Youth Lagoon : Rarely Do I Dream

Trevor Powers, aka Youth Lagoon, seems to be making up for lost time. After taking a several years hiatus from his main music project and releasing records under his own name, Powers brought Youth Lagoon back into the sunlight. It seems a serious health crisis put things into stark perspective and allowed Trevor to see […]

Causa Sui : Loppen 2024

What better way to break in the new year than with a brand new live album from Denmark’s reigning kings of fuzzed-out psych rock Causa Sui. For the past 20 years the quartet known as Causa Sui(Jonas Munk, Jess Kahr, Rasmus Rasmussen, Jakob Skøtt) have been worshipping at the alter of Blues For The Red […]

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory : Self-Titled

I think Sharon Van Etten has always had a Goth queen inside of her just waiting to come out. Even from the very beginning her albums ached with the kind of doomed romanticism that Siouxsie Sioux, Kate Bush, and Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser trademarked back in the heyday of early 80s alternative. Van Etten leaned […]

Delta IV : Radium Arc

If you’ve been following along with Seattle’s electronic synth duo Delta IV for the last few years, you’d notice a steady progression. They’re following in the footsteps of legends like Zombi, Tangerine Dream, post-Gabriel Genesis, and The Secret Machines; forging thoughtful, expansive sound worlds through big drums and steely synths. And while the retro-futuristic, chromed-out […]

Mogwai : The Bad Fire

Scottish post-rock OGs Mogwai have been blowing minds and ear drums for closing in on 30 years. They’ve expanded their monolithic guitar-heavy sound over the years to include synthesizers, electronics, and have even gotten into film scoring. And on a personal note, I saw Mogwai back in 2004 open for The Curiosa Festival and can […]

Elephant9 & Terje Rydpal : Catching Fire

I’ve been listening to Elephant9 & Terje Rydpal’s live album Catching Fire for a couple months now. Letting the immense 80 minute concert recorded in 2017 soak into my brain just to try and put words together to describe it. Putting this into some narrative has eluded me, but I figured what the heck. Elephant9 […]

Tim Heidecker : Slipping Away

Tim Heidecker, one half of comedy duo Tim and Eric, is secretly a pop songwriter and musician. Well, it’s not really much of a secret these days. After releasing albums like What The Brokenhearted Do and High School the comedian/actor known for his absurdist humor and surreal characters has established himself as a great songwriter, […]

Japandroids : Fate & Alcohol

Canada’s Japandroids were, at one time in the early 2010s, the saviors of rock n roll. While Williamsburg was the hub of all things indie – which included bands like Grizzly Bear, The National, and Dirty Projectors – Vancouver’s Japandroids(which included guitarist/vocalist Brian King and drummer/vocalist David Prowse) arrived in 2009 with Post-Nothing. That album […]

David Gilmour : Luck and Strange

David Gilmour is known as much for his crystalline guitar tone and soulful vocals as he is for being the guy that replaced Syd Barrett in Pink Floyd back in the 60s. Of course his main gig over the last 50+ years is hard to overshadow, but Gilmour brought a grounded, bluesy component to Pink […]

White Hills : Beyond This Fiction

At this point the New York psych rock duo White Hills have become an institution. Muti-instrumentalists Dave W and Ego Sensation have for the better part of 20 years now been consistently writing, recording, and releasing rock and roll records that bring everything from psych, noise, industrial, garage, and Krautrock into their sound. This duo […]