Nostalgia is a sensation as strong as any drug one could take, but it’s easy to miss out on your own growth if you’re only ever looking behind you. Oftentimes, our desire for the simpler days can lead to us…
‘Sweep It Into Space’ review: New for Dinosaur Jr. isn’t new for indie rock
By the time a band gets to their twelfth studio album, they typically fall under two schools of desperate thought: “let’s pump out as much of the same content as possible because it works,” or “crap, we really need to…
Album Review: The Fratellis – ‘Half Drunk Under a Full Moon’
The Fratellis have entered that awkward career midpoint for bands, where the tension between doing what comes easy to them and trying to expand their musical palette causes inevitable problems. In The Fratellis’ case, what comes easy to them is…
From the Record Crate: Bon Iver – ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ (2007)
Bon Iver is a legend of the unknown, and a relatively unknown legend. In 2006/07, Justin Vernon went into the forested wilderness of Midwest America and came back with an album so chilling, melancholy, and soberingly lonesome that it would…
‘Green to Gold’ review: The Antlers return with luscious, dreamy, introspective folk-pop
It’s always funny to me how easy it is to draw parallels between two completely unrelated things or events. In the case of the Antlers and their newest endeavor, Green to Gold, it’s very reminiscent of the last Beach Fossils…
‘Flowers for Vases / Descansos’ review: Hayley Williams rides on the coattails of female indie stars
Over the past fifteen-or-so years, Hayley Williams has expressed an ability to push forward, be creative, and forge her own identity among the other members of Paramore. The group’s first few releases erupted, making them likely the most popular female-lead…
‘Glowing in the Dark’ review: Django Django continue to destroy genres
The longer music develops, the more obsolete genre labels become, and Django Django’s newest release solidifies that fact. With a weird mesh of post-punk, psychedelia, and folk-rock—plus a few other detours—the group’s “sound” has transcended past singular words and phrases…