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“Fire, all around / Fire, in my heart and in the ground,” Glasgow’s Goliath, which is the brain child of Jack Fagan, sings on their debut album, Everyday Hymns. Jack and crew certainly have a fire in their bones and share something in common with other modern UK band collectives like Tapir! and Black Country, Continue reading "GOLIATH, EVERYDAY HYMNS"
“Lost boys, find me,” Phoebe Bridgers sings on her much anticipated album, Lost Weekend. Although I think that that might be one of the best songs of the year, I was a bit underwhelmed by the sixteen track album that just came out, even though it features an all-star cast of characters whom I admire Continue reading "PHOEBE BRIDGERS, LOST WEEKEND"
“I painted the frame of my mirror 59 colors / cuz I thought that would be a good way to spend a day,” surreal pop artist Morgan Weidinger sings on her latest album, Live To Tell No Tale. That kind of whimsy and wonder is expressed in a hundred quirky ways on the album, something Continue reading "MORGAN WEIDINGER, LIVE TO TELL NO TALE"
Blaring horns! Lush strings! Songs about the annoying neighborhood chihuahuah caught up in a pit bull’s jaws! Simon P Moore’s latest album, Simon P Moore Has Done and Gone Done the Gonest Thing, has it all—it is an epic adventure in storytelling and New Orleans-influenced singer songwriting decked-out with all the bells and whistles of Continue reading "SIMON P MOORE, SIMON P MORE HAS DONE AND…
“I am not me, just a meat suit with preference for reality frequency,” Kate Davis sings on her latest offering, a three song EP called Then We Could Be Together As A Family. It recalls the moving sounds “for soft boys” of her album Fish Bowl, and even starts with the line, “You’re a high Continue reading "KATE DAVIS, THEN WE COULD BE TOGETHER AS A FAMILY"
“And in this hollow I know we could be given a try / but it’s the same old joke and the same old script I write,” Seattle’s Erick Newbill who is known for his work with Subways on the Sun sings on his 10-track solo album, released in July of this year. He calls is Continue reading "ERICK NEWBILL, I JUST FORGOT MY LINES"
“Just a hundred words that I have for you / the same hundred words that I want from you,” Marketa Irglova sings to end the recent reunion release of Swell Season with old partner, Glen Hansard in 2025. It’s a bitter sweet listen, as Glen Hansard passed recently in motorcycle crash, hearing songs about not Continue reading "SWELL SEASON, FORWARD"
“Some days I might not feel like living / But something in us never dies.” With influences from Oasis to LCD Sound System to, dare I say, Youth Lagoon, Michigander’s Jason Singer manages to carve out a place in the music world with music that sounds completely his own. With his latest album, Over Before Continue reading "MICHIGANDER, OVER BEFORE YOU KNOW IT"
“The pleasure and agony’s all mine,” Hayley Williams sings on her new hit solo album Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party. There’s hints of her band Paramore, and many of the songs, if they lose their programmed-sounding beats and autotune background vocal flourishes, could be turned into emo songs, with ease. But like she’s said Continue reading "HAYLEY WILLIAMS, EGO DEATH AT THE BACHLORETTE PARTY"
“If your plans fall through, as they sometimes do, I think you oughta come see me.” Baltimore’s Bill Homans sings songs about the tenderness and tenuousness of love, with his band The Righteous Ramblers, on his latest album Got A Bad Habit which came out in July of this year. It’s the kind of band Continue reading "BILL HOMANS & THE RIGHTEOUS RAMBLERS, GOT A BAD HABIT"
