ACL 2012: The Year’s Best Album Covers

These are times of widespread disconnect, and music is one of the most genuine ways for a person all alone to feel understood. We’re seeing DIY backlashes against this loss of connection everywhere (Just look into the boom on homesteading

Witxes ~ Sorcery/Geography

The hyper-active brushwork, the busily plucked bass strings, the wailing of a saxophone off to one side… the thick and heady/heavy atmosphere created on the opening track suggests that Witxes are another band in thrall to what’s rapidly becoming a