The Early Life Of A Saint – An Interview with Ed Kuepper
A year ago this month, Ed Kuepper came to town. To say it was...
Author: Dave Cantrell
The Secret History Take Thirty Years Off Our Lives with “Americans Singing in the Dark”
Lately I’ve found myself reviewing albums that have betrayed strong genetic characteristics to one or another...
The Twenty-Two Trump Debut of Speedy Ortiz
Endowed with a passive-aggressive indifference (which is to say petulant, but not too) as readily evidenced...
Octopus Project Get Feverish
First a drift of feedback, then a series of bass drum/bass synth thumps that land like...
Auteurs of the Transfixing: Strange Harvest’s Arresting Second Album
On the off chance you’ve wondered what Nancy & Lee would sound like had they emerged...
Light Heat Walks Into “The Mirror”
It’s been almost a decade since Philly auteur Quentin Stoltzfus issued a record, the surpassingly good We’re...
Spectrals’ “Sob Story” Tears It Up
From the off, on Spectrals’ new album Sob Story, we’re treated to a twanging earnestness that’s...
The Post-Luminous Pop of Factory Kids
I’m a big fan of Fischer-Z, especially their first two albums, and on 1979 debut Word Salad‘s...
Sonny & The Sunsets Hurl The Past Into The Afterworld (Like Ya Do)
Sonny Smith is one of the busiest musicians on this planet or any other. He’s also...
Hardly Underachievers – A Look Back At Camera Obscura’s Sophomore Album
Sophomore syndrome? What’s that? Underachievers Please Try Harder, Camera Obscura’s second album, this time self-produced with the...