ALBUM REVIEW: SUNSHINE BOYS, “Work and Love”
Though Sunshine Boys have been referred to as indie rock royalty, they prefer to think of themselves in more modest terms: as three musicians with the good fortune to find…
Though Sunshine Boys have been referred to as indie rock royalty, they prefer to think of themselves in more modest terms: as three musicians with the good fortune to find…
Even a lesser Kansas work—and In The Spirit Of Things is an obviously and significantly flawed album—rewards deep and repeated engagement from its listeners.
Lowell Brams has been part of singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens life since Stevens was barely out of toddlerhood. Brams – the titular “Lowell” of Stevens’ excellent 2015 solo LP Carrie &…
The Strokes are feeling the Eighties and I’m here for it. Their first full-length since 2013’s unfortunate but aptly named Comedown Machine, The New Abnormal stands as the first Strokes…
When I reviewed Murder for Girls’ last LP, All The Pretty Stars, for the SWPA-based zine Punksburgh back in 2017, I cited as the group’s forebears and immediate influences Babes…
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Shelby Lynne has released her self-titled album via Thirty Tigers. Critics and fans alike have praised the powerful release which finds the celebrated artist at her most…
Other Music is the eponymously-titled story of the New York City record store which existed between 1996 and 2016. Located on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, right across the…
Man, Gaelynn Lea knows how to wring the sentimentality out of an Electro Harmonix. The Duluth, Minnesota-bred composer/songwriter, who won the NPR Tiny Desk Contest in 2016, enchants listeners with…
If you follow ambient music like the kind composed by Tangerine Dream, then you spend a fair amount of time checking out any good ambient artists for their contributions to…
It looks like candy, but the new Paul Melançon goes far deeper than you'd expect.
Did the boys just do the most punk thing by delivering their least punk album?
Peel Dream Magazine is the moniker Joe Stevens gives his musical creations, with the latest collection titled Agitprop Alterna. Stevens is somewhat a one-man-band, contributing guitars, organ, synth, drones and…