Nashville Pop: Canny Rehash? Spawn of Satan?
We can’t look away. Like a hillside full of picnickers at a Civil War bloodbath, or a beer-swilling teen watching a train hit a semi, we can’t believe the skill… Read More →
Sunshine and Rain: Aural Seedlings from The Crowd Scene
Sometimes a record comes along that is just plain beautiful. And that record is for your immersion. Fronted by the husband-and-wife tandem of Grahame Davies and Anne Rogers, and supported… Read More →
The Matthew Show: Story in Song, Song in Story
Have you tuned in yet to the Texas-based art-pop collective the matthew show? Their amazing new record, february, is out this morning. Sardonic yet compassionate, this tuneful, idiosyncratic disc lands at… Read More →
Joel Plaskett: Dig this Concept
Last year Wampus artist Kowtow Popof introduced us to a record called Ashtray Rock by Canadian songwriter Joel Plaskett and his band the Joel Plaskett Emergency. This under-the-radar disc wasn’t just… Read More →
Jill Bolte Taylor: Creativity and the Brain
Artists sometimes lament their inability to isolate the creative impulse. If only they could captivate the Muse, they reason, they could accomplish so much more. Maybe if they had a deeper understanding… Read More →