There are few bands from the 2001-2003 screamo explosion that have lasted as well and as long as Thursday has. While some bands (Finch, Glasseater) broke up or reformed, others such as Thrice and Senses Fail have altered their sounds dramatically to...
Taking on a cover album by one of the biggest legends in country music is an impressive feat. Doing it tastefully is a whole other story. Matthew Houck, or Phosphorescent as he is more commonly known, is an accomplished musician in his own right...
Almost entirely living up to their moniker, The Curious Mystery have released a debut album that has immediately raised some perplexing quandaries in my mind. Namely: why, if you had a vocalist with as potently sensual a voice as The Curious...
Scott Pinkmountain (formerly Scott Rosenberg) apparently used to be a somewhat hot-shit Bay Area avant-garde composer/free jazz saxophonist, but then decided that by immersing himself in that music, he’d forgotten the importance of good...
Craft museums are always interesting places, even if you don’t care much for crafts yourself. Crafty folks just have an innate ability to create displays and installations that make good use of three-dimensional space without feeling cluttered...
My mother sends me forwarded e-mail chains all the time. Most of them are not worth forwarding or even mentioning ever again. But once in a while, there are some artistic gems, and this is one of them. Albania’s Saimir Strati is one talented...
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