Score: 8/10 Welcome to the “age of information” wherein my favorite band releases a new album and I get wind of it only 30 days later. I guess it’s a good thing that every three months or so in my Bandcamp perusals I make a little “Check Fire Note” marking next to all the genre […]
Score: 8/10 American electro-pop diva Glasser (originally born in Boston) holds a special place in my heart as being an artist I discovered on CD at our local library, circa 2010. This drove includes the auspicious likes, as it were, of White Rabbits, Starlight Mints, White Denim and probably a bunch of other squirrel-ly indie […]
Score: 8.5/10 For most of the last 20 years or so, the potential future of the Long Beach Dub Allstars seemed so grim and ill-fated that the announcement of this new album possessed a certain charm, I’d say, for sheer underdog status. Now, this is not to detract from the band’s former output, of which […]
Score: 8.5/10 At some point Bandcamp needs to really institute the policy that applies to “usernames” — no two can be identical. Anyway, I’m left to gather by all the semi-conclusive evidence on Spotify and Bandy that this is indeed a self-titled debut, from a singer/songwriter in Nashville, who records on four-tracks, and the best […]
Score: 8.5/10 Mike Gordon is the bassist in the jam band Phish and now bestows to us his sixth solo album, Flying Games. As we know, Phish does U.S. tours pretty much every summer. In addition, Gordon has released three albums with acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke. So nobody’s wondering what he’s been up to lately, […]
Score: 4/10 The brand of big, bombastic, fully produced glam-rock to which Iggy Pop seems preternaturally attracted sort of requires an introduction. In interviews, Ig has been effusively derogative of “The ’60s” (in one interview positing one of his main accomplishments as “I helped kill of the sixties”), and has also taken it upon him […]
Score: 3/10 Louder than Sound describes Wilderness of Mirrors as “the perfect soundtrack for the end of the world,” which is ironic, seeing as Alex Maas seems to take every opportunity possible to get all lovey-dovey with the kind of nauseating lack of self-consciousness only a Southern good-ol’-boy could probably muster. They claim that the […]
Score: 10/10 Here comes that new Jack White album, like a gossamer in the corner of your eye you dread for its certainty to distract you from your surrogate dog-like idee fixee to which you otherwise would be clinging. Remember folks, he dated Renee Zelwegger. That oughta make you feel better. There’s also the fact […]