Month: April 2020
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Spectreview: Racoma – This Front Room
Racoma’s debut LP is an exquisitely-produced, luxuriantly-paced record that plays to the band’s strengths.
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Spectreview: X – ALPHABETLAND
X’s first album in almost 35 years finds the iconic LA punk band mostly back to business, in an often thrillingly vibrant fashion.
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Season 2 Episode 5: On Covering Underground Music (feat. Travis Shosa of COUNTERZINE)
COUNTERZINE head Travis Shosa and I talk about the pitfalls of being a music blog in 2020, the downside of Submithub, college radio, and the struggle to win an audience.
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LIGHTNING ROUND (April 17, 2019)
On this week’s LIGHTNING ROUND, tracks by Donormaal, Retirement Party, Cheekface and more!
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Spectreview: Elvis Depressedly – depressedelica
Elvis Depressedly’s depressedelica, despite the dire context, still feels strangely joyous in its confident stylistic shifts.
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Spectreview: The Strokes – The New Abnormal
The Strokes continue the crusade to redefine themselves on their downcast, endearingly awkward sixth album.
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Season 2 Episode 4: On Music Videos (feat. Antonioni)
On this episode of the podcast, local band Antonioni joins me on a wide-ranging discussion about music videos: our favorites, and what they’ll mean in the future.
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Spectreview: Medium Weekend – Crow Program
Medium Weekend plumb the cerebral depths of ecology in their newest project, a visual album that showcases what the experimental duo does best.
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Spectreview: TOPS – I Feel Alive
TOPS' I Feel Alive is insanely catchy, knowingly dispassionate indie pop that hits like a late-spring breeze.