by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Apr 4, 2023 | Album Reviews
Protagonists, the third record from Manchester post-punkers IST IST wastes no time. “Stamp You Out” opens with a fuzzed bass hammering hard on a single note like a call to arms. Urgent drums and chiming guitars answer the call with a rush, joined shortly...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Mar 21, 2023 | Industry News/Analysis
Last week the Cure made the bombshell announcement that they would tour North America for the first time since 2016. This obviously brought elation to fans all over the continent, especially in places that the Cure hadn’t visited in two decades. However, that...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Mar 17, 2023 | Album Reviews
There seems to be a misconception that intimacy is the realm of quietness. Intimate music is played by a single person with an acoustic guitar or maybe a piano mic’d so close that you can hear the sound of their mouth opening before they sing their closest...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Mar 15, 2023 | Reviews
Few acts in the last few years have managed to offer such powerful and gorgeous music as New York trio Spotlights. With three powerful albums already in their catalog, expectations are high for their fourth full-length, Alchemy For the Dead, coming April 28th. And if...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Mar 10, 2023 | Album Reviews
The lo-fi aesthetic isn’t as unavoidable as it used to be. Fizzling atmospheres and tape glitches used to be the unavoidable artifacts of the auteur who couldn’t afford to buy a nice recording machine or rent studio time. But ever since Apple decided to...
