Album Of The Week: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down’s A Man Alive
There’s a certain mellow coolness to Thao Nguyen’s music. It has a habit of taking over your senses and giving you numerous sensations. She’s the frontwoman and guitarist for the […]
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Rob’s Album Of The Week: The Slackers
Ska is a genre that has been in a bit of a crossroads over the past few years. It’s kind of in the same position punk rock was in the […]
Rob’s Album Of The Week: Radiation City’s Synesthetica
Portland, Oregon, act Radiation City convey this synthy style of dream-pop that takes over your senses. Reminiscent of Portishead and Roxy Music, the band takes bits and pieces of trip-hop […]
CD Review: Jimmy Adler’s Grease Alley
By day, Pittsburgh’s James Addlespurger is a mild-mannered educator at a high school for the creative and performing arts. Armed with chalk and curriculum, he molds impressionable young minds into […]
David Bowie’s Blackstar – A Weird Star is Born
I found out about Bowie’s death just a few hours after turning this review. In retrospect, Blackstar is the kind of swan song only an unpredictable innovator like him could’ve […]
The White Panda at Lupo’s
On Wednesday, December 30, Cali-based mashup duo The White Panda (TWP) graced the stage at Lupo’s for the fifth time, and they did not disappoint. When I caught up with […]
Album Of The Week: Dirty Streets’ White Horse
Everyone wants to talk about what’s happening in Nashville. But what about that other city in Tennessee? What about Memphis? With a long history of blues and soul music, The […]
CD Review: Televisionaries — Self-Titled
Compared to many of my fellow music writers who toil daily in the literary trenches, I’m still a relative newbie, having only been at this just shy of a decade. […]
Rob’s Album Of The Week: Fuzz’s II
What does a musician have to do to be considered prolific in 2015? Is it doing a never-ending amount of session work in the studio? Putting out a countless number […]
Album Of The Week: Jose Oyola & The Astronauts’ Hologram
New Haven, Connecticut, musician Jose Oyola brings a wonderful combination of innovation and imagination to his songs. With English and Spanish lyrics to go with a unique style of indie-pop, […]