Lingering Beauty and Melancholia – Matteah Baim’s “Falling Theater”
While it’s not as easy to hear the spook and scrape of Matteah Baim’s early ‘soft...
Author: Dave Cantrell
SHADOWPLAY – Tense Men “Where Dull Care Is Forgotten,” Protomartyr “Under Color of Official Right,” Makthaverskan “II”
Aside from Attrix Records (profiled here), Brighton, on the south coast of England, hasn’t much been...
The NEXT Twenty Current Post-Punk Bands You Should Know About
This was a tough call. We have other wonderfully mind-blowing post-punk...
EXCLUSIVE FIRST LISTEN! Brand new track from Cinema Cinema’s upcoming album “A Night At The Fights”
The pummeling two-piece band Cinema Cinema from Brooklyn makes a sound like a horde of Thors...
The Supreme Confidence Game – Ashley Reaks’ Astonishing “Compassion Fatigue (1-8)”
A couple weeks ago Stereo Embers published its best-of-2014-so-far list, thirty-five albums representing the top five...
A Gaze Beyond Shoegaze – A Sunny Day In Glasgow’s “Sea When Absent”
Oh the ambivalence inherent in shoegaze. On the one hand, its roaring soaring wall-of-sound dynamic is...
Power Transition – Aurelio Valle of Calla brings his Solo Debut
I don’t know if you remember Calla or not but they were a bracing breath of...
Nuanced in Triplicate – Tommy Wallach’s “I Meant It To Be Sweet”
How do they do it, these hyper-talented artists that create across a variety of platforms at...
The 10 Most Essential Record Labels of the Post-Punk Era You’ve Probably Never Heard Of (And Why They Mattered)
Like the first few honeymoon years after a revolutionary war, the early years that followed the...
Stereo Embers’ TRACK OF THE DAY: The Jasmine Minks’ “You Broke More Than Just Your Mother’s Heart”
There are few as highly cherished around the hallways of SE than the Jasmine Minks. The...