Songs That You Might Not Like
My attraction to BOAT stems from a love of eccentric, "sloppy pop." It is this sloppiness, the result of a DIY methodology, that makes them…
The Spell
Call me crazy, but maybe right at the beginning of the summer isn't the best time to release an album full of dirges. It's like…
Putting the Days to Bed
John Roderick and his Long Winters made that boisterous arrival to your headphones in 2001 with The Worst You Can Do is Harm. The record…
Little By Little…
To paraphrase one famous American: this reviewer went to his computer with the Harvey Danger record he had, not the Harvey Danger album he (initially)…
Heather Duby
It's been a few years since we last heard from Heather Duby. Her last two records, Post to Wire and Come Across the River, firmly…
Panda & Angel
Nothing like gloom to help brighten a Pacific Northwest spring! Not that there's anything wrong with that when it comes from Seattle upstarts Panda &…
Capture/Release
If I had a dime for every band from England that takes equal portions of Gang of Four, the Clash, and Public Image Limited and…
American V: A Hundred Highways
I believe in a lot of odd things: Free Masons, UFOs, the Illuminati, Sasquatch, Mokele-Mbe, Champy, and the viability of a third party in the…
Allalom — We Make Our Own Mistakes, Vol. 1
What makes a good compilation? Unlike mixtapes, compilation albums don't generally have a central theme, and they only offer a taste of each band on…
Bottom of Barrels
One of the silly questions I tend to ask myself when I listen to an album for the first time is "hey, do they sound…