Keith Cushner"I feel like music can put thoughts in people's minds. It's there to lay blueprints." -- Phil Moore
Maybe I’m over this whole winter thing. Maybe I’m not getting enough sleep. Whatever it is, though, Julie Doiron sounds the way fresh green grass, cold blue sky, and riding your bike with the sun on your back feels. Most of...
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...
On first listen, I can already picture Stencil. They’re likely a bunch of dudes, each with progressively longer beards. A couple are wearing beanies, and the rest are wearing button up shirts, with the sleeves slightly rolled up — once...
There seems to be a folky revolution in the works. Maybe it’s always been there; it’s hard to tell for sure. But regardless, a neighborhood of Langhorne Slim, Blitzen Trapper, The Avett Brothers, etc., is suburban-sprawling like a...
Allen HuangA journey to the sea sometimes is a ritual — an escape from the responsibilities and tribulations that lurk around every corner in the big cities. For school kids, a trip to the sea is almost a requirement for the perfect summer vacation. For...
Vee Hua 華婷婷An sepia-tinted image of an army of skulled soldiers is a good way to be introduced to any band. Thoughts of creepy, dark experimental music comes to mind, but Bravo Johnson is not quite that predictable. In actuality, The Crooked And The Straight...