Category: Features

Listen: Billy Pilgrim is unstuck in time... The Great Wilderness self-describes as “dream rock.” But the dreams they spin are populated by shrieking men, bloodied and battered men, howling wolves, rebels, storms, crashing trains, twisting bones and tearing flesh, and...

Wikipedia tells us that there are 6,477,798 songs on Bandcamp. If we conservatively estimate that each song is 3 minutes in length, then listening to the entire catalog would require 37 years. Five of those songs, about 21 minutes worth, belong to Donald and Jack. My...

There’s a difference between daydreamers and people chasing dreams... Chasing down a vision isn’t for the faint of heart. – Mike Herz, in “Doin’ Alright” and “Faint of Heart” I asked Mike Herz, “If you could sing a duet with any living singer, who would you choose?”...

Are you having a bad day? Are you tired? Depressed? Can you feel the zombie virus creeping inexorably up your extremities to bore into your spinal column and transform you into a brain-eating sociopath that will never be invited out for a beer? Or are you just bummed...

Feral Conservatives deliver powerful, well-crafted songs ... that happen to feature the mandolin. Rashie Rosenfarb (vocals, mandolin, bass, piano) and Matt Francis (drums, percussion, guitar, organ) challenge you to accept the reality of their music. If a female...

Raina Rose wants to tell you something. She wants you to hear it, feel it, believe it. The listener is addressed as a person, not as a concept. So when she sings "Woman's made to cry, man is made to sin," it is difficult not to take it personally. When I heard it, I...

What, Really? is several kilometers away from being a household name. But they are working toward that goal, one fan at a time. Their four-song EP, with the easy-to-remember name s​/​t promo 2013, is available on Bandcamp. Name your price, anything from a million...

Solipsism: a theory that your own existence is the only thing that is real or that can be known. In the landlocked nation of Austin, Marc Brenton yearns for the sea. But he is in no hurry to get there. Surrounded by the Edwards Limestone, the calcified remnants of an...

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. - Chekhov Colornoise describes its music as “experimental noise rock.” But Polychronic, their second LP, is not a random collection of weird sounds. The tracks are well-constructed,...

Legend tells us that, eons ago in the Age of Sepia, a journeyman musician named Delta Will walked out onto a Mississippi crossroads at midnight and flagged down a passing spaceship. In exchange for his soul, the aliens granted Delta Will the ability to play the blues...