As noted in the unboxing and subsequent blog post of my 1967 pressing of The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators, it’s hard to truly come up with something new about an album that’s not just 50 years old, but was also groundbreaking in the sense that it is deemed an influence for countless…
Every so often, I’ll hear a song and it’ll inspire me to create a new Spotify playlist. Seems like it hasn’t happened all too much over the past six to eight months, but that’s how it goes. I’ll go stretches with nothing, then one new song will hit me and spark the fire of inspiration….
I originally stumbled across Acid House Kings in about 2005 after joining the KZUU staff during grad school. At the time, they had just released Sing Along with the Acid House Kings, their 4th studio album. The station had their previous two, back to the band’s sophomore release Advantage Acid House Kings from 1997. That…
Mercy is The Men’s eighth album. Mercy is their third consecutive album with same lineup. Sets it apart; not since New Moon have we seen the band create something so powerful. A Look Back Making music since 2010 when they released Immaculada, but they didn’t come into my sphere until about 2012 or 2013 with…
Post the grunge era, music out of the PNW pivoted to raw, gritty indie rock. Bands like Modest Mouse and Built to Spill were making waves, if only locally or regionally–it would be a while before both would jump to major labels, or at least expand their reach on them. Enter 764-HERO and their third…
Credit where credit’s due. After years of avoiding Arab Strap, my friend Laura finally convinced me to give them a deeper listen. Quickly, I snapped up Monday at the Hut & Pig and a handful of singles. Since then they’ve become more of a mainstay in my rotation. Then, in 2021, they released As Days…
’68 is Josh Scogin (of The Chariot and Norma Jean) with accompanying percussion by Michael McClellan. The pair, under Scogin’s creative mind, has given us three albums over the past decade, the last of which (Give One Take One, the first without McClellan) came out in 2021. But we’re not here to talk about that. Today,…
Two years after Khruangbin and Leon Bridges joined forces to release a four-song EP titled Texas Sun, the two distinctly different artists are back in 2022 with the complimentary EP Texas Moon. Released on Dead Oceans like its predecessor, the new release comes with a few limited pressings (including a label exclusive and an indie…
I just covered the new album by Spoon the other day, and like that band Low has been around since 1993. It’s shocking to think that was 30 years ago, but here we are. In 2021, Low gave us their 13th studio album, Hey What, which led to a Grammy Nomination for Best Engineered Album….
By this point, I’ve been a fan of Spoon for a solid two decades at least. The band itself has been around nearly three, having originally formed in 1993. Their new album, Lucifer on the Sofa is their tenth and, in my opinion, most cohesively well-put-together album yet! Before we jump into a deeper dive…
