June 24, 2014

Carsie Blanton Not Old, Not New Reviewed by: Lara Supan   Get ready to fall in love with jazz again (if you ever fell out of it in the first place). Carsie Blanton delivers a playful album of iconic honkey-tonk jazz tunes that will have you leaning back in your easy chair in Read More

How to Dress Well “What Is This Heart?” Reviewed by: Ari Roth   In many ways, “What Is This Heart?“ feels inevitable, the logical culmination of Tom Krell’s avant-pop project. The last four years have seen him slowly and methodically stripping back the Read More

Peter Matthew Bauer Liberation! Reviewed by: Lara Supan   Liberation! is best experienced with the liner notes read in tandem with listening to the songs, because this is an album that screams for an explanation. In quite an intriguing way, the disjunct styles and complex Read More

Derek Evry Down to the Wire Reviewed By: Lara Supan   Down to the Wire covers more rock genres in six songs than most people do in a lifetime. Derek Evry’s new EP has straight rock, hard rock, soft rock, surf rock, and pop rock, just to name a few. It starts out with Read More

Strand of Oaks Heal Reviewed by: Brian Roser   It’s amazing the effect that pain can have on art. Would Shakespeare’s Hamlet have been as masterful if he had not lost his son, Hamnet a few years before? Could Dylan Thomas have written his masterpiece “Do Not Go Gentle Into Read More

Emmy Wildwood Mean Love Reviewed by: Rebecca Robinson   Warning: Do not listen to this album for the first time with headphones. Many people prefer the total immersion and access to the subtle nuances of the music that headphones provide, but this album has a few sudden Read More