Nov 08, 2018
By Matt Conner
Low
If you’re looking for someone to congratulate (or blame), Alan Sparhawk points to Dave Fridmann. It was over a decade ago when Sparhawk and his wife Mimi Parker, the core members of Low, joined forces with Fridmann, the famed producer for The Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse, and Sleater-Kinney among others, for the first of two consecutive albums, 2005’s The Great Destroyer and 2007’s Drums and Guns. More
Nov 07, 2018
By Lee Adcock
Flasher
I changed a Flasher lyric. No, really. When the Washington, D.C. trio first dropped their deterministic anthem “Skim Milk” back in March, the line “garment of vivid pink” sounded to me like “gone in a vivid pink.” More
Nov 06, 2018
By Matt Conner
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For the last decade-and-a-half, the two lone members of El Ten Eleven—guitarist/bassist Kristian Dunn and drummer Tim Fogarty—have largely eschewed any outside collaboration or input into their buoyant brand of post-rock. More
Nov 05, 2018
By Bekki Bemrose
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In 2018 Black Belt Eagle Scout, aka Katherine Paul, issued one of the debut records of the year. Mother of My Children is a deeply personal rumination on love and loss, but it’s also an indie-rock album that is charged with Paul’s identity as an indigenous, queer woman.
Nov 01, 2018
By Kyle Mullin
Jim James
Some singer/songwriters are content to write protest songs during times of political turmoil, if they write protest songs at all. But not Jim James. More
Oct 31, 2018
By Natasha Aftandilians
Issue #64 - Kamasi Washington
On “Complications,” the second track from Interpol‘s latest record, Marauder, frontman Paul Banks sings “dream of combinations/all night long/round and round a rhythm escapes/I’m stuck without no answers.” More
Oct 30, 2018
By Laura Stanley
Bernice
The music of Toronto band Bernice (whose current line-up is Robin Dann, Thom Gill, Dan Fortin, Felicity Williams, and Phil Melanson) is a melange of sounds and textures. Their sophomore album, Puff LP: In the air without a shape, is a playful recording that, moving in unexpected directions, incorporates pop, R&B, jazz, and electronic elements. More
Oct 29, 2018
By Matt Conner
Trevor Powers
To begin, a few things about mulberry trees. The mulberry has stood as a symbol of patience and wisdom throughout the ages, a symbol of calculated restraint. It is, by all present appearances, a necessary icon for our divided times, a present political state in which basic human dignity is often forgotten. More