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Back in September, I finally attended one of David Bazan’s living room shows, after years […]
In the trend of recent conversation pieces, Blake (B.I.C.) and I bring you a discussion […]
“Treat Her Better”, and “Go Easy”: the voice of pleading fights down that of advice in Demarco’s latest release.
Mac Demarco’s Salad Days has been, strangely enough, a joy to listen to. If I were a music critic, I’d try and fail to describe the playful self-awareness, the almost-total coincidence between irony and sincerity, etc. I can’t describe musical form too precisely, but suffice it to say, it’s tailored extremely well to the album’s content. And the content is stunning – or would be, if it didn’t have so many layers of irony and alienation covering it over.
In this case, that’s…
“So maybe [anxiety]’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My […]
This comes to us from Joey Shook. For a band that has been tirelessly […]
This review comes courtesy of our friend Brooks Tate. I was late to the Arcade […]
Derek Webb’s first solo album, She Must and Shall Go Free, has long been one […]
After Kanye West and Jay Z’s 2011 collaboration Watch the Throne, I was very excited […]
Vampire Weekend has often been accused of making rather frivolous music that appeals mainly to […]
French rock band Phoenix cemented their place in the indie scene in 2009 with the […]
On his newest album, The Beast in Its Tracks, Josh Ritter grapples with his recent […]
I wake up excited every Tuesday, even if there are no albums I am particularly […]