Erik BurgIt’s always exciting going into an album and having absolutely no idea what to expect. So, as I clicked play on the first track of the Nash Smith & Ganges EP, I was a bit caught off guard. The sun shining, the breeze blowing, I found...
NYC-based foursome Asobi Seksu — meaning “casual sex” in Japanese — released its newest album, Fluorescence, on February 15th. The dream pop escapist melodies are made for cruising the coast with a lover or plunging headfirst...
Vee Hua 華婷婷With every one-word, disgustingly pleasant band name, like Houses or Lovers, comes a flood of inferred qualities — those of washed out Polaroid aesthetics, massive synth usage, and healthy doses of male-female vocals. It is almost too...
With Young Man’s latest EP, Boy, it seems that singer-songwriter Colin Caulfield is very much entrenched in a past long gone. Boy‘s seven tracks are centered almost exclusively around themes of childhood and growing up, bearing song...
Maybe it should be said as a precursor to this review that I’m a complete sucker for most of what the music world likes to call “shoegaze,” so it goes without saying that I was an enormous fan of both of this Bay Area band’s...
Bugs, bats, flowers, nature, and squishy things blend atop each other in this abstract blur of a video for “Bicycle”, off of Memory Tapes’ first album, Seek Magic. Lots international Memory Tapes tour dates to come — a lot of...
Brenda is a three-piece (all male, naturally) pop-rock group from Portland, Maine, with a “sound firmly rooted in ’90s lo-fi and alt-pop,” according to their label. Their debut LP, Silver Tower, holds true to this assessment...
Allen Huang"... Brian Wilson became the central figure in my writing -- sort of an easy place to start in sorting through the intense emotions of that breakup and the process of making music." -- Charlie Gokey