Category: Features

There’s nothing wrong with a good love song.  As my Nana used to say, “Reverbo, si juegas esa basura Kennedys Muerta una vez más voy a poner mi cabeza en el horno y encender el gas lo juro por Dios!”  Then she would prance around the kitchen holding a plate of arroz...

Dog Bite, led by Atlanta-based musician Phil Jones, occupies an expanse of lo-fi dream pop bandwidth beyond the orbits of Minks and Memoryhouse and closer to the sun than Ariel Pink. Many of Dog Bite’s songs feature a simple, repetitive guitar line in the foreground...

Amalie Bruun stays busy. In addition to fronting Ex Cops with Brian Harding, she models, gets profiled in fashion magazines, acts in commercials directed by Martin Scorsese, AND maintains a solo career as a singer-songwriter.  It's no wonder she's so thin. The poor...

Alex Bleeker gives us a pair of bipolar breakup songs. Both feature melodies and arrangements that are borderline feel-good folkie. But the words reveal a person who needs to increase his Seroquel dosage. In "These Days" (2010) we see a man who has dumped his...

In case you were wondering, there is still great music being made in Athens, Georgia. If your iPod is full it might be time to delete Tres Hombres and make room for something new, fresh, and very good. Like many of today's new bands, New Madrid does not fit neatly...

The pairing of British blues-rocker Alvin Lee with American Christian-rocker Mylon LeFevre was one of music's odder combinations. Not as weird as Gregg Allman and Cher, but pretty far out there. But the collaboration produced a memorable album, On the Road to Freedom,...