To see a live performance by Angel Olsen is to see an artist being playful, experimenting with the sounds of her voice and the impressive capabilities of her band. And her latest release, Phases, captures that spirit. On the heels […]
To see a live performance by Angel Olsen is to see an artist being playful, experimenting with the sounds of her voice and the impressive capabilities of her band. And her latest release, Phases, captures that spirit. On the heels […]
Overwhelmed by a confluence of crises, Justin Vernon retreats to a Wisconsin cabin and records Bon Iver’s 2007 debut, For Emma, Forever Ago: a set of melancholy, austere, and melodically haunting songs replete with acoustic guitars, textural vocal arrangements, and […]
The shimmering synth in the opening of the highly anticipated new Angel Olsen record My Woman will have you doing a double take. Is this the same quiet, introspective, dark Olsen we’ve come to know and love? The answer is […]
The members of Black Mountain feel no special obligation to follow a straight-ahead path through a song, or to rein it in at four minutes. In the Future, their second full-length set, even boasts the sixteen-minute “Bright Lights”. Its first […]
It takes a clever bastard to link, in the space of a three-and-a-half-minute song, acts that include Eurotrash footnotes Nena, college-rock pioneers R.E.M., panty-removal soul brothers the Commodores, and MOR survivor Paul Simon. Even more impressive, Okkervil River singer and […]
As stated by the title of their second full-length, the Besnard Lakes have indeed been something of a dark horse on the Montreal music scene. While the Arcade Fire, Stars, and Wolf Parade have been embraced as genuine indie-rock royalty, […]
Although he made records of his own, oddball folkie Tim Hardin was better-known for interpretations of his work recorded by other iconoclasts: Nico, Scott Walker, and especially Bobby Darin, who went Top-10 in 1966 with “If I Were A Carpenter”. […]
The same America that gave us the Beach Boys also gave us Charles Manson, and for every Woodstock there’s an Altamont. Amid the gatefold-sleeved nostalgia for summer breaks, first loves or your first joint is the half-memory of that house […]
The same America that gave us the Beach Boys also gave us Charles Manson, and for every Woodstock there’s an Altamont. Amid the gatefold-sleeved nostalgia for summer breaks, first loves or your first joint is the half-memory of that house […]
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