July 31, 2015

by Shannon Fox The 90-degree weather and the muggy July heat didn’t seem to stop fans from flooding into the Electric Factory this past Wednesday night when WXPN presented Jason Isbell and Blake Mills. Mills even went on to joke with the crowd saying, “At least it’s not hot in Read More

by Mandy McGee Matt Mondanile is a musician from New Jersey who plays guitar in Real Estate and has a solo project called Ducktails. Some people don’t like genre labels or know how to label music; Mondanile describes Ducktails as ecstatic dream music. His newest LP Read More

by Matt Kelchner 2015 marks the 15th year anniversary of the release of The Appleseed Cast’s seminal album, Mare Vitalis. To celebrate, the band teamed up with Graveface Records for a reissue release back in late June. Along with the repressing came a headlining tour in support Read More

Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy Reviewed by: Lauren Rosier     The Most Lamentable Tragedy is Titus Andronicus’ Merge Records debut and an epic one at that. The two-disc, 93 minute rock opera, is about a man who runs into a doppelganger whose behavior is Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel Science from an Easy Chair Reviewed by: Max Miller Science from an Easy Chair is the fifth full-length by Floridian folk-rockers Have Gun, Will Travel. It’s named for a book on then-contemporary science that made for common reading material for British Read More

Malpas Rain, River, Sea Reviewed by: Fareeha Naim     Rain, River, Sea is the result of an experiment gone right. The debut album of the UK duo comprised of songwriter Ali M. Forbes and producer Andy Savours, this project began with a few folk songs, electronic and Read More