Every album Shannon Wright releases is a chance for her to push a little further beyond the boundaries that contained her on the album before. This time, she turns her attention more fully to piano on a set of songs […]
Every album Shannon Wright releases is a chance for her to push a little further beyond the boundaries that contained her on the album before. This time, she turns her attention more fully to piano on a set of songs […]
After the expansive 2003 album Feast Of Wire and an impressive presence on Neko Case’s Blacklisted the year before that, Calexico apparently decided this was no time to rest. It’s a good thing, too; although the Convict Pool EP features […]
Over the Mekons’ 25-year history, the band’s strongest works have been the result of flat-out ballsy experiments in synthesizing disparate musical forms. It may be country, punk, folk, loops and samples, or spoken word that they’re blending into the mix, […]
For those who passed on 1985’s there-and-gone vinyl or ’89’s contextualizing value-pak Original Sin, here’s yet another iteration of this seminal alt-country touchstone. Its roguish charm and unkempt forward lurch remain resilient and undiminished, and its doomed but undaunted worldview […]
Fifteen-odd years into the digital age, and I still don’t know what to call these damn things — odds and sods, scrap piles, dung heaps. But no matter what you call them, these collections of outtakes, soundtrack contributions, EP cuts […]
Two years ago Danny Barnes insisted the Bad Livers’ first, cassette-only release (not counting that seven-inch of “Lust For Life”) wouldn’t be reissued in digital form because he wasn’t satisfied with its sound quality. Happily, he has relented. Recorded in […]
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