I don’t know what’s more surprising — turning on the internet and finding brand new material from my favorite band, The Mary Onettes, or listening to that new material and discovering that the world’s undeclared kings of melancholy have gone and gotten borderline cheerful on us! Maybe it has something to do with pairing up… Continue Reading
Back in 2010, Seattle’s Mike Hadreas (aka Perfume Genius) released his lovingly crafted debut, Learning, an LP so intimate in content and form that it was easy to feel like you just discovered it hiding at the bottom of his underwear drawer. A very magical underwear drawer no less, where a sweeping Sigur Ros-esque drone… Continue Reading
Getting this site back off the ground always takes me longer than I expect (chalk it up to being terminally anal retentive), so once more I am behind the curve on my 2011 lists. Still, I needed to (re)launch with the first of the monthly mixtapes in tow, and this seemed like as good a… Continue Reading
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