Tension and Torque, Music as Conversation – An Interview with Ganser’s Alicia Gaines
2020 was this. 2020 was that. However one fills in those blanks one thing it profoundly...
Author: Dave Cantrell
STEREO EMBERS VIDEO PREMIER – “How Can I Keep it Alive” from Glasgow’s Sister John
For all you home bred musicologists out there, you know as well as we do the...
STEREO EMBERS VIDEO PREMIER – “Love Poem” from Andrew Lessman-led LA Ensemble TEETHERS’ Self-Titled Debut EP
‘Accretion’ is a too-seldom used word, especially given its applicability to life itself. What is progress...
The Implicit Harmony of History: Alpha Cat’s “Pearl Harbor 2020” & Arrica Rose And The …’s “Technicolor Blue”
In the interests of efficiency and a directness that this current moment in history rather insists...
New, Kramer-produced Emily Rodgers album announced. “I Will Be Gone” to be released on Shimmy-Disc April 16th, arrives on DSPs today. Hear the moving title track below.
With luck and an open heart, there are pockets of stunningly quiet knowledge there for discovery...
Opaque Incandescence – “Songs of Love and Revolution” from The Telescopes
For a handful of artists/bands – The Fall, Swans, Kristin Hersh to name a quick three...
Power and Nuance – The Stunning “Black Swan” Album from Push/Button/Press
There is perhaps nothing that more clearly reveals the essential ‘who’ of who we are than...
A Blessing Beyond Reckoning – The Palace of Tears’ Debut Full-Length “Of Ruination”
Well, you’ve gotta give us this: when we miss, we miss. Though it was painstakingly acknowledged...
Victor Montes and Dave Cantrell Present the Fifty Most Significant Post-Punk/Darkwave/Synthpop/etc Albums of 2020
Indicative of both this author’s flagging memory and the momentum-gathering imperative that casts increasing doubt on the validity...
QUARANTINE AGE KICKS Vol. 8 – “Another World” by The Flat Five & “Thunderclouds” by Louis Philippe & The Night Mail
The Flat Five “Another World” on Pravda Records (released November 13th, 2020) Let’s make this brief....