First Impressions: Metals by Feist
Feist’s 2007 The Reminder was an unexpected hit, although in retrospect its success isn’t surprising: intentionally or not, she hit all the buttons of the modern promotion machine – viral […]
Feist’s 2007 The Reminder was an unexpected hit, although in retrospect its success isn’t surprising: intentionally or not, she hit all the buttons of the modern promotion machine – viral […]
The best music rarely fits neatly into a category. Since great music often comes from ambitious, multi-talented, and highly curious musicians, this isn’t surprising: pull anything together that doesn’t fit […]
Imagine this situation: you walk into a café or a hole-in-the-wall bar and there’s a small acoustic group playing, on a small stage or, more likely, over to one side […]
“Right now, I’ll do it right now, here’s your damn love song and don’t it say it all,” Amy Lavere sneers at the start of “Damn Love Song” on her […]
You can read reviews for the highlighted albums below. Thurston Moore, Demolished Thoughts – In which the Sonic Youth leader goes all Sea Change-era Beck (with help from the man […]
Eleanor Friedberger’s (she’s one half of The Fiery Furnaces, her brother Matthew forming the other half) first solo album, Last Summer, is a gem. Recorded and set firmly, at least […]
The story of Justin Vernon’s first album as Bon Iver is legendary: man’s band breaks up, man breaks up with girlfriend, man gets mono, so man moves into father’s cabin […]
There’s a scene in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous in which Stillwater (the fictional band a young journalist modeled on Crowe is following) takes to the stage. The lights are down, […]
If your impression of ukulele music is formed, like mine, from painful memories of grade school, Don Ho records found hidden at the back of your parents’ record collection, and […]
I love this album, a beautiful, sad, acoustic offering from the Sonic Youth leader. It reminds me of Sea Change, not surprising given Beck produced it. It also brings to […]