Chris Garneau
El Radio
Absolute Kosher
9/10
Piano and pop don’t mix- at least that’s the conventional wisdom with regard to “popular” music. Yet Chris Garne... Read More...
The Urgency
Self –Titled
Island Records
8/10
When one thinks of a band name like “The Urgency”, images of young twenty-somethings dolled up in lipstick... Read More...
Flying has always been an escape for me. Ever since I was 12, I’ve always looked forward to the prospect of taking to the air and touching down hours later in a... Read More...
Kinetic Stereokids
Kid Moves
Overdraft Recordings
7/10
The word eclectic was written for the Kinetic Stereokids. Despite getting little airplay from mainstr... Read More...
Automatic Drawing
Captain and the Sea
Unsigned
8/10
Few bands are as impressive as Automatic Drawing. Since the band’s inception in the mid 00’s, the unsign... Read More...
Asobi Seksu
Hush
EMI Japan/Polyvinyl Records
7/10
Sometimes it can seem that eclectic rock is a hit and miss proposition. That certainly appears to be the c... Read More...
Harlem Shakes
Technicolor Health
Gigantic Music
8/10
Positive and peppy- two words that describe Harlem Shakes in a nutshell. Despite coming from a crowded... Read More...
Ume
Sunshower
Pretty Activity
9/10
There is grunge, and then there is Ume. Their most recent album Sunshower is a short five track EP that is a far cry from... Read More...
Hot Chip With Robert Wyatt and Geese
Self-titled
EMI
7/10
In the history of EPs, there have been plenty that could best be described as odd, different, or n... Read More...
Jon Bonamassa
Les Paul and Friends: A Tribute To A Legend
Immergent
10/10
Les Paul is a legend. Period. He pioneered the electric guitar, invented the world... Read More...
Miniature Tigers
Tell It to the Volcano
Modern Art Records
8/10
February is the month of hits and misses and tender kisses, so it is appropriate that an alb... Read More...
My Dear Disco
Dancethink
8/10
Electronica is admittedly not the easiest genre to get into. Chalk it down to the artificial, metallic voice of the artists, th... Read More...
Douglas Coupland
Eleanor Rigby
Bloomsbury Publishing
8/10
The subject of loneliness- especially in the context of romance or life in general- is not one tha... Read More...
Gavin Castleton
Home
Five One, Inc.
8/10
Some albums are haunting, others are bizarre, and still others are downright incomprehensible. Gavin Castleton’s H... Read More...
You might say that Ian Spiegelman is a funny man with a funny name. The novelist and former Gawker editor has made a career lampooning politicians, bankers, an... Read More...
Richie James Follin
Battle
Self-Released
8/10
Few artists have the honor of being able to say the put an album together themselves. Maybe they produced the ... Read More...
