REVIEW: INTERPOL – EL PINTOR (2014)
“All the Rage Back Home” the lead single off of Interpol’s fifth album, El Pintor, recalls an excitement, a fevered energy that hasn’t been notably prominent in the band’s most recent releases, especially the epic and atmospheric previous effort, 2010’s self-tilted Interpo
REVIEW: DOUBLE EWES – DOUBLE EWES (2014)
Double Ewes seem to be the stalwarts of the yearly Rock County Folk Symposium. The event has occurred for the past four years at the band’s front man Whilden Hughes’ family estate in Janesville. This year it has been moved to been to Camp Rotamer (still in Rock County), which features bathrooms
REVIEW: THE DELPHINES – HUSH (2014)
Most people, or at least most drummers, are struck by the Delphines’ refashioning of the Victor DeLorenzo type minimalist drum kit. While some other bands (namely Animal Collective) have used a similar set-up, the style does seem to have a genuine Milwaukee suggestion. The band’s new release,&nb
REVIEW: SHARON VAN ETTEN – ARE WE THERE (2014)
The sad-eyed, acoustic guitar-playing singer-songwriter with painstaking songs about love, hurt, the expectations and the disappointments: it’s nothing new to music, it’s been done time and time again, and it’s not going away anytime soon. Sharon Van Etten has quickly become a stando
REVIEW: CON SOLO – THE CRIMSON FUTURE: PART ONE (2014)
Con Solo is an artist featured with the Catch Wreck music collective. The unit is comprised of DJ *hitmayng and CRASHprez, both artists are well connected to the Milwaukee and Madison hip-hop community. Last year at UW-Madison’s Revelry Festival, CRASHprez opened for Chance the Rapper. This y
REVIEW: THE JEZABELS – THE BRINK (2014)
The Jezabels’ second full-length release, The Brink, is an invigorating shake-up: a welcoming jolt to whatever tiring routine, rut, feeling or season that has found its way of bleakly overstaying. With that said, there are few components to The Jezabels music that are glaringly happy, traditi
REVIEW: FAUVE ≠ – VIEUX FRÈRES – PARTIE 1 (2014)
Early February, FAUVE ≠ sold out the 1,500 capacity venue Le Bataclan for a week-long stint of concerts. Vieux Frères – Partie 1 was just hitting shelves, soon to fly off and drive them up the charts. The collective bubbled in 2013 with a small burst here, sma
REVIEW: MIKE KROL – TRUST FUND (2013)
Mike Krol is a Los Angeles-based art designer by trade. He has contributed his talents to releases from Madison bands Sleeping in the Aviary and Icarus Himself. His work with these bands has had its rewards: the drummer for Sleeping in the Aviary, Michael Sienkowski, plays for him. His own releases
REVIEW: THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM – B-SIDES (2014)
The Gaslight Anthem’s newest release, B-Sides is a collection of 11 tracks recorded between 2008 and 2011 including: the studio track ‘She Loves You,’ and rare acoustic takes on some of the bands’ biggest songs as well as an inspired version of The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tumbling Dic