakthrough record Pope Killdragon. His Neil Young affectations were replaced by Tangerine Dream and Kate Bush as influences on his […]

Elephant9 : Mythical River

I discovered Elephant9 a couple years ago via the great and powerful algorithm. Spotify was playing in the house while I did my Friday afternoon cleaning. Not sure what I was listening to, but it ended so the great Spotify algorithm started spitting like-minded artists out at me. One was a song called “Sojourn” by […]

Covered Bridges And The World of Comfy Synth

A couple weeks ago I had someone comment on a post about dungeon synth, and whether I was familiar with it. I’d heard the term, but was not familiar with it. I imagined it to be some friends in a partially finished basement playing D&D and listening to 8-bit electronic music. Like the music you’d […]

MIDI Janitor : Holy To Dogs

There’s something eerie – almost ghost-like – to the music of MIDI Janitor, aka Jonathan Orr. It’s like music made of spare parts; ancient, broken down machines wheezing out bygone melodies to steam-powered beats. Sometimes the eerie gives way to the ethereal, as if Orr was soundtracking a digital sunset in some early 80s Capcom […]

Lenny Kravitz : Blue Electric Light

Lenny Kravitz has had a long, successful career. 35 years to be exact. While never creating something truly original or singular, he’s successfully built a decades-spanning discography on the shoulders of innovators like Sly and the Family Stone, John Lennon, Prince, Stevie Wonder, and the list goes on. His take on 60s free love, 70s […]

DIIV : Frog In Boiling Water

DIIV have established themselves as one of the premier indie rock bands of the 2010s, combining dream pop, shoegaze, and noise rock into a sublime guitar squall. 2012s Oshin established guitarist and band leader Zachary Cole Smith as a prominent voice in the indie rock community and a purveyor of shoegaze, much like contemporaries Nothing, […]

Of Montreal : Lady On The Cusp

Kevin Barnes has been making music as Of Montreal since 1998. Coming out of Georgia’s Elephant 6 collective, he began as a twee folk pop/rock band. But quickly Of Montreal became Barnes’ Funhouse where he could lean into any direction the Muse would take him. From the distinct album art(done by brother David) to the […]

Dehd : Poetry

Dehd came out of the Chicago indie rock scene a few years back like a breath of fresh air. The trio, which consists of Emily Kempf (bass guitar, vocals), Jason Balla (guitar, vocals), and Eric McGrady (drums), has an energy to their sound that’s palpable. Each song sounds like an anthem to youth, life, and […]