Category: FEATURES

Stereophonics: Bringing It All Back Home
Kelly Jones of Stereophonics gets reflective on the personal Scream Above The Sounds Kelly Jones still remembers exactly where he

Quicksand: How Soon Is Now?
The post-hardcore innovators in Quicksand return with their first album in more than two decades A number of books telling

Maston: Awake In The Dark
Maston’s Tulips is a love letter to primitive-cool European film scores L.A.-based producer/composer Frank Maston had always wanted to live

Kllo: Modern Maturity
On Backwater, the young Australian cousins in Kllo go for an adult swim Melbourne’s Kllo makes music for lost souls,

The Lone Bellow: Central Air
Spurred by a change in scenery, the Lone Bellow breathes deep and expels its best album For a band prone

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Joy Formidable
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith brings a human side to her metal-machine music No one was more surprised about the rapturous critical

Bully: Raw Power
On Losing, Bully returns with songs of love and loss (or beating on yourself) Bully deals with raw emotion, delivering

SAVAK: But Seriously, Folks
Moniker aside, SAVAK’s tunes and intentions are no laughing matter As a joke, SAVAK singer/songwriter/guitarist Sohrab Habibion—formerly of Obits and

JD McPherson: Vintage Post-Postmodernism
’50s-style punk JD McPherson scares the squares with his Undivided Heart & Soul “Being an art-school kid, I learned that

Julien Baker: Staying Power
Julien Baker begins to make peace with her demons and the spotlight Julien Baker was an 18-year-old at Middle Tennessee

The Barr Brothers: Raising The Barrs
By looking backward, the Barr Brothers are leaping forward Queens Of The Breakers (Secret City), the new album from Montreal

Tortoise: Document And Eyewitness
The Catastrophist Tour Book captures Tortoise’s onstage energy “Nothing in Tortoise ever happens quickly,” says bassist/guitarist Doug McCombs, in what

Destroyer: Use Your Delusion
With his new Destroyer album, Dan Bejar once again renews his license to confuse When John Ashbery died in September,

End Christian: Extreme Makeover
With End Christian, members of Hex Inverter, Brutal Truth, Dälek and others explore their subdued sides “Indie-rock disco” was how