Yes, the title of this article is really dumb. So was the idea that the world was going to end. I’m glad it didn’t because I have a ton planned for 2013 and beyond. I did a bunch of Best of 2012 radio shows (a Crush Collision mix and two editions of The Answer...
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A year in the making, Life Like releases its first compilation, as well as its first non-limited release.
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So out of nowhere, a new lineup of Saturday Looks Good To Me has been playing shows and writing a few new songs.
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It isn’t every day that I review a release with 40 tracks on it.
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2011 was a pretty swell year for music, made even better for me because now I’m a music director at WCBN, and also because I’m now a DJ on the station’s long-running mix show, Crush Collision. I did a 2-hour mix of some of my favorite trax of the year on that show, and...
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Damned Dogs’ first tape (which you can download here) is one of my favorites of the year; instead of a proper follow-up, though, this is a tape of live recordings the duo did while visiting the Pacific Northwest this past summer.
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Yet another installment of the endless series of limited tape releases by Ryan Howard and Fred Thomas. This is my probably favorite so far, I’m feeling this one a lot.
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Swimsuit’s debut full-length will be out on vinyl soon, but this is a special limited tour-only cassette version, featuring a solo side by each of the four band members.
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City Center’s new album Redeemer is coming out this month on K Records, and not too long after that, Swimsuit’s debut LP will be out as well. In between celebrating record releases, these 3 bands will be touring the west and midwest all month. You might be familiar with City Center from their first...
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A few months ago, a tape by a project called Settle appeared, and it was incredible.
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Damned Dogs consists of half of the members of Swimsuit, but it doesn’t resemble their surfy psych-pop in the least.
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The six tracks on this tape by one-man band Curtains alternate between upbeat, almost funky lo-fi pop, and rolling keyboard drones.
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Racecardriver is the alias of a reclusive Ann Arbor resident who creates bizarre, transportive sounds using a mandolin, keyboard and distortion pedal.
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