Collapsing Opposites, Inside Chance
Ryan McCormick is definitely seeking out the kids with bicycles and haircuts on his new album, Inside Chance. Having expanded […]
Karyn Bonham
The Acorn, Tin Fist
When I suffered from depression, I alternated days lying on the floor in a pile of crumpled paper with days […]
Donovan Woods, The Hold Up
Acoustic guitar crimes abound these days, and Mr. Woods determinedly places himself amongst the guilty with The Hold Up. The […]
The Vores, Moment of Uncertainty
Wow, this CD came in a really cool silver package with neat graphics of scabrous crows and power lines and […]
Mike Evin, Let’s Slow It Down
If you’re happily single at the moment, you should avoid listening to Mike Evin’s new release. His romantic musings on […]
Elbow Beach Surf Club, Self-titled
Elbow Beach Surf Club’s debut is all sharp angles and attitude, shredding nerves and pushing bodies to the brink with […]
Percy Farm, The End’s in the Beginning
This is a cheerfully ramshackle album, tumbling down and picking itself up again with each new kick at the musical […]
The United Steel Workers of Montreal, Kerosene & Coal
My childhood, quite literally, stunk. The town dump was located approximately two miles from my home and they burned garbage […]
Signe Miranda
At once sweetly compelling and creepily obsessive, the smartly-observed love songs on Signe Miranda’s solo debut rip apart the contradictory […]
The Lady Racers, Here and Now
Regret, recrimination, retribution–the three R’s of relationships, it would seem, if you are a Lady Racer. This thoughtful trio of […]
Amos the Transparent
The Transparent are comparing themselves into redundancy. This is music best enjoyed seven or eight years ago when the soft […]