The Sure Voice Sounding Inside A Complicated Darkness – “Fierce” by Hante.
Sometimes it just happens. Regardless how much you’ve anticipated an upcoming release making a strongly favorable...
Author: Dave Cantrell
Drifting With Force Through a Rocking Cinematic Fantasyland – Lester Square’s Marvelous “Chautauqua”
Should one be fortunate – if it be indeed considered so – to begin reaching a...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIER – “A Night in Reverse” from new post-punk duo Totem featuring Metro Cult’s Christoffer Bagge
Just about the coolest thing about being SEM’s so-called ‘post-punk professor’, even as it’s a title...
Snapping With A Soulful Authority – “Inside Out,” Bernard Fowler’s Stunning Re-imagining of the Rolling Stones
Art’s a funny business. This is true from an almost infinite amount of angles. With the...
That Twin Inside Her – Band of Susans guitarist Karen Haglof’s Third Solo Album “Tobiano”
An artistic impulse put on hold too often proves to be the emotional equivalent of a...
Comfort and Challenge from a New Jersey Dream Team of a Band: “Sparks Like Little Stars” by The Campfire Flies
Y’know, we all know them. People made of music. Individuals who, it would seem, have bloodstreams...
A Gritty Beautiful Business – Viking Moses’ “Cruel Child”
Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour has gone on now for so long – 2019 marks its...
A Forceful, Eloquent Work – Robert Forster’s “Inferno”
For forever I’ve wondered: How do they do that? How do they make the ‘deceptively simple’...
Toward the Stubborn, Invincible Presence of Beauty – The Telescopes “Exploding Head Syndrome”
More than just about any other band, writing about the Telescopes is eerily similar to listening...
Tender Mercies Wryly Parsed – Bill Pritchard’s “Midland Lullabies”
Wanna make a stripped-down singer-songwriter record that, for the most part, is naught but your voice...