Category Archives: Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz

Post Rock Road Trip: Day Three

Today our post-rock road trip acts like a European backpacker, making its pit stops in Scotland, the U.K. and Greece, staying in hostels and taking in new music from The Gothenburg Address, Those Amongst Us Are Wolves and Sleepstream.  We’ve been

Post Rock Road Trip: Day Three

Today our post-rock road trip acts like a European backpacker, making its pit stops in Scotland, the U.K. and Greece, staying in hostels and taking in new music from The Gothenburg Address, Those Amongst Us Are Wolves and Sleepstream.  We’ve been

Post-Rock Road Trip: Day Two

On the second day of our road trip, we turn north to Canada, the home of many post-rock originators.  Canada’s new breed includes An Ant and An Atom, North Atlantic Drift, Northumbria and Music for Money, all of whom skirt on the edges

Post-Rock Road Trip: Day Two

On the second day of our road trip, we turn north to Canada, the home of many post-rock originators.  Canada’s new breed includes An Ant and An Atom, North Atlantic Drift, Northumbria and Music for Money, all of whom skirt on the edges

Post-Rock Road Trip: Day One

We’re looking for the world’s best instrumental post-rock.  This week, we’ll be traveling around the planet and covering a few releases daily, starting in the U.S. with Unconditional Arms and Wander from the west and Tides of Man, Cavallo and Ghosts of Sailors at Sea from the east.

Post-Rock Road Trip: Day One

We’re looking for the world’s best instrumental post-rock.  This week, we’ll be traveling around the planet and covering a few releases daily, starting in the U.S. with Unconditional Arms and Wander from the west and Tides of Man, Cavallo and Ghosts of Sailors at Sea from the east.

Christoph Bruhn ~ Weekends on the Frontier

Fingerstyle guitarist Christoph Bruhn lights up the Twin Ports with his effortless touch and soulful playing. Bruhn has an open tone that’s supple on the surface, but he plays in a way that reflects deeper waters. Bruhn has made the transition from electric

Christoph Bruhn ~ Weekends on the Frontier

Fingerstyle guitarist Christoph Bruhn lights up the Twin Ports with his effortless touch and soulful playing. Bruhn has an open tone that’s supple on the surface, but he plays in a way that reflects deeper waters. Bruhn has made the transition from electric

Sky Lantern Records

Sky Lantern Records has just launched a tape series with a flourish, as if setting lanterns free in the sky.  A quartet of new cassettes by Ø+yn y Montibus Communitas, Centralstödet, Sheldon Siegel and Kikagaku Moyu come wrapped in lovely line cut

Sky Lantern Records

Sky Lantern Records has just launched a tape series with a flourish, as if setting lanterns free in the sky.  A quartet of new cassettes by Ø+yn y Montibus Communitas, Centralstödet, Sheldon Siegel and Kikagaku Moyu come wrapped in lovely line cut

Man Forever (with So Percussion) ~ Ryonen

The prospect of an a nearly all-drum album might not immediately get a lot of eager takers. Drum solos occupy an odd place on the respectability spectrum of music. In jazz, they’re an esteemed part of the musical tradition. In

Man Forever (with So Percussion) ~ Ryonen

The prospect of an a nearly all-drum album might not immediately get a lot of eager takers. Drum solos occupy an odd place on the respectability spectrum of music. In jazz, they’re an esteemed part of the musical tradition. In

Gavin Miller ~ Somn

  Here’s a recently discovered aspect to record reviewing that didn’t trouble our forbears. If, back in the day, a writer penned a piece that didn’t chime exactly with the artist’s own opinion, one of the accusations would be that

Gavin Miller ~ Somn

  Here’s a recently discovered aspect to record reviewing that didn’t trouble our forbears. If, back in the day, a writer penned a piece that didn’t chime exactly with the artist’s own opinion, one of the accusations would be that

Praise The Road ~ Mariano Rodriguez

Dreams bend and then give way to reality on the fretboard of a guitar. The exhaustive array of chord voicings, scales and colour splashed arpeggios can be overwhelming, so it’s no wonder the fretboard is frequently likened to that of

Praise The Road ~ Mariano Rodriguez

Dreams bend and then give way to reality on the fretboard of a guitar. The exhaustive array of chord voicings, scales and colour splashed arpeggios can be overwhelming, so it’s no wonder the fretboard is frequently likened to that of