Alabama feels raw and real, because the song content speaks on human rights issues that Alabama has her boot heels on. Lo Wolf is an Asheville singer and songwriter, and advocate. This is how you make protest art pretty folks. “Alabama sheets cotton starched and burnin’ white, my to do list was gettin’ done last […]
Nostalgic feelings of longing, the lyrics of second-guessing, emotional pining, someone always being on my mind, and especially the line Seventeen Didn’t Mean A Thing To Me has me feeling like I’m in high school worrying about the microscopic things that feel big at the time. This is the perfect garage rock song for the […]
This is one of my favorite bands, and they have been for several years. These are pure rock n’ rollers, Paint Fumes has everything cool in spades. The band just returned home from an insane European Tour that had them narrowly escaping death, having all their gear stolen, and nearly not being allowed to return […]
Partition would have played arenas if they existed in 1992. The bass starts off on its own, followed by crisp drums, clean guitar, and dirty lyrics. All the best things of the 90’s are executed perfectly here…the soft/hard dynamics, the doubled vocals like Cobain learned from Lennon, and a true grittiness. Partition is a clever […]
In aggressive fashion, Cemetery Date holds and hits in all the right places. I think the song is in Spanish, and the poetic flow and rhyme is obvious, transcending language barriers even. The vocals are doubled and raw, a perfect contrast to the super-tight crisp instrumentation of the song. The rhythm section is tight, with […]
Fantasies abound in the dreamlike trance of synth heavy and soothing song Fantasy Movie by Lala Lala. Female/Male octave singing pulls you deep into a loving dream, and wraps you in the low fidelity warmth of an optimistic future. Tangibility of fantasy through poetic wordplay grabs the heart strings, and the heartbeat pounding of the […]
Sometimes a song is just layered right, with all the space and shining chords in the right places over deliberate drums and powerful bass. It starts in a building of layers, a coming of power, and the void represented in methodical instrumentation and short clever silences between. The story would unfold whether the lyrics existed […]
Mapping territories that exist between Thee Oh Sees and Blinded Me With Science synth/guitar riffing, X-Ray Glasses: On is hooking the whole way through. Its apparent that the bass guitarist is driving this beast along at speed. The distorted vocal describes visual scratches, night vision (x-ray vision too I suppose), with monotone chill that matches […]
Staff Writer: Drew Burgess An on the road song, a poem about losing your grip, through romantic longings in harmony, the metaphorical personification of wysteria through romantic outings and hand-holding, I come to the conclusion that Nordistra Freeze is in love, though what with, I have no idea. Wysteria has a similar vibe to 1960’s […]