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Album Review: Sonny Smith – 100 Records, Vol. 3

Joshua Pickard·January 29, 2013

Whether you enjoy Sonny Smith’s surf-inspired rock with Sonny & the Sunsets or feel that it’s a little...

Will Ryan·January 29, 2013

The Haxan Cloak’s eponymous debut was a creaky, groaning bestial presence at the center of an abandoned, apocalypse-ravaged house....

Colin Joyce·January 29, 2013

Brattleboro, VT’s Zach Phillips and Sarah Smith have always struggled in one way or another to keep their...

Brendan Frank·January 28, 2013

Compare them to whomever you will, Local Natives are coming into their own. Over the past few years,...

Joshua Pickard·January 28, 2013

What happens when an artist is carried along on a tide of musical criticism and useless labeling? Since...

Brendan Frank·January 28, 2013

Bet you didn’t see this coming. After a five-year span of touch-and-go recording sessions that would eventually become...

Will Ryan·January 28, 2013

Anyone who followed Jacques Greene’s 2012 output might be a little taken aback with the Canadian producer’s newest...

Joshua Pickard·January 25, 2013

David Hartley knows how to put a high-gloss shine on his music. Oak Island, his debut album as...

Rob Hakimian·January 25, 2013

Violet Cries, the title of Esben and the Witch’s debut album, is a nice summation of the sound...

Josh Becker·January 25, 2013

Matt Hill is from Missouri, but you’d be forgiven for thinking he’s time traveled to these shores from...