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Tag: alt rock
Black Belt Eagle Scout Takes Listeners Home on ‘The Land, The Water, The Sky’
For some reason, I’m drawn to singer-songwriters that take on monikers that make them sound larger than themselves. Dashboard Confessional, Little Boots and of course The Tallest Man On Earth come to mind. Now, I’m […]
Belle and Sebastian Stay True To Form On ‘A Bit Of Previous’
Call it a combination of the Covid-era, old age and the 90s holding steady in pop culture but I’ve been feeling nostalgic lately. It doesn’t take much to send me down the rabbit hole of […]
Pinegrove Sees Through The Trees On ’11:11′
The tremendous amount of snow still outside after a blizzard blanketed the east coast has me thinking warmly about my time in upstate New York. There is a pastoral quality to the region that provided […]
Pandemic Forces Elbow To Be Flexible In Launching ‘Flying Dream 1’
I think the whole pandemic has made me appreciate the quiet. It could have been the stay-at-home orders for nearly a year. It could also have been the year-and-a-half of construction in my apartment building […]
The War On Drugs Sound At Home On ‘I Don’t Live Here Anymore’
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the definition of resiliency. Growing in Atlantic City, I grew up in the shadows of the big city. Before my time, bootleggers would send booze to the coast for not only America’s […]
Orla Gartland Takes Her Own Advice With ‘Woman On The Internet’
I have always loved a good dark comedy. It could be a result of being a child of the 90s or maybe it’s any shred of Irish heritage that I have in me. Besides being […]
Ty Segall Delivers Hot Licks On ‘Harmonizer’
I’ve been dancing around Ty Segall for years now and he hasn’t even known it. How I haven’t latched on to the west-coast multi-instrumentalist sooner is beyond me, but the last conversation I had about […]
St. Vincent Focuses On The Familiar For ‘Daddy’s Home’
Acceptance is a hell of a thing. There’s something about meditation that is accepting each breath for what it is in the present moment and releasing it. It’s supposed to serve as practice for when […]
Ben Kweller Makes A Connection On ‘Circuit Boredom’
Checking in on your friends is important and social media makes it so much easier. Go ahead and take a minute to wish your high school friends congratulations on their baby, or a happy birthday […]