Thom Yorke’s “Suspirium”

There’s been talk of a Suspiria remake for years now. At first I wasn’t really on board. Why mess with greatness? Dario Argento’s classic occult horror film set in a dance school truly felt like something not to be messed with. So original and dark, and with Goblin’s amazing score pushing it to the very […]

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, […]

Omni Gardens’ “Thinking” Is Absolute Bliss

I’d never really thought much of new age music. I guess my idea of new age is the sound of trickling water, the earth store at the mall, meditating in a salt mine, and guru-looking cats like Yanni or Doug Henning playing one continuous note with purple skies in the background while lost middle-aged souls […]

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 […]

‘When Haro Met Sally’

Tomorrow something special is being released onto the world. Deadly Avenger & Luke Insect’s WHEN HARO MET SALLY, an all-out neon 80s, electro-funk musical romance that tips its helmet to 80s BMX life, summer love, getting high, getting loose, and proving to the world you don’t need a degree to make something of yourself. Here’s […]