One of the two or three best acts I got to see at Bonnaroo 2011 was an early-in-the-day performance from the disarmingly wonderful and completely understated Sharon Van Etten. Continue Reading...
Adding to the plethora of new music I've heard recently, I'm thrilled to have discovered one of Australia's seemingly best-kept secrets The Sea Thieves. Continue Reading...
The 2011 'Album of the Year' contest continues to heat up with Fleet Foxes' highly-anticipated, wistful song collection Helplessness Blues which is out May 3rd from Sub Pop. Continue Reading...
If you didn't know it, the most anticipated indie album of 2011 has been from Animal Collective member Noah Lennox's solo incarnation, Panda Bear. Continue Reading...
Two key recordings which serve as bookends to Elliott Smith's catalogue of solo recordings, Roman Candle (his first) and From A Basement on the Hill (ostensibly, his last), are being reissued by Kill Rock Stars on 6 April 2010. Roman Candle, Elliott's first album, was issued by Portland's Cavity Search Records in 1994. For the Kill Rock Stars reissue, Roman Candle been remastered by Smith family archivist Larry Crane. Crane, the respected long-time editor of Tape Op Magazine, served in several engineering capacities on Elliott's work over the course of his career, predominantly as owner and operator ...
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