Music
Review: American Heritage – Prolapse
American Heritage = Mastodon + Knut … read more
Death Magic: HEALTH Finds The Perfect Prescription
Taking a page from some of music’s most self-effacing artists, such as Kevin Shields and Trent Reznor, HEALTH possess numberless albums that were scrapped due to their creative perfection complex. The Los Angeles noise-rock act HEALTH stood on the edge of oblivion and took six years to architect a near-perfect follow-up to 2009’s Get Color, Death Magic.
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Review: 7sleepers – Self-Titled
7sleepers = Stars of the Lid x Soundgarden + Brian Eno … read more
Local Review: Berlin Breaks – Empty Spaces
Berlin Breaks = Trapt + Tool … read more
Local Review: Sex Room – Naked on the Internet
Sex Room = Dillinger Four + Reagan Youth … read more
Review: Ezra Furman – Perpetual Motion People
Ezra Furman = Dr. Dog + 90s Television + The Exploding Hearts … read more
Top 5 Indie Pop Albums To Pin To Your Anorak
We get it—it’s not just a winter jacket, it’s a suit of armor for your shy sensibilities and tender emotional life. This list of pure, perfect indie pop albums from 2015 would make for perfect badges to decorate it with. … read more
Top 5 Darkwave Albums that We’re Pretty Sure were Written...
In the year 2015, we’re still a long way away from creating autonomous, AI-driven androids to take over all of our menial labor, and even further away from an inevitable uprising led by an army of robotic Arnold Schwarzeneggers. Luckily, we have our own little taste of the future in the form of these five awesome darkwave albums from this year. … read more
Top 5 Paisley-Crushing Psych Albums
We get it—you like Dead Meadow, bro, but there’s a lot of psych out there that breaks this mold—psych to bang your head to and to do a spooky dance to. Here are five psych albums that keep the genre interesting. … read more
Local Review: Charles Ellsworth – Wildcat Chuck Charles
Every one of Ellsworth’s albums sounds like the backing track to a heart-wrenching montage of a man crossing the U.S. in an old, rusted-out Chevrolet, sipping whiskey and wiping tears. … read more
Review: Birds in Row – Personal War
Birds in Row = Oathbreaker + Loma Prieta + The Blood Brothers … read more
H2O: Still Faster Than the World
New York hardcore youth crew skate punks H2O once released an album called Go! From this album, the slogan “H2O Go!” became a reprising statement of the band itself. H2O have been active since 1995 and, according to bassist Adam Blake, they “may have slowed down a bit, but damn it, we are trying to keep up!” … read more
