Real Estate – Days (2011) review
Real Estate "Days" (Domino, 2011) With their bigger production and more self-assured nature, Days rolls along filled with a bright panoramic of jangling guitars, brining to mind those...
Jenell Kesler
Galaxie 500 – ‘The Portable Galaxie 500’ (1998)
It goes with out saying that boxed sets can be a bit overwhelming, if not daunting, at times ... ‘less of course you’re a die hard completist, which...
Chatham Rise – Chatham Rise (2013) review
Chatham Rise "Chatham Rise" (2013) review Chatham Rise hypnotically undulates, mesmerizing in a hazy fashion of lo-fi psychedelia that’s expansive and dense, yet never rises above the trance-like...
Bad Liquor Pond – Radiant Transmission (2008) review
Bad Liquor Pond "Radiant Transmission" (MT6 Records, 2008) Just off I-40, where the New Mexico horizon meshes with the sky, there’s a roadside cafe, and at times, or...
Bad Liquor Pond interview
Hey ... thanks for sitting down with me, this place reminds me of upstairs at Kung Fu Necktie, but then, so many Green Rooms have this look. So,...
Wooden Shjips – Back to Land (2013) review
Wooden Shjips "Back to Land" (Thrill Jockey, 2013) Wooden Shjips, San Francisco’s neo-psychedelic hippy-dippy pirate band have been around long enough to be the centerpiece of hazy inspired...
Bad Liquor Pond – Blue Smoke Orange Sky (2012) review
Bad Liquor Pond "Blue Smoke Orange Sky" (2012) I sincerely doubt that any of the songs lifted from Blue Smoke Orange Sky could pass a drug test, as...
Secret Colours – Peach (2013) review
Secret Colours "Peach" (2013) Secret Colours stumbled out of the studio hazed and dazed ... well, at least that’s how I like to imagine it. But truth be...
Grateful Dead – Sunshine Daydream: Veneta Oregon 8/27/72 (2013) review
Grateful Dead "Sunshine Daydream: Veneta Oregon 8/27/72" (Rhino, 2013) Twenty years ago this review would have taken on an entirely different flavor, and back in '72, fresh off...
Dean Wareham – ‘Emancipated Hearts’ (2013)
Enigmatic lo-fi dream-pop hipster Dean Wareham has wandered in with a new romantic 10" solo album that touches all the right nerves, and pushes all the right buttons,...