Review: Noah23 – Fry Cook On Venus (2011)
Noah23 has been called a “Poetical prophet” and for good reason. This Guelph, Ontario native released his fourth album this year with Fake Four Inc. Noah23 comes from a “hippie family”, his latest album, Fry Cook On Venus keeps his evoking psychedelic feel accompanie
Review: Kitsuné Maison Compilation 11 (2011)
Six years after the first Kitsuné Maison Compilation the Paris based fashion and electronic music label have reached their 11th instalment of the indie inspired club music collection… or is that club inspired indie music? This is a question which has followed the label around the past decade. The
Review: Love Inks – E.S.P. (2011)
Something is happening. You can never put your finger on it, nor that it is occurring until years later. It starts unknowingly when a friend or two disappears from your city. You hear word of where they end up, and it’s a conundrum. “Why?” is the most response. Then as seasons approach a
CONCERT REVIEW: FOALS AT THE 9:30 CLUB (WASHINGTON, D.C.)
Foals (Oxford, England, UK), Freelance Whales (Queens, New York) and The Naked and Famous(New Zealand)May 6th, 20119:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Only in Washingtonwould the president’s cardboard twin make an appearance at a rock concert. The grinning 2-D commander-in-chief
Review: Paper Thick Walls – A Thousand Novels (2011)
There’s something nostalgic about Paper Thick Walls’ debut album, A Thousand Novels, but not in the sense that they’ve borrowed from their musical predecessors, as many bands do. Rather, in the Chicago-based group’s ability to capture reminiscence in song. They write songs tha
REVIEW: THE DØ – BOTH WAYS OPEN JAWS (2011)
A good musician once told me he was tiring of hearing new bands try too hard to play something new-sounding and not hard enough to play something that sounded like music. Though that may be a narrow and conservative opinion, I have found this claim often true and I’m glad to say it isn’t the [&h
REVIEW: TELEPATHIQUE – ALL YOUR LOVERS EP (2011)
A few months back in Logan Square, everyone had started to trickle out of Logan Square Auditorium to catch cabs, the L and buses back home. I was going to join some friends, but instead started talking with the drummer. Congratulations turned into talk about, unexpectedly, another band. Unexpected b
REVIEW: GDP – USELESS EATERS (2011)
GDP has put forth his strongest effort yet with Useless Eaters. What makes this album stand above previous work from the West Orange, NJ rapper, born _____, is a seeming realization: fast and loud better complements his dark and angry lyrics. GDP is at his best when he is rapping over beat
Review: Chris Bathgate – Salt Year (2011)
I realized upon first listen that Salt Year, the latest release from Michigan’s revered Chris Bathgate, was a record that would affect my life in a very real way. I wasn’t sure why exactly but as I first listened to the album, months ago, I intrinsically knew that Salt Year w