STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREVIEW – “The Human Jazz” from Berlin’s TWÏNS
If you took the wildly wandering (and actually surprisingly warm) spirit of kosmische and, with a...
Author: Dave Cantrell
Crackling with Brio and Intelligence – “VS” by The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart (and a Dozen Co-Conspirators)
With art, sometimes it just all comes down to ‘What the fuck?’ Situations arise in the...
Raging with Uncompromise – Shilpa Ray’s Astonishing “Portrait of a Lady”
One day in the fall of 2009, after some fifteen years plus or minus spent chasing...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE – “I’m On a Mission” from 90s Portland legends No. 2, released ahead on new LP “First Love” on Jealous Butcher
While there has always been ‘something’ to the notion of halcyon times, some fleeting truth embedded...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE PREMIER – “Love Me While You Can” from Mott-Approved Band The Handcuffs’ Upcoming Album ‘Burn the Rails’
Yeah, it’s true, we often seem to be privileging the at least slightly more esoteric around...
TRIPTYCH INTO DARKNESS – DON’T GET LEMON “Hyper Hollow Heaven” / SUBURBAN SPELL “Split Levels” / CINEMASCOPE “A Crack on the Wall”
DON’T GET LEMON “Hyper Hollow Heaven” (à La Carte) Have to admit that, like pretty much...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE BOOK EXCERPT – “Omniverse” from Finnish Polymath Artist, Techno Sax Deviant Jimi Tenor
Some artists fashion their own world that the rest of us live in to one degree...
The Persecution, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Karl the Wiener Boy: Zander Schloss on Joe Strummer, Alex Cox, the Circle Jerks and His New Solo Album – Part One of Two
Like most people, I became aware of songwriter/ multi-instrumentalist/ actor...
Couplets Bounding Along with a Puckish Aplomb (and other delights) – Simon Love’s “Love, Sex and Death etc.”
Whatever level of lasting insight attainable to one engaged in this music-writing game – if any...
STEREO EMBERS SINGLE/VIDEO PREMIERE – “The Belleville Sun” from Gates of Light from Upcoming Album on Shimmy-Disc, Video by Renowned Scottish Film Director Grant McPhee
Y’know that beguiling blend of melancholy and quietly stubborn joy that pretty much defines the ‘it-ness’...