by Zach Fraley The difficulties felt in putting yourself out there to someone are felt more harshly by some than by others. Revealing your true self can make you feel vulnerable, exposed, and open to criticism. These feelings kept Leslie Bear of Long Beard from sharing her music Read More

Fuzz II Reviewed by: Max Miller     Garage rock mastermind Ty Segall first began showing a penchant for stoner rock in earnest on 2012’s Slaughterhouse. The album, credited to the Ty Segall Band (featuring Charles Moothart on guitar), included the cut “Wave Goodbye,” Read More

Pure Bathing Culture Pray For Rain Reviewed by: Max Miller The guitars on Pure Bathing Culture’s sophomore release, Pray For Rain, do all the things guitars in positive reviews of indie-pop records are expected to do. They shimmer. They twinkle. They occasionally buzzsaw. The Read More

The Chapin Sisters Today’s Not Yesterday Reviewed by: Jane Roser If they can make it there, they can make it anywhere. New York sure has been good to The Chapin Sisters. Their first album of original material in five years, Today’s Not Yesterday, is a sweet Read More

Zeke Duhon Self-Titled Reviewed by: Brianna Redding Zeke Duhon seems like the kind of guy you’d see at a college bonfire, sitting on a log singing and playing guitar for a handful of starry-eyed freshman girls.  With the October 23rd release of his self-titled debut EP, you’re Read More

The Jag Pondermental Wonderment in Hypocricity Reviewed by: Ziggy Merritt I didn’t have to stare at the title to The Jag’s latest release for too long before worrying myself whether or not I was about to get into something bloated and pretentious. Pondermental Wonderment in Read More