Pathos and Panache – The Life and Death of The Jazz Butcher as Told Through Final Album “The Highest in the Land”
Like the perpetual underdog with a dogged belief in his own creative chops, Pat Fish, AKA...
Author: Dave Cantrell
STEREO EMBERS VIDEO PREMIERE – “Where is My Happiness?” by OG New Zealand Post-Punks Vietnam
There is this conundrum when it comes to our response to art, an emotional paradox of...
Guileless, Endearing Intelligent Indie Pop – “I’ve Been Trying…” by Pioneer Falls
Ahh the sinuous and subtly insistent ways life finds to tie us together. Up until a...
Stereo Embers’ TRACK OF THE DAY – Luscious Apparatus’ “Infiltrate”
While the dividing line that separates a, say, 2021 from a 2022 is arbitrary enough to...
A Haunted New Earth – Victor Montes and Dave Cantrell Present the Best of 2021’s Darkwave/Post-Punk/EBM/Synthwave
It’s a hell of a task. In fact, it is such a hell of a task that it...
STEREO EMBERS WORLD ALBUM PREMIERE – Prodigal Country-Rocker Eric Schroeder’s Third Full-Length “The Crucifixion of Eric Schroeder”
In what is almost certainly our last album premiere of the year, and seeing as we...
TRIPTYCH INTO DARKNESS – GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS “Fallacy of Fairness” / CHILD OF NIGHT “The Walls at Dawn” / KOIKOI “Pozivi u strana”
GIRLFRIENDS AND BOYFRIENDS “Fallacy of Fairness” (Oráculo Records / FDH Records) Every one of us leaves...
Just in Time for Bandcamp Friday – “In Regulated Time” from Philadelphia’s Silence Kit; 15-Year REMASTERED Edition
So, the received wisdom regarding the early 21st century darkwave revival is that it kind of...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREVIEW + INTERVIEW – “And The Wind Blew It All Away,” from Kramer, First Solo Record in 23 Years
As I write this the world, our world, teeters on so many brinks you’d need a...
A Wildly Satisfying Feast of Versatility – The Self-titled Debut Album from The Lord Baltimores
Out of self-preservation, which is to say an at least minimal maintenance of my sanity, I...