Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
This week is the annual family trip down south to Brown County, Indiana. I guess technically it’s not an annual trip as last year we went to Canada, and the year before that I’m not sure we went anywhere. So, the last time we were in Brown County was three summers ago. We got a […]
Read More Please Stand ByKeith Canisius has been pretty busy the last few months. During lockdown he’s released two albums under the name Shortwave Broadcaster, an ambient project that takes heavily-effected guitar and turns it into something ethereal. Strings awash in modulation, reverb, and delay that transform into swaths of gorgeous sound. Long, expansive tracks that spread out into […]
Read More Further Into Your Moods and Thoughts : Keith Canisius Talks Shortwave BroadcasterCom Truise is one of those artists I can listen to pretty much any time. There’s never really a moment where those big synths, rattling bass, and electro drums don’t wake something in my brain. Maybe it’s like an IV drip of nostalgia into my vein. A portal to the early 80s and a childhood […]
Read More Com Truise Returns With ‘In Decay, Too’; Listen To “False Ascendancy”So who is Mari Vander? Well, I can tell you that she’s a singer/songwriter out of the River City, aka Fort Wayne, Indiana. Outside of that there’s not much info. Before the song I’m about to share with you today Vander recorded Lullaby(The Demo Album), which is acoustic demo tracks that have the raw intimacy […]
Read More Flyover Sounds : Mari Vander’s “Apathy”The musical world of Fir Cone Children is a mixture of bittersweet joy and melancholy longing, all wrapped up in a dream punk/shoegaze swirl. Alexander Donat keeps Fir Cone Children as an output for light and life, where his other project Vlimmer works more in post-punk and Gothic shades. While many struggled to hold it […]
Read More Fir Cone Children Returns With ‘Waterslide At 7 A.M.’ Out 10/30; Listen To “Panic in The Mansion”I’ve been following the Danish record label El Paraiso Records for close to seven years now. Ever since a friend hipped me to a band called Causa Sui and their album Euporie Tide. From the moment I hit play on that stunning album I’ve gladly followed both the band and the label down their very […]
Read More El Paraiso Records’ Wild RideI came to Nels Cline via Wilco. I can remember quite distinctly seeing Wilco on the A Ghost Is Born tour in Chicago at the Auditorium Theater. It was the first time I’d see them with the “new” lineup that’s been the core of Wilco now for the past 16 or 17 years. I’d read […]
Read More The Nels Cline Singers’ “Beam/Spiral”On Deftones newest album Ohms, the Sacramento, California metal band continues to refine and reshape their brand of melodic metal. Singer Chino Moreno’s elastic scream and alluring croon is at the center, while guitarist Stephen Carpenter’s d-tuned guitar creates dark, Gothic mood that tows the line between The Cure and Godflesh, sometimes in the same […]
Read More Deftones : OhmsDawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea’s new album Liberamente is the kind of record you fall deeply into. The trio that hails from both Indiana and Texas create a gorgeous sonic tapestry that feel like part drone-y ambient and almost modern classical. You hear notes and melodies but instruments aren’t discernible. It’s almost like hearing […]
Read More Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea : LiberamenteFew bands these days bring the deep space musical brain dive like Austin’s Thousand Foot Whale Claw. A sort of cosmic Komische band that consists of a who’s who of Austin electronic music royalty, Thousand Foot Whale Claw consists of Justin Goers, Adam Jones, Neil Lord, and Zac Roesch. They each delve into heady musical […]
Read More Thousand Foot Whale Claw Assures Us “The Water is Quite Clear”