J. Roddy Walston is no stranger to superlatives. Called everything from a “genius” to “a baby of the gospel and blues”, the Maryland-by-way-of-Chattanooga rocke... Read More...
For many Los Angeles residents, Los Angeles International Airport is a towering monument of steel and concrete. A white, modernist structure rising out of the g... Read More...
Just Kids
Patti Smith
HarperCollins Publishers
9/10
New York City, summer, 1969. A hot, sweltering mess full of sweat and musk and bodies colliding agains... Read More...
Somerville, Massachusetts is a quaint little town. Known more for Sanborn maps and Fluff marshmallows, the blue collar city doesn’t exactly scream hip. There ar... Read More...
Sara Jackson Holman
When You Dream
Expunged Records
8/10
As all things musical go, Sara Jackson Holman is an infant. No, not literally. But considering th... Read More...
Blind Pilot
Self-titled (EP)
Expunged Records
9/10
The boys from Portland are back at it again. Fresh off a nationwide tour, the duo of Israel Nebeker and... Read More...
Well, it’s that time of the year again. A moment when everybody crowds around at the local bar, sloshes themselves with their favorite dark pint, and watches t... Read More...
Ryan States
Strange Town
Drooling Class Records
7/10
From Roman ruins to decrepit garages, artists of various stripes have found inspiration in some of th... Read More...
Hotpress for Leopold
Self Titled
Grove Addicts
8/10
Think classical and rock don’t mix? How about classical, rock, orchestras, and xylophones? Got your ... Read More...
Lela Lee is an internet success story. Actually, make that success story, period. In the space of sixteen years, the cartoonist, actress (She’s appeared on Scru... Read More...
Old Canes
Feral Harmonic
Second Nature Recordings
7/10
The first thing when one things of Kansas is…well, Kansas. But there’s more to the Sunflower State... Read More...
Movits!
Appelknyckarjazz
The Syndicate
8/10
Think Sweden, and you may think meatballs, or lutefisk. Not hip-hop. Well, unless you count the Movits!. Th... Read More...
Rich Smedley is a riddle wrapped in a puzzle wrapped in an enigma. The notoriously inaccessible artist has no website of his own, nor does he have a presence o... Read More...
It is the final frontier. 93 billion light years of stars, asteroids and planets spread across a limitless expanse- a beautiful and dangerous world fraught wit... Read More...
They walk among us- accountants, nurses, lawyers, teachers- mild mannered individuals by all accounts, with spouses, children, families, and friends. Few recogn... Read More...
Okay, so you’ve stocked the fridge with your favorite egg-nog/Kalua/wine/beer/depressant of choice, and bought presents for your parents, ex-girlfriend, and fam... Read More...
