At the time of beginning this blog, it is Tuesday, May 26th in the year 2026. “Bitknot” has just released (at 12 a.m.) on all streaming services, and officially released to Bandcamp around 10 a.m....
Released in March of this year, “Shy at First” by Cootie Catcher is a nostalgic electronic twist on the indie pop formula. This delightful venture into indietronica is overflowing with earnestness....
On May 13th, 2025, The Crane Wives played at The Ritz, Raleigh, as part of their "Beyond, Beyond, Beyond" tour. The tour is named for the band's latest album, which was released in September of last year....
“Hide In Plain Sight,” off of Jim James' 2016 album "Eternally Even," is a spiritual pondering.
For those who are unfamiliar, Jim James is one of the members of the rock band My Morning Jacket,...
Another Hopscotch has come and gone with the fourteenth festival in the books.
And good golly, was it a learning experience.
I saw some spectacular acts and I also, also bore witness to some...
Parannoul is an artist that needs no introduction. Over the past three years, he has made a name for himself in the growing indie scene.
He has helped bring Korean shoegaze to the West, with heights...
If any album can convince you to get a belly button piercing, it's going to be this one.
Most of us know Cree Summer as the raspy-voiced woman behind our childhood cartoons as "Numbah Five" from "Codename:...
I can’t remember my first introduction to Vampire Weekend, but I can remember how I felt listening to “M79,” at maybe nine or ten years old and feeling absolutely starstruck. From then on, the music...
Relationships are often marked by the music shared with people. There are songs I can’t listen to without remembering certain points in time, points in relationships, or points in states of mind, whether...
This “review” of Yo La Tengo’s “This Stupid World” is a companion piece to a “review” of MooM’s “Plague Infested Dump of the Future”. I explained some of my reasoning for talking about...
I'm sure it was a pleasant surprise for many Duster fans waking up this past Friday morning to a new album on streaming services. "Remote Echoes" was more or less an unexpected release as the band made...
Andrew Hozier-Byrne, better known as Hozier, first captivated the world in 2013 with the international success of his debut track, "Take Me to Church" - a powerful, mid-tempo soul song that addresses...
