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The Miami's reinvented songs strike a modern chord
Slave songs developed to encode the experience of temporal suffering and the longing for Earthly emancipation into the language of religious suffering and heavenly freedom. The hopes and fears of...
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Access vs. Exposure, or Why I Don't Write Bad Reviews Anymore
Plants and Animals‘ The End of That enthusiastically and successfully combines “Wonderwall”-esque Brit-pop with modern indie bombast a la Frightened Rabbit (“Lightshow,” “2010”). If you’re excited...
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"This might be a mess.""Let's do it anyway."
“If there’s no grand cultural war left for you to wage, how are you supposed make friction? Indie rock responded by fanning out into a thousand sub-genre deltas, each with their own set of reference...
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Quick Hits Quartet
I love doing long reviews, but SXSW has thrown me off my game. To catch up, here’s a rare quartet of quick hits. — Dana Falconberry‘s four-song Though I Didn’t Call It Came is a beautiful, immersing...
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Slim Loris / Way Yes
Slim Loris hails from Stockholm, Sweden, but you’d never be able to tell based on their sound. They play folky Americana with Shins-esque indie-pop leanings, which should perk up the ears of any...
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DIY Ditty: Some things you need to know about PR and management
PR and management are two aspects of a professional career that can be non-obvious to a band first venturing into those territories. They can seem mysterious, nonsensical, towering, or even...
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