Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Bradford Trojan makes the kind of music that feels both sun-kissed and world-weary. Weather worn pop songs that fall into the category of DIY, but not lo-fi. His tunes are like finding a cassette underneath your car seat that’s been there years, maybe even decades. Unmarked you put it in the deck and find this […]
Read More Bradford Trojan : MeanwhileLet us rejoice, for Protomartyr have returned from the Motor City to deliver unto us another sermon of epic proportions. Their rapturous mix of post-punk and art rock combined with front man Joe Casey’s pulpit tirades and apocalyptic urban decay manifestos are the kind of serious talk we all need to hear right now. In […]
Read More Protomartyr : Ultimate Success Todayfeatured photos by Daniel Di Domenico Josh Mills put out one of the best electronic albums of 2019 with his Missions LP Subcreature. On that album Mills built deep, dark electro jams for slinking thru neon-lit city streets with laser precision. His vibes were early 80s electro funk mixed with neo-futuristic dystopia. These were club […]
Read More Missions Returns With “Loversnight”featured photo by Marcus Fisher It’s hard to describe Secret Drum Band’s Chuva, the Portland music collective’s second full-length album and first with the great Moon Glyph Records. It’s nothing like anything Moon Glyph has dabbled in before, with the focus here on rhythm and powerful soundscapes created with intricately orchestrated percussion, ambient electronics, and […]
Read More Secret Drum Band : ChuvaEvery year I like to take a moment and pay my respects to the folks behind the amazing album art that don the gatefold jackets and cassette sleeves and Bandcamp pages. Not just any album covers, but the ones that pull you in. The kind of album art that makes you want to own that […]
Read More Visual Connection : Great Album Art of 2020Well it seems the unbelievers are out in full swing. Unbelievers in contagion and unbelievers in thinking of their fellow human being. So most of the big box stores are enforcing masks in theirs stores if you want to shop there. That’s great. I have older parents and I have friends and family with compromised […]
Read More The World Is Still Ending But A New METZ Album Is Coming In October So It’s CoolSomewhere in the heat of the summer lies a place where Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo’s “The Short Sun” is the score. It’s the sound that emanates from asphalt on a scorching summer walk. It’s the sun barreling down on you, bringing you into a sort of solar, psychedelic state of peace. Shuffling drums, […]
Read More Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt Duo’s “The Short Sun” Is A Hazy Summer DreamIt’s been over five years since My Morning Jacket have released an album. That album was The Waterfall, a solid set of pop and rock tunes that followed in the footsteps 2011s Circuital. Circuital seemed to be looking for a middle ground musically between the shoot-for-the-moon audacity of Evil Urges and the band’s earlier, more […]
Read More My Morning Jacket : The Waterfall IIIt feels trivial to sit here and write about my favorite albums of 2020, but I guess I’m trivial. There are far more important things to be talking about, I’m perfectly aware of that. I look out my window and see the same fires burning as you. I see people ignoring science and believing lies […]
Read More Pandemic 2020 : Favorite Albums So Far In The Year Of The Great SighLightning Dust, aka Amber Webber and Joshua Wells, have been quietly releasing beautifully ornate folksy rock records since 2007. The two former members of Black Mountain started Lightning Dust while still in the Canadian stoner/doom/prog rock outfit, using the project as a means to write more pop-oriented material. Webber’s vocals are one-of-a-kind, putting her in […]
Read More Listen To New Lightning Dust Track “Material Life”; EP Coming 7/23