It’s abnormal to create an original sound in today’s landscape. Genres ape other genres, with rising musical movements hailed as revolutionary when they are simply poor stepchildren of previous inventions.
Category: Review
Review: Helio Sequence, NegotiationsReview: Helio Sequence, Negotiations
Art museums are places I enjoy when I’m in them — in fact I enjoy them more than I think I will — but they’re never places I yearn to
Review: California Wives, Art HistoryReview: California Wives, Art History
A problem arises when modern bands comprised of members who were born in the 1980s try to replicate vintage music from the 1980s, especially to those of us who lived
Review: Dreamers of the Ghetto, Enemy/LoverReview: Dreamers of the Ghetto, Enemy/Lover
For whatever reason, during each listen of Enemy/Lover, the debut album from Indiana’s Dreamers of the Ghetto, my mind invariably references “Big,” the 1988 film starring Tom Hanks. The movie
Review: Sun Kil Moon, Among the LeavesReview: Sun Kil Moon, Among the Leaves
For many years I worked in jobs centered around daily deadlines, where at a certain time of each day I had to pick up my pace and finish. Sometimes I
Review: Wintersleep, Hello HumReview: Wintersleep, Hello Hum
I have a bias for Canadian bands, and can you blame me? Arcade Fire, The New Pornographers, Metric, The Weakerthans – some of the finest albums made in the past
Review: Jack White, BlunderbussReview: Jack White, Blunderbuss
Jack White is flake. First thing, Jack: I know you enjoy looking like a vampire, but you are not a vampire, OK? They don’t exist — the fact you can