Wray: Shoegaze For The Dance Floor Emanuele Calianno September 8, 2014 Goings-On Wray play a distinctively energetic and fuzzy vein of what they like to call “powergaze.” With a thumping and powerful outer shell with a softer center styled after Jesus And The Mary Chain and The Cure, they p...
Valery Gore: Idols In The Dark Heart Emanuele Calianno September 1, 2014 Albums Almost as if apologizing for Celine Dion, Canada has produced in the last decade some of the best female artists in alternative pop. After Emily Haines of Metric, Tegan And Sara and Amy Millan of Stars, ano...
Elephant Stone: The Three Poisons Emanuele Calianno September 1, 2014 Albums Neo-psychedelia is a dangerous genre to tinker with nowadays, with the risk of sounding predictable or even banal always posed by decades of attempts to revamp a genre that was short-lived to begin with. Co...
A Million Billion Dying Suns: A Million Billion Dying Suns Emanuele Calianno September 1, 2014 Albums The word "transcendental" has often been adopted, without fully grasping its meaning, by those feeling self-indulgent or otherwise special. With their nonchalant cosmicism and a name like A Million Billion ...
The Handsome Family: Uniquely Magical Emanuele Calianno August 27, 2014 Goings-On The Handsome Family are a unique duo breaking new ground with an old style of music— Americana. Their songs are quiet, wistful, primal and at times eerily haunting, all telling lush stories with a complex lyric...
Southern Hospitality: Roots Reimagined Emanuele Calianno August 27, 2014 Goings-On Southern Hospitality, a Memphis-based Southern rock trio, have been making a name for themselves as an up-and-coming Midwestern sensation, one that is making new fans at every show. Combining their passion for ...
Somos: Temple Of Plenty Emanuele Calianno August 27, 2014 Albums Listening to this record, the words "pop punk" emerge blatantly throughout, yet they never manage to capture more than half of this band’s sound. At its core, the album is exactly that— short, punchy altern...
Midnight High: Midnight High Emanuele Calianno August 13, 2014 Albums Take a load of white laundry and mix it with rock, reggae, metal and hip-hop. Aside from sinfully disregarding everything your disappointed mother taught you, you’ll end up with the colorful mix proposed by...
The Futures League: Don’t Be A Drag Emanuele Calianno August 13, 2014 Albums The Futures League are an indie group from Los Angeles. Don’t Be A Drag, their debut release, is a five-song EP that packs a punch of rock ‘n’ roll in many of its forms, while sticking to its most effective...
Vinyl Thief: Fathoms Emanuele Calianno August 13, 2014 Albums Converting an old church sanctuary into a practice room, members of Nashville-based Vinyl Thief began making music in 2012, adopting electronic rock as their outlet of choice. After putting out an EP last M...
