Exclusive STEREO EMBERS video preview – Knowlton Bourne’s “Hangin’ Around”
Existential slacker blues nonpareil, Mississippi’s favorite son Knowlton Bourne has produced a debut record that deserves...
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LIGHTNING STRIKES – Quick but essential reviews for the discerning listener
Welcome again to Lightning Strikes, the place to come to when you want to know what...
If A Heart Could Think – Robert Forster’s “Songs To Play”
You can never be sure, exactly, why it happens with a select handful of artists, you...
LIGHTNING STRIKES – Quick but essential reviews for the discerning listener
Finally getting a chance to tidy up a couple of loose summertime ends, SEM takes advantage...
The Expected Unexpected – Ashley Reaks’ “Before Koresh”
Some records arrive like personal events. The next Bastards of Fate album will be one of...
Stereo Embers EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREVIEW – HUGElarge’s cover of doo-wop classic “Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)”
Here’s how their publicist, very astutely, describes HUGElarge: “2 dapper gents + 1 cocktail drum +...
Stereo Embers EXCLUSIVE ALBUM STREAM – Presents For Sally’s second album “Colours & Changes”
Just recently we made the comment about Saint Marie Records that “the relatively young label among our...
LIGHTNING STRIKES – Quick but essential reviews for the discerning listener
Finally volume two (which happens to contain an album called “Vol. 4”, confusingly enough) of SEM’s...
The Sixth NEXT Twenty Post-Punk Bands You Should Know About
The months fly by, the bands pile up, and if we don’t relieve the pressure over...
Stereo Embers TRACK OF THE DAY – “Vast Division” by Indian Jewelry
A Houston-based band that suggests Siouxsie Sioux coming to her heavy-lidded post-punked goth via the outer...