An enjoyable album that sounds awfully familiarÛ_ After releasing a pair of EPs, songwriting duo Reese Donohue and Christopher Prudhomme have finally issued their first full-length as Painted Palms, entitled Forever. Like the duo's hometown of San Francisco, these...
Deep, insightful lyrics over unique and mellow garage rock. Overall, Love Hope Fear is one of the most aptly named albums ever. In just five songs, Tall Dark & Lonesome embark on a voyage to understand and explain these three difficult emotions. The band...
Fun indie electro-pop. With EP “ShadesÛ, Australian band Tales in Space give fans a short yet sweet taste of what their upcoming full-length album. The EP starts out slow, with rhythmic and mellow opener “The Cause” but gives way to upbeat percussion,...
Yoko gonna Yoko I like to think I'm above simple “X gonna X” jokes, but, seriously, how else can you try and describe Yoko Ono's music? There are tracks on here that are almost impossible to get a read on, just Yoko reading/singing/screaming her robo-beatnik...
Electronic, experimental indie cover songs that many bands lend help to. With “Fellow TravelersÛ, Shearwater has created a new kind of cover album. Instead of the band just covering a variety of songs, they invited other bands to help them record. Each of...
Slick, smooth retro-soul Nick Waterhouse's latest release sound like something that would soundtrack the show Suits, classy, soulful and cool in the way a fancy smoke filled room club is cool. The music on Holly emulates 50s R&B and soul, but instead of sounding...
Proof that it's best to let sleeping dogs lie In September, a sans-Kim Deal Pixies decided to come out with it's most substantial release since 1991's Trompe le Monde, and good god was it awful. Boring, generic and uninspired, it was pretty a train wreck: Black...
Cherishing the everyday After working on his side project, Rhye, during the early part of 2013, Milosh is back with Jetlag, showcasing his ability to make the most out of any moment. The sensual, embracing voice of Milosh is matched with creative instrumentation and...
2/3, not bad. The triple EP of Austin alt band HeadShy is meant to hit the listener like a perfume: playing upon three different parts of our senses, the first impression, the theme, and the trail, or The Head Chord, The Heart Chord, and The Base Chord. The three...
Listen closely, listen loudly, listen live. Philadelphia group, Nothing, has made serious headway in the last three years. Alongside bands like Whirr and Ringo Deathstarr, Nothing may soon be another pioneer of shoegaze coming back in new form. Forgetting that front...