In Review: "A Turn of Breath" Ian William Craig (Recital) This album is pure beauty – probably one of the most stunning and powerful releases I’ve heard in the past few months. Ian William Craig is a trained opera singer…
Artist: Mac Demarco Album: Salad Days Label: Captured Tracks What a silly, soulful sloth. What a bed-wraggled, mopey-eyed, prankster. Mac Demarco was drinking last night, and this morning he regurgitated an album. He must have been eating some brassica veggies…
Artist: Lil Bibbya Album: Free Crack Label: Self-released Seventeen-year-old Chicago drill rapper Lil Bibby has music typical of the drill subgenre.  I was disappointed, because a lot of this was “no play,†but I love this type of music.  The…
As I sat in the library listening to New Manners’s EP, I plugged into transformational sounds that could have easily been the soundtrack to an indie-teen movie starring and angst-y Miles Teller (alla Spectacular Now). The soft alternative rock sounds…
So THAT’S what Americana is. This is the first album I have heard that truly seems to invite me to witness the home life of a family. Growing up, the Haden Triplets were surrounded by old country songs, Yiddish songs,…
Album: Ballerina Arcade Artist: Graham Repulski Label: All Tens Music An 8-minute, moody lo-fi ride, Graham Repulski's latest EP Ballerina Arcade combines everything fuzzy and hard to understand in a way that plays quite a bit like an homage to…
The first song "Cock Worship" stops off with a very slow section, which lasts about two seconds before the madness begins. Â These two seconds are some of the only moments of refuge from the driving and aggressive, hardcore hooks that…
CLAMS CASINO; Instrumental Mixtape 3; Self-Released The third and supposedly final mixtape in Clams Casino’s series of instrumental releases of rap productions compares well to the first two. Casino includes instrumental versions of productions for rappers, an instrumental song he…
Crisis Arm are without a doubt one of the most hardworking bands I can think of. As a matter of fact, every time I talk to them they are working on a new release. They are also the embodiment of…