Though she’s best known as Waxahatchee, Katie Crutchfield has been making music as a part of a number of different projects for many years. As her four Waxahatchee records can attest, she’s best known for a grungy, garage rock sound. […]
Though she’s best known as Waxahatchee, Katie Crutchfield has been making music as a part of a number of different projects for many years. As her four Waxahatchee records can attest, she’s best known for a grungy, garage rock sound. […]
I know this is completely irrelevant and probably irreverent as well, but the first thing I did when I pressed play on H.C. (Heather) McEntire’s Lionheart was sing “I fell in the pit / you fell in the pit” along […]
The Clientele’s latest, Music for the Age of Miracles, marks a return to the more casual production, folkish instrumentation, and atmospheric soundscapes introduced on the band’s debut, Suburban Light (track 3 of which, “Reflections after Jane,” I’d include in my […]
When Hiss Golden Messenger played a show in New York City just one week after the election last year, the mood was grim. It was evident that frontman M.C. Taylor was doing his best to put on a happy face […]
Recorded entirely in London, Mark Eitzel’s tenth solo album, Hey Mr Ferryman, reflects the dreamier side of the former American Music Club leader’s varied pastiche. With one time Suede guitarist Bernard Butler behind the boards, the album boasts an ethereal […]
Bob Mould wants to be your drug dealer. Yep. He says so right there on his website. Well, that’s understandable. The music biz iz tuff these days, and a man’s got to make a living. He calls his latest product […]
There are those albums that in some fundamental way evoke a feeling, tone, or existential space with which I’m inarticulately familiar—it’s those albums to which I keep returning year after year. They’re like fingers pointing at the moon, to reference […]
Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward are both talented artists with reputations for integrity, good taste and choosing their projects carefully. This duo record had the potential to be either dazzling or a muddled mess. While Deschanel’s a cappella bathroom duet […]
It’s rare enough that a great band reunites to release a great comeback album; carrying the momentum into the record after that is even trickier. It’s like facing the sophomore slump all over again, only this time there’s a beloved […]
Brooklyn band Oakley Hall’s skill at weaving disparate elements into its less-traveled sound — psychedelic harmonies, backwoods choogle, feedback frenzy, banjo, steel and violin — is in full force again on I’ll Follow You. But perhaps the area in which […]
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