The Return of LIGHTNING STRIKES! – Quick but Essential Reviews for the Discerning Listener
As is never not the case an immodest host of recent releases has grown like some...
Author: Dave Cantrell
The Day Baroque Woke the Fck Back Up – Stephen Bluhm’s “Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here”
Albums keep raining on to my desk, pouring in over the transom like a flood of...
An Intimate Reckoning Plain Said – “Backwater Collage” from New James Hoare Project Penny Arcade
One of the lesser-acknowledged aspects of quietude is how active it actually is, how much is...
Filled With the Vigor of Revival – BMX Bandits Return With Invincible New Album “Dreamers on the Run”
Delicate but indominable, there’s something in the Scottish pop spirit that cannot be gainsaid. Through every...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE – “Groundwater” from the Pan▪American/Kramer Album ‘Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic on Redding Road’
So this one comes stealing in like a wind intervening from the east filled with a...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE SINGLE PREVIEW – “Hangin’ On A Dream” from Rising Post-Punk/Industrial/Dark Synth-Pop Star Julia Gaeta
For this writer, one of the aspects of this long-standing gig here at SEM meshing with...
INEXTINGUISHABLE #1 – “Oppenheimer Hat” by The Blue Law from the “Bou Noura” EP, 1988
‘It’s hard to explain magic.’ That phrase, truism that it is, has no doubt been uttered...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE ADVANCE STREAM – Full-Length “SUA” from Is/Ought Gap, One of the Original Athens GA Scene’s Most Respected, Legendary Bands (Includes Track-by-Track from Co-Founder Bryan Cook)
Like some lost version of an imagined American post-punk Lost Horizons, one of this country’s most...
Countless Merits Pouring So Subtly Forth – Pete Astor’s Latest Full-Length “Tall Stories & New Religions”
Songs, if properly created, are malleable. They’re like kids – like any of us, at least...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE – “Dance For No One” from the Giverny-Based Band You Said Strange
Whatever perspective you bring to it, whether it be a fairly fresh-to-the-scene one where you’re summoned...