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The Fledgeling EP – The Fledgelings
Turning twenty-one is the entry fee for a high stakes game. Thirteen is nothing but a reason to start “dating” or full price movie tickets or whatever it is that comes with being a teenager. Eighteen...
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Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
For most artists, the loss of hair coincides with the loss of relevance and sometimes identity. Dylan, who had endured being a “voice of a generation,” a brush with death, and a rebirth in Christ,...
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Violet – Cait Cuneo
Cait Cuneo brings New York glitz to the Pittsburgh music scene with her debut EP, Violet. The disc is bursting with high-class talent, understated but stylish instrumentation, and smooth soul. She...
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Fratercula Praematurus’ #1 Album of 2012: Cabaret by Moon Taxi
In a year of twists, turns, leaps and bounds for my musical sensibilities, Moon Taxi shines like a supernova to me. I had the pleasure of seeing the Nashville quintet on three separate occasions in...
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The Bears for Lunch – Guided By Voices
The Bears for Lunch continues GBV’s reunion with panache. 2012 was a great year to be a fan of Guided By Voices and a pretty good year to become a fan of Guided By Voices. The reunited classic lineup...
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The Chemical Wedding – Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson is primarily known for his soaring, operatic, and air-raid siren-esque vocals with one of my favorite bands of all time: British heavy metal titans Iron Maiden. Unbeknownst to many,...
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All Or Nothing – Joy Ike CD Release Party
Joy Ike is an artist I eagerly anticipate seeing every year. She’s an absolute wonder at WYEP’s Holiday Hootenanny when she performs and I’ve always thought of her as a headliner of every year of...
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The Moon & Antarctica – Modest Mouse
If you think “Float On” remains the career peak of indie rock giants Modest Mouse, turn your attention instead towards their third album The Moon & Antarctica, the group’s true magnum opus. Moon...
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Blue Moon EP – bassDrumsnareDrum
Jake Ridley of bassDrumsnareDrum has been busy since his debut EP, Pause/Rewind. He’s produced music for a feature film about a Peckham BMX Club and continued collaborations with a variety of London...
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The Shirks – The Shirks
Washington D.C. has a long history of “people doing something real.” Aside from sparking lunar missions, ending wars, and all of the other achievements of its infestation of politicians, D.C was the...
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Cutpurse – The Duskwhales
The Duskwhales’ Cutpurse is sown together with as many musical styles as the patchwork images of its album cover. The Duskwhales have a real spirit of adventure to their music and when their diverse...
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Epic Cycle – Epic Cycle
It’s a confident band that willingly labels itself a jam band. For a band to openly declare itself a “jam band” it must not only be confident enough to take abuse from the legions who passionately...
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Recover EP – Chvrches
Chvrches new EP, Recover, is proof that a lot can happen in a year. The band’s dazzling electro-pop, built around Iain Cook’s and Martin Doherty’s dual swirling synthesizer and Lauren Mayberry’s...
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Onward, Good Christian Gangbanger: Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.d. City
Kendrik Lamar’s alter ego K.Dot in Good Kid, M.A.A.d City is just a good kid in the midst of Compton, CA, the backdrop and birthplace of the rap albums whose gritty stories of the city’s temptation,...
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Le Bal Du Rat Mort – Kabul Golf Club
Belgium’s Kabul Golf Club first EP, Le Bal Du Rat Mort, isn’t especially palatable, but it’s approachable. That’s saying a lot for a band which is influenced by and aspires to post-hardcore or...
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Ezra Koenig teaches time management
Congratulations, everyone. Ezra Koenig is now openly singing about death, for nearly an entire recording. And he’s not being too incredibly subtle about it. What has the world come to? What’s going on...
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Pretty Please – Delicious Pastries
The hardest part about a revival is getting people interested in what is being resurrected. You’ve got to convince the audiences that bringing something back to life is a good idea. It’s not enough to...
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Shake the Baron – Ghost Hits
Shake the Baron is a band hailing from Brooklyn, New York, the borough that has brought us the neuroticism of Woody Allen to the brutal depression of The National. They play a brand of rock music that...
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Deerhunter – Monomania
Have you ever seen something so ugly that you wanted to shove it under a microscope and get as close a look as you could at it? See it for what it truly is? Learn things about it that no else would...
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My Bloody Valentine – m b v
It was over 21 years ago that Loveless, My Bloody Valentine’s monumental shoegazing achievement, was released. In fact, the album shipped out only a few weeks after I was born. It was adored by a...
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