Monograms Silencer Reviewed by: Ziggy Merritt I hold my breath whenever a band tries to invoke the genre of new wave to give some readily definable quality to their sound. Generally I think the term lived and died in the ’80s, but I live to be proved wrong in that regard. Read More

Jadea Kelly Love & Lust Reviewed by: Jane Roser It’s true what they say about heartbreak- that immense pain tends to create the most beautiful art. Canadian singer-songwriter Jadea Kelly fled her native Canada for Nashville after discovering that her boyfriend had been Read More

Tara Jane O’Neil Reviewed by: Max Miller Tara Jane O’Neil isn’t exactly a household name, even in indie rock circles, where the uplifting of obscure artists is undertaken with the seriousness of old dudes at country clubs playing golf. Her old band Rodan is sometimes exalted by Read More

by Jane Roser On my thirteenth birthday, I asked my dad for the Purple Rain record, and as I opened it with excitement, he said, “I don’t know why you would want this.” When I recently spoke to him about that moment, dad admitted that he “did a lot of soul Read More

by Brittney Corridean When you think of times past, there are certain artists who just kind of broke the mold. Some may have left the music sooner than they should have, or just faded out of the limelight like a gust of hot air. However you may think of it, some of these bands Read More

by Geno Thackara It’s been a long time since Frank Zappa asserted that jazz wasn’t dead, a thought which is thankfully still as true as it was then. Music is all about accepting and bringing all kinds of people together, and if there’s one milieu that arguably Read More