Ten years, eight albums, three chords, and one truth: that music, as the Lovin’ Spoonful put it, can free your soul. Centro-matic by the numbers? Raw stats rarely do justice to artists — did we mention the hundreds of songs […]
Ten years, eight albums, three chords, and one truth: that music, as the Lovin’ Spoonful put it, can free your soul. Centro-matic by the numbers? Raw stats rarely do justice to artists — did we mention the hundreds of songs […]
The Mendoza Line’s by turns luminous and raging seventh album serves as bracing testimony as to how to stay human in a world assailed by bigotry and bad faith. “Accept no imitations, baby, catch a collapsing star/It’s your limitations that […]
In terms of channeling ambition into strange nooks and crannies, Will Oldham and Conor Oberst might have nothing on Will Johnson. As with those other eccentrics, Johnson’s prolific songwriting spills over from his main band (Centro-matic) into side projects. But […]
Six years into Centro-matic’s tenure, Will Johnson and his mates have carved out a kind of cottage industry of jagged, moody roots-rock. Unlike many sectors of the sluggish economy, their production is booming: This disc, the band’s Misra Records debut, […]
On her second solo album in as many years, tireless former Tsunami frontwoman/D.I.Y. pioneer Jenny Toomey tackles the catalog of Franklin Bruno, former leader of indie-pop band Nothing Painted Blue. A current solo artist and sometime journalist, Bruno writes witty […]
Alex McManus knows how to play second fiddle…and guitar, and banjo, and just about anything else he might be called on to play. As part of the sprawling country orchestra that is Lambchop — not to mention his participation in […]
As the former leader of influential early ’90s indie bands Tsunami and Grenadine and the head of the groundbreaking Simple Machines label, Jenny Toomey has become synonymous with punk rock overachievement. It’s therefore unsurprising that her solo debut, Antidote, is […]
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