Score: 9/10 . I was a little surprised to find that there actually was a Wikipedia page on Portland’s Haley Henderickx who in March of this year furnished her first full LP, the stripped-down Sharon Van Etten-approximating I Need to Start a Garden. Also being a guy and searching for this girl it’s hard not […]
Score: 10/10~8.5/10 . Around a year or so ago this time, the unthinkable happened: I heard music that I MYSELF actually considered to be too experimental and weird, in the form of side project On Fillmore via Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche and a rowdy troupe of others. It was like an oxygen hole being poked […]
Score: 0/876 . I still remember the exact moment I realized that Sting wasn’t as lame as like Michael Bolton, or someone like that — my friend had this best of The Police disc cranking in his car and pretty much every tune was a rollicking success. What’s more, each of the songs was a […]
Score: 8/10 . There are advantages and drawbacks to being so astonishingly devout to the most basic, meat-and-potatoes garage-emo as The Trouble Starts are. First of all, this music is almost sure to remind you of those awesome times in high school of drinking in basements (or garages, appropriately enough) and jamming out on the […]
Score: 9/10 . For attempted proof in life that “less is more,” we could try to advertise TGI Friday’s appetizer portion sizes, or, far more auspiciously, we could consider the Canadian DUO (that’s two people for you math majors out there) of drummer and bassist singer Greber who foment up this beautiful mess of metal […]
Score: 8.5/10 . Given the erratic balderdash making its presence felt on the initial seconds of Discography 2 from Cloud Rat, it wasn’t surprising to me when I looked and saw that they share a home state with Wolf Eyes (Michigan). So I was like oh, it’s going to be another Wolf Eyes ripoff like […]
Score: 7/10 . As we all know, pleasure and artistic efficacy exist on an inverse traction. He**, just examine the charming Nap Eyes lyric on album opener “Every Time the Feeling”: “I can’t tell what’s worse / The meaningless / Or the negative meaning / I’ve figured out a way / To get on with […]
Score: 9.5/10 . There’s lots of sort of cheap, readymade monikers you could throw at The Garden if you were being reductive: say, “Those guys who made that Beavis & Butthead-looking album cover in 2013,” or “The guys who opened for Mac Demarco a couple years ago and made everybody’s ears ring so they couldn’t […]
Score: 8/10 . Whether or not you, Logic, Logic’s umpteen producers or your grandpa will admit it, Logic is a big Kanye fan, a fact evident from “BoomTrap Protocol” alone (“Parallel double park that motherfu**er sideways”; “This is my theme song”; to say nothing of like the female genitalia mutilation thing which hopefully isn’t a […]
Score: 9/10 . Emulating Julian Casablancas of The Strokes was only natural for Jack White, when you think about it. In the “Seven Nation Army” video which for some reason I’d never watched before a second ago, he even looks a little like him, that mop cut, a suave, milky complexion and sort of innocent, […]