Rock and Roll Deutschland

I’m going to claim ignorance here, as we all get older and wiser(well, some of us anyways.) Growing up there was only a select few German bands I thought of in regards to rock and roll. Two of the main ones were Scorpions and Accept, with Krokus occasionally popping up on my radar thanks to […]

Damien Jurado : The Horizon Just Laughed

For 20 years Damien Jurado has taken the slow but steady road to the crown of preeminent American songwriter. Playing in-stores, living room shows, and intimate 50-seat room gigs across the US and Europe touring in a van with just an acoustic guitar, Jurado has proven himself the musician of the people. He’s a guy […]

Shy Boys : Bell House

There’s an overwhelming exuberance that comes from The Shy Boys’ newest long player called Bell House. Rough-around-the-edges four-part harmonies intermingle with sparse garage rock compositions, bringing to mind The Feelies and the dB’s with a touch of K Records illumination. Their music has a timeless feel that gives it the feeling of finding some lost […]

Michael C Sharp : End Times in Babylon

Michael C Sharp released his debut album on Holodeck Records last year titled Never Enough Time. It was a heady and densely layered collection of guitar loops and synths woven together to form these dream-like songs. Elements of Steve Reich and Rhys Chatham; as well as guitar touches inspired by guys like Gunter Schickert, Achim Reichel, […]

Metavari : Symmetri

Nate Utesch has been the leader and sole constant in the electronic band Metavari since its inception back in 2008. He’s cultivated the sound and aesthetic from the sprawling vastness of post-rock to a much tighter electronic feel quite seamlessly. If you listen to early Metavari, say something like Be One of Us and Hear […]

Streetlamps For Spotlights : Millenium Summer EP

by EA Poorman Photo by Drew Allegre Jason Davis is what you’d call a jack of all trades. He runs local recording studio Off The Cuff Sound in Fort Wayne, as well as giving music lessons at said music studio. He also does all kinds of repairs on instruments. From setting up a Fender Tele […]

D.A.L.I : WHEN HARO MET SALLY

If you grew up in the 1980s then you get it. If you grew up just on the outskirts of the neon decade then you might as well have grown up at the turn of the century. The 1980s were a pretty incredible time to be a freckle-faced kid, cruising around the suburbs with nothing […]

Carl Weingarten : Living In The Distant Present

Listening to Carl Weingarten’s excellent Living In The Distant Present I wonder why this album wasn’t far more well known. To my ears, it feels like one of the preeminent ambient albums. Forward-thinking, vast, and engaging guitar, looping, and synth excursions that invite the listener to get lost in these ethereal musical landscapes. Weingarten sat […]

Jake Schrock : Tropical Depression

Jake Schrock makes music that feels breezy and calm, but always with a sense of unease just under the surface. Vintage synths and drum machines click, hiss, and breathe like ancient devices discussing the world’s end in a language we can’t understand. Yet, those mechanical tomes pull us in and allow us to get lost […]

Deafheaven : Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

It’s really hard to digest the full extent of growth in Deafheaven’s musical evolution. From West Coast black metal to blackgaze to introspective metal to where they are now is quite an astonishing feat. I didn’t jump into their swirl of guitars, screams, and melancholy till after Roads To Judah. I wasn’t a fan of […]