An Intuitive, Hard-Edged Grace – Sky Lions’ Debut Album “Inside the Circle”
There are bands partnerships and combos made up of musicians, writers, dabblers and (often arrogant) fools...
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An Elegance of Purpose – “Let’s Look Back” from Caleb Nichols on Kill Rock Stars
Some records don’t let you hide. They may evoke the usual quotient of joy and exuberance,...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE VIDEO/TRACK PREMIERE – “The End” from the Shimmy-Disc Reissue of Allen Ginsberg’s 1989 ‘The Lion For Real’ LP
Anyone that grew up (as your correspondent did) in the Bay Area during the 60s-slash-70s that...
22 Years in the Making, an Impeccable Debut – “Motion and Picture” from Chicago band MIIRRORS
ac • cre • tion /Ə’kreSHƏn/ the process of growth or increase, typically by the gradual...
STEREO EMBERS ALBUM PREMIERE: Jad Fair & Samuel Locke Ward’s “Destroy All Monsters” via Kill Rock Stars
OK well this is kind of insane. And by ‘insane’ we mean wonderful, and by ‘wonderful’...
That Familiar Place of Foreboding and Allure – Swans’ “The Beggar”
Quick – or in a slower manner, won’t matter – describe how an iceberg groans in...
STEREO EMBERS ALBUM PREVIEW – “High and Dry” from Alien Gothic (A Shoreline Dream, Gennesier)
For some musicians, one band or project just isn’t enough. Their drive and curiosity (inseparable as...
Running on Full – “…The Great Escape” from Chris Stamey
Once every couple of weeks an album arrives at my SEM...
STEREO EMBERS VIDEO/TRACK PREMIER – “Mallangong” from Reissued Bruce Haack Album ‘Captain Entropy’
As regards appreciation of the arts, specifically, for our purposes here, music, startlement is undervalued. Not...
In All Their Weird Agility and Grace – The Eponymous Debut EP From The Clubmen 3 (Andy Partridge, Jen Olive, Stu Rowe)
While admittedly rare in the digital blur that constitutes our lives these days, it is still...