A Bracing Subtlety – “Perfect Life” from Demitasse
Previously unfamiliar with this project (even as this is Demitasse’s third outing), there are, coming in,...
Author: Dave Cantrell
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREVIEW: “Johnnie” by Close Lobsters
Jangling close to the jugular, Paisley-based Scots Close Lobsters return to the fray with enough fervor...
A Holy Writ to an Unholy Prospect – “Immanent Fire” by Emily Jane White
As the opening lines below make clear, what follows was originally meant to be the seventh...
A Few We Missed Vol. 6 – “Round One” by Jumpstarted Plowhards (released 10/4/2019)
Is anything instigated by mike watt anything less than a gutteral and/or visceral and/or adventurous delight?...
A Few We Missed, Vol. 5 – “1 Verse” from Seattle band Society of the Silver Cross (released 6/28/2019)
The received wisdom as to why we traipse around the evolving landscape of so-called popular/rock music...
A Few We Missed, Vol. 4 & 4.1 – the black watch’s “Magic Johnson” and “31 Years of Obscurity: The Best of the black watch 1988-2019” (both released on ATOM Records, 06/21/2019)
A while back I tried to divorce myself from all writerly activities that fell outside the...
A Few We Missed, Vol. 3 – “The Big Sleep: Future” by Golden Ghost (released 08/16/2019)
One seldom encounters a young label that exhibits quite the exacting, carefully curated aesthetic as has...
A Few We Missed, Vol. 2 – David Norland “Glam Tear Stain” (released 11/1/2019)
Beyond earning 2019’s runaway best-album-title-of-the-year award (how many of you out there just flinched with envy,...
A Few We Missed, Vol. 1 – SALT “The Loneliness of Clouds” (released 06/07/2019)
Posit the Posies’ Ken Stringfellow (as both performer and producer), quirk pop maestro Anton Barbeau, and...
BOY HANTE. – Victor Montes and Dave Cantrell Present Their Top 30 Post-Punk/Darkwave Albums of 2019
The usual superlatives paired with rampant expressions of enthusiasm is endemic this time of the year...