An Interview with Mikal Cronin
By Chad Pope
As the year in music comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on what music will define 2015. Earlier this year Mikal Cronin released his third record under his name, MCIII. He has pro...
Album Review: Homeshake- Midnight Snack
By Mitch Britton
I first heard of HOMESHAKE after watching our favorite indie poster-boy Mac DeMarco give them a shout out during a 2014 Salad Days Q & A. At the time, I didn’t realize that the band was ...
Album Review: TWIABP- Harmlessness
By Colin Hyde
The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die’s sophomore full
length is one of the most ambitious emo revival records of recent years. At almost 54 minutes in
...
Album Review: Radioactivity – Silent Kill
At this point I think we can all agree The Marked Men are one of the most important punk bands of the last fifteen years. I use the present tense since the band still exists in some form, though their most acti...
Album Review: Holly Herndon – Platform
In the summer of 2013, the poet Kenneth Goldsmith curated an odd exhibit in a Mexico City gallery. Given the prosaic title, “Printing Out the Internet,” the project aimed to print out the entire internet in ord...
Album Review: Yowler – The Offer
Yowler is the pseudonym of Columbus, OH, resident Maryn Jones. She’s also in the bands Saintseneca and All Dogs, the former being the creators of my favorite album of 2014, Dark Arc. This album, The Offer, is h...
EP Review: Sunflower Bean – Show Me Your Seven Secrets
By Trevor Morrison
Young, NYC-based band Sunflower Bean have a lot to brag about. For one, they’re all either going to high school at this moment or they just graduated high school, were deemed the “hardest-wo...
Album Review: Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear
By Dan Manning
At its core, Father John Misty’s I love You Honeybear is an album composed of mostly love songs (as its title implies). It tells the story of how Misty, or Josh Tillman, came to meet, fall in lo...
Album Review: Mount Eerie – Sauna
By Trevor Morrison
How frightening is the thought of your own death, alone, in remote wilderness with only a barely flickering fire to keep you company? Not a soul is near. You are alone. There’s snow on the g...
Album Review: Viet Cong – Viet Cong
By Dan Manning
Viet Cong's self-titled LP opens with an immense, industrial booming, as if someone at the other end of the factory is banging their head against a stack of the heaviest sheet metal. The opening...