Record Highlight — Overseas

Overseas is David Bazan, Will Johnson, Matt Kadane, and Bubba Kadane.  The self-titled debut album is a dreamy waltz of foreboding and reconciliation, a coin flipping head over tails in spotlight slow motion, landing briefly […]

Record Highlight — Big Blood

Radio Valkyrie 1905-1917 is only the second proper full-length LP by this Portland Maine-based duo, although there are vast arrays of CDRS and split releases littering their wake. After spending time with both the cosmically-shifting Cerberus […]

Record Highlight – Classixx

Classixx have been intent on their debut Hanging Gardens, whittling the LP down from hundreds of sessions to a svelte 12 songs. At once beaming, breezy and wistful, Hanging Gardens features a variety of coastal […]

Record Highlight — Stone Titan

Stone Titan‘s Scratch N’ Sniff LP is launching soon via Safety Meeting Records!  But – if you can hit up the band’s tour stops, you can grab a copy early: 5/31 Lima, OH @ The Leathershop 6/1 […]

The Torches were cobbled together by Stephen Guidry in the late winter of 2009 as his other band, The Cassettes retreated into hibernation. Hoping to find a repository and hopefully fertile crescent for the music […]

Record Highlight — D-Town Brass

D-Town Brass’s name is only an indication of what you might expect to hear from this savory jazz outfit: The 14-piece ensemble indeed spouts a great deal of brass, along with drums, marimba, bass, keys […]

Record Highlight — Jesse Harris

Borne Away, the new 14-song “solo acoustic” album from Jesse Harris, was never meant to be an album at all. Why solo-acoustic in quotations? Because added to the basic live tracks of Harris with his guitar […]