8+ hour, 4+ min ago   (296+ words) The Big Takeover It’s a hot day; the sun is streaming through the office window; the cat is lounging on the wall outside doing a passable impression of those clocks in Dali’s Persistence of Memory, and I have a crisp…...

8+ hour, 14+ min ago   (357+ words) The Big Takeover With all things goth, post-punk, and darkwave having a real resurgence of late, Deadlight Dance finds itself perfectly placed to surf the dark prevailing zeitgeist. Not that you could accuse this duo of bandwagoning; making such music…...

3+ hour, 13+ min ago   (214+ words) I first interviewed Anna-Lynne Williams (ALW) in 2013. You can check out that interview here. Thanks to Carl Schultz from Action Public Relations for setting this up as a refresher and an homage to Having’s reissue. EK: Were you surprised when…...

9+ hour, 39+ min ago   (264+ words) Even though Sunrise Hunters, the latest album from Tessa and Friends, runs from the most understated indie to quite anthemic rock, there is always something dreamy about it, music that seems to arrive at the listener having picked up hazy…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (278+ words) The Big Takeover If Bruce Springsteen made pop records, this is what they’d sound like. Okay, that is a bit of a throwaway, rhetorical statement, but it does get to the heart of the sound that Shawn Brown gets on…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (228+ words) The Big Takeover As “Bigger and Brighter” explodes from minimal chill-step into a bigger and brighter (ha!) electro-pop soundscape, you realize that what you thought might be another bunch of ambient popsters are actually a lot smarter and a lot…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (310+ words) The Big Takeover If you are going to cover other people’s songs, then you need to bring something new to the table; otherwise, what is the point? Of course, you could offer up a faithful rendition as a tribute to…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (209+ words) The Big Takeover Most of the music that lands on my desk is merely work. Of course, I put the effort in, but at the end of the day it’s what pays the bills. Then there is music that doesn’t…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (223+ words) Scott Whiddon, a writer, teacher, and musician living in Lexington, Kentucky, releases his new record, Sometimes Just Isn’t Enough, in late September 2026 (on all digital streaming platforms with a limited vinyl release). The album was produced, engineered, and mixed by…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (551+ words) The Big Takeover The lineage of synthesized art-punk has long weaponized kitsch and mechanization against societal despondency. On their third full-length outing the Pacific Northwest duo Odor Eater confronts the hyper-mediated chaos of the late twenties with sharp-witted cynicism and…...