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It was little over a month ago when Tomas Kalnoky, lead singer of Streetlight Manifesto, informed fans directly about the delay of The Hands That Thieve, the group’s forthcoming record in conjunction with Toh Kay’s (Kalnoky’s solo moniker) The Hand That Thieves. With humility in tow, Kalnoky apologized to fans and took complete accountability [...]
Quiet Company are a wondrous, hardworking band from Austin, Texas who pack deep personal truths into magnificent arrangements with unshakable choruses, and they are riding a wave of praise thanks to the challenging revelations all over their latest, grandest record, We Are All Where We Belong. The album’s material could easily have befallen polemic suffocation [...]
John Beringer Senior Contributor Artist: Zulu Pearls Album: No Heroes No Honeymoons Comments: No Heroes No Honeymoons is the debut full-length album from Zulu Pearls, the newly minted musical project of songwriter Zach Van Hoozer. He reportedly wrote the record between bar shifts and throwaway jobs while living in both Washington D.C. and Berlin, so his transnational music [...]
7inch Sunday is a segment devoted entirely to 7” vinyl and the all-encompassing experience surrounding it. Although most publications cover major releases, the vinyl single is often overlooked and given nothing more than a half-hearted nod of acknowledgement. This weekly feature is a hub for 7” reviews, exploring the B-sides and rarities of artists that [...]
Hailing from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Rain Over St. Ambrose are a young rock and roll band who do just about everything right on their full-length debut album, Truth For News. The band, Cory LeBlanc (guitar/vocals), Marc Durkee (bass/vocals), Curt Le Blanc (guitar), Luke Amirault (drums), Matt Amirault (keys), rip through eleven invigorating rock songs that [...]
7inch Sunday is a segment devoted entirely to 7” vinyl and the all-encompassing experience surrounding it. Although most publications cover major releases, the vinyl single is often overlooked and given nothing more than a half-hearted nod of acknowledgement. This weekly feature is a hub for 7” reviews, exploring the B-sides and rarities of artists that [...]
Renowned Brooklyn merrymakers and party-inciters Matt & Kim lived up to their ecstatic live persona even more than ever before during their Indianapolis performance on Friday night, while critically acclaimed, young rockers Oberhofer delivered a scorching introductory set to open the show for the sold-out Indy crowd at The Vogue. Oberhofer is the band driven [...]
I arrived at Metro Chicago for the Heartless Bastards show earlier than I had originally planned, which is to say I was able to catch the very first act on the bill for once. Dana Falconberry was finishing up her set and I saw just enough of the folk songstress to throw out an assertion: she needs to sing at either [...]
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