Azure Ray | Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor are Azure Ray. On Hold on Love, the ladies’ third full-length album, Azure Ray lets out an eloquent, reverberating, satisfying breath.
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Beep Beep | Great bands come few and far between these days. This is a sad truth. Fortunately, Saddle Creek provides yet another antidote to combat the insipid wave of releases currently flooding the New Arrivals... |
Bright Eyes | Bright Eyes is a band that has been making a buzz everywhere lately and in fat, I'm suprised that I'm the first one to add this artist. Bright Eyes is the Product of musical genius Conor Oberst.
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Broken Spindles | I wrote most of this record while on tour in the U.S.and Europe with The Faint and Beep Beep, sketching out ideas on my laptop after shows and before sound checks. Touring with a band, most of what yo... |
Criteria | ... |
Criteria | Picture, if you will, a diffident young professional. By day, he is entrenched in the beige, climate controlled world of corporate law.By night, he tirelessly melds face-searing riffs with pounding, s... |
Cursive | After more than a year's hiatus, Cursive's reemergence finds the freshly reconstituted quartet as self-assured and assertive as ever. And rather than retread familiar artistic ground for which they've... |
Desaparecidos | ... |
Eric Bachmann | Returning home from tour to no commonly-defined home, Eric Bachmann largely wrote his new album, To The Races, in June and July of 2005 while voluntarily living in the back of his van. Bachmann made t... |
The Faint | A lot has changed since 2001, the year The Faint released Danse Macabre. They were one of the better-kept secrets of the underground, playing to packed basements and popping up in the occasional fanzi... |
The Good Life | The Good Life started out as a means for Tim Kasher to use a songwriting approach that differed from his other projects (namely, Cursive), but it didn’t take long for the solo project to become a band... |
Maria Taylor | Maria Taylor doesn't scream her angst or snarl out her problems. She doesn't warble melismas with the glut of high-strung chart divas. With understated grace and aplomb, she writes the sort of classic... |
MAYDAY | ... |
Now It's Overhead | Now It’s Overhead has more than once evoked the term “dreamy.” Dark Light Daybreakis not exactly an exception – it’s awash in the band’s signature moody layers and wall of guitar. But if the previous... |
Orenda Fink | One of the reasons that I chose to make a solo record was that I was ready to take a different approach to songwriting than I had used previously with Azure Ray.After traveling extensively in India, C... |
Son, Ambulance | Here’s how it works: First, a few adorable songs are written by one Joe Knapp. Next, a think-tank is formulated between an ensemble and Presto producer/engineer A.J. Mogis. The result: The songs are f... |
Sorry About Dresden | ... |
Two Gallants | Bringing an infusion of bloody-knuckled punk energy to storytelling epics and tear-in-your-beer honky-tonk, the two musicians of Two Gallants had the balls to name themselves after a short story by Ja... |
