Hailing from Chicago’s lower west side, Yourself And The Air combine Midwest atmospherics with the sweeping sprawl of a skyward city built on electricity and steel. Take flight over Lake Michigan and this is your […]
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Record Highlight — HBS
Pre-Order up now! All vocals and instruments were played by H.B. Shepherd unless otherwise noted. Recorded in Georgetown (DeepOwl) at The Mix and Coldwater Studios in Seattle, Washington. Produced by Dave French and H.B. Shepherd. Co-produced by Chad […]
Record Highlights — Magnolia Mountain and Mark Utley Solo
Two new albums come into the world at The Southgate House Revival on Saturday, July 27: Magnolia Mountain’s Beloved and Mark Utley’s Four Chords and a Lie (recorded, in part, with Bulletville). MM be joined that night by the high-energy, female-fronted powerhouse bands The […]
Record Highlight — Chixdiggit!
Double Diggits! is the concurrent reissue of From Scene To Shining Scene and Born On The First of July – both available everywhere on July 23 (with special limited edition color editions available directly from Fat Wreck Chords). […]
Record Highlight — Robert Rolfe Feddersen
Robert Rolfe Feddersen just finished recording a new album with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio Mtudios in Chicago, IL. The album, American Loser, was recorded onto 2″ tape and mixed down on 1/2″ tape. The 10-song […]
Record Highlight — Mounds
MOUNDS is Tom Hohmann’s post-USAISAMONSTER narrative synth prog duo with Alfred Turner. They write songs about early native culture, nature and beyond! This LP comes with an insert and a beautiful 4 color silk screened jacket, […]
Record Highlight — Secret Colours
Secret Colours revel in being the bastard seed of the ’60s psychedelia and ’90s Britpop bloodlines. Since their eponymous debut in 2010, the band moved swiftly from neophyte in the Chicago psychedelic-newgaze scene to crusader […]
Record Highlight — Meridian
Meridian is the brainchild of Max Stern, best known as the vocalist/guitarist for rising Cleveland punk band Signals Midwest. Many of the songs comprising Meridian’s full-length debut, Aging Truths, date back as early as 2007, when […]
Record Highlight — Teenage Guitar
Completing our tri-fecta of Ohio record featurs this week (see prior posts for Kim Deal and Robert Pollard) is Teenage Guitar‘s Force Fields At Home. For the most discerning aficionados of Robert Pollard and Guided […]
Record Highlight — Robert Pollard
Robert Pollard‘s new album – Honey Locust Honky Tonk is a compact wonder and so varied, tuneful, graceful, magnificent and ebullient that one will be forgiven for thinking that Robert Pollard has saved his best […]