Chris Stamey & the Fellow Travelers
A Brand-New Shade of Blue (Omnivore). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
A Brand-New Shade of Blue (Omnivore). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Game Day (Omnivore). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Don’t Mention the War/Cinderella Style (Hawthorne Curve Records). Review by James Mann.
Drifted In The Beginning & Beyond (Omnivore Recordings). Review by James Mann.
Falling off the Sky (Bar/None). Review by Sean Slone.
Songs for Other People (Holidays for Quince). Review by James Mann.
Mavericks (Collector’s Choice Music). Review by Jeff Montgomery.
Travels in the South (Yep Roc). Review by Sean Slone.
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Mitch Easter, Let’s Active, the dBs, Rob Levy, interview
They don’t come more seminal than Mitch Easter, who has influenced music from both sides of the mixing board, with his band Let’s Active and as the producer for acts like REM, Pavement and Marshall Crenshaw. Rob Levy grabs a few moments with the busy man.
Creatures (spinART). Review by Henry “Hank” McCoy.
A Man Under the Influence (Bloodshot). Review by James Mann.
Twenty-three years after his Sonic Recipe for Love, Steve Stav writes a playlist for the brokenhearted victims of another corporate holiday: the first Valentine’s Day of the second Trump era.
Phil Bailey reviews Rampo Noir, a four part, surreal horror anthology film based on the works of Japan’s horror legend, Edogawa Rampo.
In this latest installment of his popular weekly series, Christopher Long finds himself dumpster diving at a groovy music joint in Oklahoma City, where he scores a bagful of treasure for UNDER $20 — including a well-cared-for $3 vinyl copy of Life for the Taking, the platinum-selling 1978 sophomore set from Eddie Money.
Ink 19’s Liz Weiss spends an intimate evening with Gregory Alan Isakov.
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar). Review by Peter Lindblad.
This week, Christopher Long goes “gaga” over discovering an ’80s treasure: an OG vinyl copy of Spring Session M, the timeless 1982 classic from Missing Persons — for just six bucks!
Both bold experiment and colossal failure in the 1960s, Esperanto language art house horror film Incubus returns with pre-_Star Trek_ William Shatner to claim a perhaps more serious audience.
You Can’t Tell Me I’m Not What I Used To Be (North & Left Records). Review by Randy Radic.