Nostalgia is a beautiful, cruel thing. A necessary and unavoidable part of growing older, it is a mischievous child who takes what you once possessed and held dear, and shows it to you as it runs off, laughing. Every once in awhile you catch a glimpse of it, and my song choice this week […]

This album came out about a year ago, so its not new, but I doubt you’ve heard of the Violet Archers. In fact when I tried to buy this album several months ago I was forced to purchase mp3s from an independent record store’s website.
This was a band I discovered through the power of […]

Hello, boys and girls. What it do? The Chemical Brothers released an album in July that is, well, there really isn’t any other word for it: badical. “The Salmon Dance,” on said album, caught my attention because of its overall dynamism, but also because of a strange dialogue in the song between Fatlip (of the […]

Melancholic melodies and a haunting girlish voice are all part and parcel in the music of El Perro del Mar, the one-man Swedish band of Sara Assbring (who is friends with spectacular fellow Swede, Jens Lekman).
Whenever I hear this Swedish bird sing her best song “God Knows”, scenes from David Lynch’s debut film Eraserhead tend […]

Dan Reeder is what I’m here to talk about. I wanted to spring for the lighter of fare to share with you guys and this artist has been catching my ear lately. On my journey for critical opinion - I learned that the amazing singer/songwriter is only a hobbyist and that his full time efforts […]