Classic Album Review: The Soft Boys | Underwater Moonlight … And How it Got...
This came out in 2001 — or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
As the story goes,...
Albums Of The Week: Various Artists | Rough Guide to the Best Japanese Music...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “This Rough Guide offers an insight into the richness and diversity of some of Japan's most fascinating alternative music scenes. A collection of hard-to-discover musical...
Albums Of The Week: Balkan Taksim | Disko Telegraf
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Balkan Taksim is the corduroy-clad brainchild of Bucharest-based multi-instrumentalist / artist Sașa-Liviu Stoianovici and his electronica-producer companion Alin Zăbrăuțeanu, who are on a quest to inform,...
Albums Of The Week: Bo Ningen | Bo Ningen: Rebuilt
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Japanese alt-rock band Bo Ningen’s latst album Bo Ningen: Rebuilt is a very special reissue of their 2010 self-titled debut album. Intent on avoiding the cliched...
Albums Of The Week: Shannon McNally | The Waylon Sessions
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “With her new album The Waylon Sessions, the prolific and wide-ranging Shannon McNally set out to revisit the songs and spirit of Waylon Jennings, a...
Albums Of The Week: Maika Makovski | MKMK
THE TRANSLATED & EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Spanish singer-songwriter Maika Makovski is not a predictable artist. Her incredible musical talent, the multitude of influences that she treasures, and the urgency...
Albums Of The Week: Kandle | Set The Fire
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Kandle has been on quite the rollercoaster ride since starting a band as a teenager. “Welcome to the music business,” she laughs, having become accustomed...
Albums Of The Week: The Sheepdogs | No Simple Thing
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Everybody could use a trip away from 2020 and 2021. Maybe just a weekend on the lake … even if it’s just a trip of...
Albums Of The Week: Moby | Reprise
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Reprise sees Moby revisiting and reimagining musical highlights from his 30-year career. Together with the Budapest Art Orchestra, he has re-envisioned some of his most...
Albums Of The Week: John Dwyer | Moon Drenched
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The same crew as the boundary-pulsing improvisation record Bent Arcana — John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins, Kyp Malone, Marcos Rodriguez,...
Albums Of The Week: The Datsuns | Eye To Eye
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Six years hath passed since the last release action from NewZild's most noted crafters of classic rock. A lengthy period of quiet has been broken,...
Albums Of The Week: Can | Live In Stuttgart 1975
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Live in Stuttgart 1975 is the first of a curated series of Can live concerts available in full for the first time. Originally recorded on...
Albums Of The Week: David Bowie | The Width Of A Circle
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Last month saw the 50th anniversary of the original U.K. release of The Man Who Sold The World, David Bowie’s landmark entry into the 1970s....
Albums Of The Week: Black Midi | Cavalcade
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Cavalcade is a dynamic, hellacious, and inventive follow-up to Black Midi's 2019 releases Schlagenheim. It scales beautiful new heights, pulling widely from a plethora of...
Indie Roundup | 63 Songs To Make You Scratch Your Head This Wednesday (Part...
Future Prawn take out the trash, Royal Canoe make static electricity, Shad gets down to work, La Fleu Fatale step up — and is it just me, or do...
