by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Feb 22, 2023 | Reviews
It was an unseasonably warm February day in 2005. I was a senior in high school, and my long-distance girlfriend had just made the three-hour trip between our homes for the first time. After a day of giddy, aimless drives and watching Napoleon Dynamite for probably...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Feb 15, 2023 | Industry News/Analysis
Growing up, I spent every summer at a youth church camp in the Thumb of Michigan. It was a formative place for me, and I still have close friends that I made in the dust-covered, mud-puddled campground there between a cornfield and a dairy farm. Every year, camp was...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Feb 10, 2023 | Premieres
We’re pleased to premiere the new video for Quiet Signals’ titular track. Quiet Signals is the new instrumental post rock project from Ohio guitarist Nick Kizirnis, who is best known for his work with Midwest surf trio The Mulchmen, though he has...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Feb 8, 2023 | Album Reviews
By now, just about everyone knows what to expect from a Narrow Head record. Their brief career has already cemented them as one of today’s foremost 90s Revivalists, so even though Moments of Clarity is only their third full length, their reputation has lent it...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Feb 8, 2023 | Album Reviews
We’re pleased to premiere “Fulton County Jail Blues,” the new single from Blanket Fort, the solo project of Brett Green, formerly of Mineral Girls and Group Text. The track finds a crisp drum beat carrying layers of spindly acoustics and bristling...