The Maxines: Drugstore EP
The Maxines Drugstore EP will remind you why baby-you had a crush on rock ‘n’ roll in the first place.
The Maxines Drugstore EP will remind you why baby-you had a crush on rock ‘n’ roll in the first place.
It’s no rock opera, no concept album. But each track gives the impression of a story, a feeling, and each subsequent track feels like an extension or modulation on that feeling.
Clearlake’s Cedars, opens with a sweet, chugging guitar-driven number (“Almost the Same”) that conjures up visions of Duckie from Pretty in Pink. From 2003.
Tom De Beauchamp reminds you that Phil Elverum reminded you (two years ago!) of the natural world’s warm and haunting vigor. Mount Eerie, Wind’s Poem in review.
You’re in the back of a van with your hands bound and a hood pulled over your head. Light slips in, muted through the rough weave, leaving impressions of..
Dudes with laptops never had it so good. Ben Wills reviews a live performance by Gold Panda, Dam Mantle and Graintable at Rotture in Portland, OR.
Little Wings’ Black Grass album release tour kicks off in Portland with disparate acts White Rainbow and Michael Hurley. Check out a review of the show here.
Tom DeBeauchamp reverse-engineers the narratives of Ilyas Ahmed’s first two avant-folk masterpieces. Smalldoggies Magazine albums in review.
Benjamin Wills revives an old Italo-disco album, Principle of Discovery by Oblio, and talks us through the finer points.
In “I Get Along,” a song from The Libertines’ Up the Bracket, the lead vocalist spits out a drunken “fuck ‘em.” And then other stuff happens. From 2003.
With Sumday, Grandaddy moves back and forth between stories set in the digital realm, and stories of sadness in the human landscape. From 2003.