ohn reminisces about his days of being pretty, and also reveals some latent jealousy about men who can sew. Jenna and Ian Duvall of Sang Sarah talk about the creepy mannequin in their basement. Cinnamon’s EDM career takes a turn for the worse. We also have excellent music: Bronson Wisconsin with Goodbye Ventura The […]
The race to sell out heats up as John thinks about investing in a white leather suit. Sean Bohrman of Burger Records talks about the unexpected virtues of cassette tapes. Cinnamon’s first beat hits the airwaves. And for the last half of the podcast, you will not look up from your shoes. (Hopefully you’re not […]
شبح by Vienna Ditto One half of this band is a hauntingly beautiful singer, and the other half is a commanding electronic music artist. That combination exists all over the place, but never like this. They both have so much skill that neither outshines the other, and the music is both listenable and totally unpredictable. […]
So wrong of us to demand the return of this band, which broke up six years ago and whose members are all happily on to other things. But this album is so great. Deep and superficial, loud and even louder. (And it’s free! Click the link to download it.) Our favorite song: Picasso. (Reviewed on […]
The Morning After by SixToes Cinematic folk rock means not being afraid of simplicity, but not being afraid of complexity either. A haunting bunch of songs, featuring strings, computers, and a balladeer who sounds like he’s from another century. Our favorite song: Nobody Inn.(Reviewed on our #25 podcast, Ugly.)
Ugly by Bronson Wisconsin Sometimes very skilled musicians are totally annoying, but these two brothers seem like they’d be really fun to hang out with. This is country-Americana music that will make you want to move to Wisconsin, where the honest songwriters live. Our favorite song: Goodbye Ventura. (Reviewed on our #25 podcast, Ugly.)
Blue Garden / Kids are Astronauts / Drones by Un.Real The name, which is pronounced in the Spanish, describes the sound of this band pretty well. We think this music is transportive. Our favorite song: Blue Garden. (Reviewed on our #24 podcast, Waves of Beautiful Gorgeousness.)
How a brand-new band could sound so polished is a mystery that maybe you have to be from Scotland to understand. Really rhythmic, really big, really interesting songs, some of which are sort of stoner rock and some of which are shoegaze-ish. Our favorite song: The Bold Yin. (Reviewed on our #24 podcast, Waves of […]
Quitting Time by Half StackA large, cute group of people who have all played music for a long time put it together here in a genre-defying bunch of Real Good Tunes. Our favorite song: Dually. (Reviewed on our #24 podcast, Waves of Beautiful Gorgeousness.)