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It’s hard to believe Spoon have been around long enough to warrant releasing a ‘best of’ collection, but here we are. It’s 2019 and Spoon have just released a 13-track collection of tracks that cover from 2001s Girls Can Tell clear up to 2017s Hot Thoughts. Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon is […]
Read More Spoon : Everything Hits at Once//The Best of SpoonTy Segall is back with a new album. Coming down from the T. Rex grooves and Detroit City rock/funk of Freedom’s Goblin, his newest First Taste looks a little more inward. Segall still knows how to shake a tail feather or two, but this feels less like an extroverted peacock and more like a cautionary […]
Read More Ty Segall : First TasteAlex Calder came up with Mac Demarco in Makeout Videotape. Playing lo fi, kind of sleazy pop with Mac, he went out on his own after Demarco struck it big with his album 2. Where Demarco displayed a kind of Cheshire cat grin and self-assured creepiness that came off more endearing than problematic, Alex Calder’s […]
Read More Alex Calder : Self-TitledPenny Wishes are a three-piece indie/alternative rock band out of Lima, Ohio. They’re a band fronted by bassist/singer Siera Lynn, with Nolan Klock on guitar and Jesse Martin on drums. The music these three create is thick with urgency and buzzing guitar jangle. Listening to their full-length self-titled debut from last year I’m reminded of […]
Read More Drown It Out : A Talk With Ohio’s Penny WishesJay Som is an artist that evokes long car rides in the summer, quiet walks in the fall, and long distance stares in the dead of winter. Melina Duterte’s songwriting makes you listen twice, as her songs and sleepy melodies creep up on you like an old friend. But it’s merely a case of deja […]
Read More Jay Som’s ‘Anak Ko’ Drops in August; Listen To The Dreamy “Superbike” Right NowMac Demarco is the lovable weirdo of indie rock. Since the beginning, which was 2012s Rock and Roll Night Club, Demarco recorded songs that sounded like poorly stored pop songs; tracks on reel-to-reel tapes slowly molding in some nondescript storage unit in Canada. An equal mix of earnest songwriting and underlying seediness. With 2, his […]
Read More Mac Demarco : Here Comes The CowboySlow Dakota, the musical home of musician and songwriter PJ Sauerteig, has been on quite the musical tear as of late. Starting with last October’s “Suite for Voice and Ukulele”, then the Valentine’s Day confection “Canticle 69”. Last month we were graced with yet another single in the sublime “Gardener in the Rain”. Now, on […]
Read More Slow Dakota Talks “Creation of the World”