Contributions
John Singer Sergeant - John Singer Sergeant
John Singer Sergeant John Singer Sergeant Unless you're a serious art historian, the name John Singer Sergeant isn't going to mean much to you. In the context of this album, the name is a fake, chosen by multi-instrumentalist John Dufilho, a Texas-based gent who has logged time with the Deathray Davies and the Apples In […]
Joan Of Arc - Joan Of Arc Presents Joan Of Arc
Joan Of Arc Joan Of Arc Presents Joan Of Arc Chicago music collective Joan Of Arc have already proclaimed their love for foreign/avant garde cinema (the artwork for their album Live In Chicago, 1999 consisted of recreations of scenes from Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 masterpiece Week End). And there can be no denying the artful leanings […]
Geoff Farina - The Wishes Of The Dead
Geoff Farina The Wishes Of The Dead The best artists, be they musicians, painters or filmmakers, never stop striving to learn more about their chosen craft. In that respect, Geoff Farina is one of the greats. The guitar virtuoso spent much of the ’90s inventing math rock with his long-running trio Karate and giving today's […]
The Big Pink - Future This
The Big Pink Future This The Big Pink represent far more than simply the duo behind the admittedly fantastic earworm single “Dominos” from their 2009 release A Brief History Of Love. That album and Future This, their second full-length, places the band as one of the main representatives of the radical shift that the indie […]
Jimmy Cliff - Sacred Fire EP
Jimmy Cliff Sacred Fire EP To the outside observer, the news of Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong working with reggae legend Jimmy Cliff might be cause for alarm. But if you've dug into the work that Armstrong has done outside the Rancid fold—particularly his 2007 solo effort, A Poet’s Life—you'd know that Cliff is in very […]
Run Kid Run - Patterns
Run Kid Run Patterns You really never know what you're going to get with a self-proclaimed Christian rock band. Will it be blatant proselytizing? Will the band stuff their beliefs as far into their collective back pocket as possible lest they miss out on a chance at success? Or God forbid, will the band find […]
City Lights - In It To Win It
City Lights In It To Win It Aren't the boys in City Lights a little too young to be griping about getting older? Yet, that's exactly what they do on their debut album. These fresh-faced pop-punkers spend the entirety of “Please Let Me Know” venting their spleen about kids these days “talking shit on the […]
Mike Park - Smile
Mike Park Smile As the punks and hipsters of the world have gotten older, there's been a huge market for music aimed at the children of said punks and hipsters. It makes sense as we try to prematurely make our kids cool while at the same time insisting that the music written and recorded for […]
The Front Bottoms - The Front Bottoms
The Front Bottoms The Front Bottoms While the similar-sounding Andrew Jackson Jihad have been making a slow slide into the vast seas of pure pop music by way of folk-punk, New Jersey duo the Front Bottoms have cannonballed in with nary a second thought. So, what guitarist/vocalist Brian Sella and drummer Matt Uychich lack in […]