• Review: Grails – Chalice Hymnal

    There is an urban myth that did the rounds about a few years ago. It concerns the editor of the incredibly well informed and, some would say, most on the ball fanzine to be found among  the cast aside chip papers and club flyers on the pavements of Devonshire Green. The story goes that said…

  • The Making of Dinner Music – Studio Diaries #4

    -The Second Rehearsal- I had finally scored a bed. At this point I had shifted to the center room, and ended up managing to stake a claim to that room for a majority of the sessions. Joe was on the couch that morning. I tried not to wake him as I stumbled out of the…

  • Review: Pilosa – Such Animals

      Sheffield, what’s going on? Ten years ago, you could throw a can of lager into the air and once it came crashing down, ten indie bands with faint mascara and fake Grenoside accents would slurp the foam seeping into the pavement. Arctic Monkeys copycats are now an old memory, no longer a trend poisoning…

  • Making Dinner Music: Studio Diaries #3

    Chapter 3:  The First Rehearsal On the 3rd morning we all awoke very early. We had to drive Lauren to the train station so she could go back back home to KCMO. The Chicago train station wasn’t too far from out place, so we thought as an act of solidarity we’d all go and see…

  • Making Dinner Music: Studio Diaries #2

    Chapter 2: Darts and Tacos It hadn’t quite sunk in yet. I was sitting on the couch of our AirBnB with Joe, watching episode 1 of Vice Principals (during the sessions, this show and Stranger Things became our decompression shows after days in the studio). It didn’t quite feel real to me at this point.…

  • Making Dinner Music: Studio Diaries #1

    Chapter #1 – Re: Grouping *Author’s Note – The recording of this album took place during July 16th – 30th. As a result of that, my tense during these missives will be all over the place. Sorry. If you’ve ever been in a band or partaken in a creative endeavour (doesn’t have to be making…

  • Review: Shores – Shores

    Slocore. How do you define it? It has a sauntering beat. It smoulders through the veins. It sticks around like the smell of incense in a church after Palm Sunday. It works in crescendos that never quite explode. It stays around, haunting you, forever. Shores are great at Slocore. They are also great at Space Rock.…

  • Video: Molinette Cinema – Bicicleta

    Come and join Molinette Cinema on a gentle stroll through the bike-friendly fields of ‘Bicicleta’, their newest video. A surreal adventure that involves dinosaur onesies and Grand Theft Crystal ball, ‘Bicicleta’ follows our unnamed protagonist through different chapters. Like the levels of an inexistent point-and-click videogame, items are collected, traded and acquired through the five finger discount,…

  • Review: La Sera – Queens EP

    Whoa, Katy Goodman, slow down! Three releases in a year! And all good to boot! Queens is a rapid-fire EP delivered just in time for a new La Sera tour, and in its curt 18 minutes, it motors through emotions, swathing our hearts with warm guitars and some shredding solos. Yes, shredding solos. In a La Sera album. The…

  • 30 days, 30 bands – #30 The Clench

     By all means, I can’t justify my love of country. I’m Mexican, so the closest decent thing we’ve got to country on the radio are John Denver songs and maybe a few Johnny Cash songs. Heck, you might find a few people, all of them over thirty, who know Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, but that’s…