To say the Feelies have been an incomparable influence on contemporary indie rock would be a gross understatement. Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan has even said he met wife and bandmate Georgia Hubley at a Feelies concert in their early […]
To say the Feelies have been an incomparable influence on contemporary indie rock would be a gross understatement. Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan has even said he met wife and bandmate Georgia Hubley at a Feelies concert in their early […]
Birdie Busch’s 2006 debut, The Ways We Try, was a sly updating of neo-folkie verities. It was the work of a New Jersey-born songwriter who attended college in Miami and soaked up funk and Caribbean music. The album revealed Busch’s […]
In the six years since her last album, Kate Jacobs got married, had kids, and let this new disc happen as it wanted to; the recording process stretched over years. There is a familial feeling in both the lyrics and […]
Mason Jennings has found his true musical voice. This seems appropriate because he found it on his newest collection of songs titled Use Your Voice. Over the past six years, Jennings honed his distinctive acoustic-based sound while being overshadowed by […]
After deftly navigating Bob Dylan on their last disc (the fine live re-creation of Blood On The Tracks), Mary Lee’s Corvette takes a more personal journey on 700 Miles. This album concentrates on frontwoman Mary Lee Kortes’ own tunes, save […]
Frankly, Lullaby For The Working Class put me to sleep with its obtuse lyrics and dirge-like arrangements. It’s a treat to find that, perhaps partly owing to his continuing sojourn with the guitar-charging band Cursive, Lullaby’s chief lyricist, Ted Stevens, […]
Over the last twenty years most of us have given up on Alex Chilton ever recapturing the soul-deep, emotional bull’s eye of songs such as Big Star’s “What’s Goin’ Ahn.” Maybe Alex has, too. Once upon a time, he could […]
Coming across as a heady amalgamation of Blood Oranges (this record is a virtual string-fest), Scud Mountain Boys (the band’s informal approach to recording) and New Zealand indie-pop (some very nifty Flying Nun-like songcraft in places), this Lincoln, Nebraska, band […]
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