Singer-songwriter is a pretty broad characterization. It could range from an indie folkie like Bon Iver to an icon like Prince. But it’s the only category that can appropriately define Rayland Baxter’s new EP, ashkeLon. Baxter started buzzing last year from the attention surrounding his full-length release with ATO Records, feathers and fishHooks. Paste Magazine
Looking at the past three years, it wouldn’t be presumptuous to assume that No Age was in a deep, deep slumber. At last, the L.A.-based duo of Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt have released their third full-length record, An Object. Their latest effort is definitely a summer album, but not in the classic sense
At this point, the name Ty Segall has become almost synonymous with prolific. Just last year, he released three albums and started 2013 by announcing yet another project – Fuzz – that’s set to release its debut album in September. Before we get too ahead of ourselves, however, Segall released another album under his own
The Australian quintet Pond is only five years old and is already proving to be quite the prolific group. Pond released Hobo Rocket, in the US August 6 on Modular People Records. In a fit of unabashed frankness we can admit that this album might not be for everyone. It’s abrasive. It’s unrelenting. At its
If it seems like the move from electronic to analog, or analog to electronic has become somewhat of a tired eventuality for musicians looking to shake-up their sound, then tread lightly around reviews for Paracosm. It’s not that this is a completely false premise, or even a bad way to approach Washed Out’s latest LP.
Music history has a long line of husband and wife duos: Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, The Weepies Deb Talan and Steven Tannen, Johnny and June Cash, maybe Jack and Meg White? Here is a new couple for the list: Daniel and Lauren Goans, the married members of Lowland Hum. Like all great
Ephemera: (Noun.) Things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time. It is also the apt and ironic title of Tan Vampires’ new 6-song album. Apt in the sense that the album deals with the unsettled feeling left by transient relationships. Ironic, because the EP itself is hardly transient and the
It’s not very often you’ll stumble upon a husband and wife musical duo who are so good at their craft you wish you could do the same with your other half. But when you actually do, they’re usually those on the it list of legends and already in a league of their own. For example,
Cale Tyson’s new seven-song EP High On Lonesome sounds like it was made before his parents were born. Contrary to his throwback sound, Cale Tyson is actually a twenty-something songwriter out of Ft. Worth, Texas who moved to Nashville to pursue music in the vein of George Jones and Jimmie Rodgers. Much like Gram Parsons,
Barbarossa’s got some flavor. And yes, a red beard. This particular beard is the musical moniker of Londoner James Mathé, who released an acoustic debut back in 2008, toured as part of the live band with Jose Gonzalez (who he sounds strikingly similar to vocally), and is now releasing his second full length, Bloodlines. On