Oxford, England’s Goldrush has created a follow up to 2005’s Ozona, which was recorded in a cowshed in the U.K. countryside. The Heart Is The Place is free from overly produced studio work (obviously, a cowshed can only be so high-tech, right?!), and may not be perfect, but that becomes more endearing than something to […]
Nathan & Stephen’s debut release, The Everyone EP, is an energetic mixture of solid rock drums, sandpaper vocals, and punk rock dynamism. I must admit, I saw this group play live before I heard their recording, and I recall wondering why such a large group of people was required to create such a cacophonous, ear-bleeding […]
Rjd2 has changed labels for his latest release, The Third Hand, moving from left-field hip-hop label Def Jux to XL Recordings, home of indie rock favorites the White Stripes and Thom Yorke. This record finds Rj playing and recording every instrumental sound as well as singing on almost every track; a fair change from the […]
Apparently, according to the press release I received, Missouri-based The North Atlantic was born on the same day as I was: October 15th. But I am not so sure that this album heralds as glorious an arrival as I did some two-odd decades ago. I came out two weeks early and was no bigger than […]
Muse‘s new album gets straight to the effin’ point. Allow me to do the same: the first four tracks are the four best tracks on the album. Am I the only one who didn’t really get into the Muse craze before? For whatever reason, Absolution and its predecessors just didn’t quite do it for me. […]
I find it interesting that Spike Priggen has chosen to release a full-length album of cover songs as his sophomore effort. According to Spike himself, “A lot of people might think it’s weird for a songwriter’s second album to be all other people’s songs, but a lot of the artists I really admire were known […]
Hey, bartender! I’ll have a vodka punk up with a splash of rock and a twist of blues, please. What’s that, you say? You’ve never heard of that one? Ah, well it’s called The Golden Republic, and it’s perfect for this debut full-length self-titled album from a four-piece in Kansas City, MO.
GGGRAAAAAAAAAAWR!! The mighty hell spawn of Antarctica has done it again! Clearly one of the most entertaining acts around, this macabre death-metal outfit always manages to put on a wonderfully engaging show. The first band, Dying Fetus, was missed altogether, again, because the Ogden in its idiocy takes credit cards, thus creating the kind of […]
Nick Urata: vocals, theremin, guitars, piano, trumpet Tom Hagerman: violin, accordion, piano Jeanie Schroder: sousaphone, upright bass, Vocals Shawn King: drums, percussion, trumpet After what seems like forever, DeVotchKa has finally released another amazing album, How It Ends. In a world full of war, politics and hardship, one thing is for certain: they will be […]
One of Saddle Creek’s newer investments, Son, Ambulance, has released a record that’s like buttered toast: plain, but still mildly satisfying. Key is a record of mostly piano, layered vocal and instrumental tracks, and simple vocals courtesy of singer/songwriter Joe Knapp. Tracks like “Billy Budd” are reminiscent of Cursive and hint at the new conglomerate […]
