LIGHTNING STRIKES – Quick but essential reviews for the discerning listener
Commencing a long overdue column here at SEM, we present the inaugural installment of Lightning Strikes,...
Author: Dave Cantrell
The Eternal Teenage Tremble of the Rock’n’roll Heart – Stray Cats “Live at Rockpalast”
It’s always curious, isn’t it, when the revival overshadows the originators? In the otherwise staid days...
Stereo Embers TRACK OF THE DAY – Deadcuts (feat. members of Miranda Sex Garden, Senseless Things, Wonder Stuff and Queen Adrena) “Summon the Witches
Summoning not just witches but memories of the Libertines at their most rockingly shockingly dissolute (assuming...
Stereo Embers TRACK OF THE DAY – “Cataract” by Dirty Ghosts
Tracing a rambunctious, post-punked new wave vibe that revivifies memories of bands...
SHADOWPLAY – A Post-Punk, Darkwave Overview – The Agnes Circle “Modern Ideas” EP, Hemgraven “Sanddyner Av Glas,” Population “Beyond The Pale”
For all the explosive growth in what might be called the post-punk cottage industry around the...
The Sneaky Complexities Inside the Teen Men Pop Machine
How many times I gotta say this? One of the premier joys – if not the premier...
Stereo Embers TRACK OF THE DAY – Fever the Ghost’s “Vervain (Dreams of an Old Wooden Cage)”
Emerging fully formed as a force of pure creative impetus out of the none-more-fertile Silverlake/Echo Park...
SEM’s Top 20 Albums of 2015 So Far…
“We are not the same persons this year as last,” wrote W. Somerset Maugham. Well, to...
A Complex, Primal Embroidery of Sound – “Portal/Well” by Insect Ark
Music is an architecture, yes, but at its more primal it’s a landscape, fired by elements...
Exclusive SEM First View – the black watch’s “Beautiful Sleeper” video just released, off upcoming album “highs & lows”
After rather rapturously receiving black watch’s most recent album sugarplum fairy, sugarplum fairy back in January, SEM...