JOEL WRIGHT
Dent May's Journey Through the Nite
We've been jawing on about Mississippi's bedroom geek Dent May since about 2009, when his girlfriend held a funeral for her cat.
Gross Magic's Vibe Forever Mix
The first time we heard Gross Magic (aka Brighton youngster Sam McGarrigle) we enjoyed the experience enough to drag our tired fingers over to Google and carry out an extensive background...
DESIGNER WAVE
Remember we posted about Kindness, the uber-hip Arthur Russell acolytes who do a sweet line in awesome cover versions and are generally the best thing in music...
GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME TO THE NIGHT GALLERY
Night Gallery was the follow-up show to the Twilight Zone and featured Rod Serling in an art gallery, unveiling paintings that depicted the story ahead. This may or may not...
Golden Grrrls
What is it about hazy indie-pop bands who bury their glory under a mountain of fuzz and split their time between worshiping C86 and worshiping second-rate American sitcoms?
GET PREGNANT
Being pregnant doesn't sound like much fun. You get huge, everything hurts, it's hard to walk upstairs, and you can't drink gin. I don't even want to go into the whole giving birth thing, because that seems like a real struggle. However, <a href="http...
MIND THE SHARP ENDS
Calgary, Alberta is a generally pretty cold city I know little about apart from that it hosted the Winter Olympics when Jamaica entered--and I only know that because Cool Runnings was my favorite film when I was a kid. There must be something...
TOTALLY HEAVY HAWAII
If you weren't really bored of hearing about Wavves, you'd probably be wondering what Nathan Williams was doing before all the hype, backlash, stage breakdowns and fights with Black Lips that followed. He was playing in a pretty good "tropical psych...
TOO MANY BEET PUNS, ONE GOOD BAND
Ever since I went to Russia I've been super keen on beets. They put it in their awesome traditional borscht soup and in their weirdly heavy but supremely tasty mayonnaise and smoked fish salads. It's also good for the heart. So when I started seeing...
THE DAWN OF DOMINANT LEGS
If you like reviews that name drop a bunch of bands on the way to describing something that sounds really good, you'll love this demo from Dominant Legs.
A PLUG FOR PLUG
are two girls, one who plays drums and one who plays bass and keyboard. They both sing. Make sure you don't get them confused with each other or with Plugs, because that band is distinctly average and these girls rule. I recommend you get down to the...