The Best Wind That’s Ever Knocked You Sideways – “I Will Cut Your Heart Out For This” by Bloody Knives
When it first starts, with a percussive aggressive flash of howling noise on a track called “Cystic,”...
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A Lot of Busy in that Jangle – “The Wonderful Shapes of Back Door Keys” by The Prophet Hens
One of the more fascinating aspects to this music writing gig, at least to a certifiable...
Intelligent, Hand-Crafted Country Rock out of Brooklyn – The Self-titled Debut from Girls on Grass
Fueled by persistence, fortuitous circumstance, and the bonhomie and goodwill of musicians from the sawdust-floored bars...
Summer Hope Springs Eternal – “Songs Are Easy” from Blue Jeans
Drenched in a gently flooded reverb and filled to the brimmermost with pop aspiration, Songs Are...
Summer Daze II – The Stereo Embers Summer Playlist 2016
While wanting to wish all our American readers a happy Fourth of July, we here at SEM,...
SHADOWPLAY – A Darkwave, Post-Punk Overview – BOOTBLACKS “Veins,” ROSALUX “Rosalux,” AVIARIES “Aviaries”
Happiest time of my writing day is when I get to sit down and get editorially...
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE PREMIER – First track from Sophe Lux & The Mystic’s debut album “All Are One”
It’s a matter of received wisdom that Portland is home to a world-class field of artists...
The Suavest Vibe of the Year from the Most Pop-Intelligent Guy in the Room – Popincourt’s “A New Dimension To Modern Love”
While coined originally as a term to define the literal smashing together of one song into...
Wielding Passion – In Letter Form’s “Fracture. Repair. Repeat.”
Fracture. Repair. Repeat. opens with a fiery sermon’s brief excerpt the concluding line of which, spoken...
The Ninth NEXT Twenty Post-Punk Bands You Should Know About
As with most things, there are two competing ways of looking at this whole ‘NEXT’ business....