Wavvves (3 v’s) is the second full-length album from Wavves (2 v’s), the pseudonym of San Diego musician Nathan Williams. This album radiates with the atmosphere of Williams’s laid-back hometown, helping to create fuzzy, relaxed beach punk reminiscent of surf…
Blanketship, AKA, turntable-list Jared Blum of San Francisco, has (gracefully) spit out his fourth album, 'The Sound of Fun Surrounds You/Klangwunder'. Beware of the bizarre alien sounds in KLANGWUNDER! Blanketship’s conduction takes us on a ride through a collage of…
The first Night Control album took more than 10 years to get here, but it was so deeply worth the wait. Lovingly assembled by our friends at Kill Shaman, �Death Control� collects the best of a massive back-catalog of unreleased…
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn makes beautiful music based mostly around her picked guitar and amazing voice. This is her fourth solo album, and first since 2004's 'C'mon Miracle' (separated by her collaboration with Spectratone International on the also excellent 'Share…
tUnE-YaRds is a one-woman (Merrill Garbus) creative force. As a graduate of Smith College, she knows what us elitist liberal arts students want, and does a great job making it: unique yet instantly accessible pop music. 'BiRd-BrAiNs', recorded over 2.5…
Sure, Pitzer kids talk a lot more than they act and don't show up to awesome KSPC Blowouts like they should (granted, it's a long walk to Doms, and Pomona kids don't show up either), but let me tell you:…
Washington D.C. based singer/songwriter Benjy Ferree is back with his second major release, a concept album, 'Come Back to the Five and Dime Bobby Dee Bobby Dee'. The album is loosely based on the tragic life of Bobby Driscoll, the…
This is the 6th solo release from Mark Nelson, the guitarist/vocalist from the excellent Labradford, the 5th on the estimable Kranky Records. As Pan-American, Nelson makes minimalist electronic music, teetering on the brink of ambience, with an organic bent -…
This is the 6th release by David Merulla of NYC, AKA Autumn in Halifax. AiH makes mellow and homey tunes (just how I like 'em), and Merulla acknowledged this album as an effort to create a poppier release. While I…
The Brooklyn improvisational robo-psychedelia quartet, Psychic Ills, debuted in 2006 with their acclaimed album, Dins. The band just liberated their second album, Mirror Eye. The record is intoxicatingly groovy: an eclectic compilation of synth sounds and primitive beats. A notably…
M. Ward's specialty is singing about the universal and timeless theme of all music (love) with a great voice. You can just as easily imagine listening to him sing these songs while riding a train across the country in the…
DJ Cosmonaut here, and I'm going to be writing about one of my favorite musicians. Calvin Johnson, born in Olympia, WA in 1962, founded K Records in 1982 and the label has been going strong since. Chances are if you…
The follow-up to the excellent and highly-acclaimed 'For Emma, Forever Ago' shows that Justin Vernon (the man behind Bon Iver) could be a songwriter with some staying power. This album reveals that Vernon can consistently write good songs, yet isn't…