Album Review: I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Author: Sofi Gonstead After a 4 year hiatus, The War On Drugs has once again released a record that immediately and unsurprisingly evoked every emotion in my body. I’m...
Album Reviews
An Album You Should Know: Habibi Funk 007: An Eclectic Selection of Music from the Arab World
Photo Courtesy of: Habibi Funk Records Author: Sofi Gonstead On this edition of An Album You Should Know, we’re getting real funky. The 2017 record known as Habibi Funk...
An Album You Should Know: Mug Museum
Photo courtesy of: Domino Music Publishing Author: Sofi Gonstead I used to dislike Cate le Bon. Why? For absolutely no good reason. Let me explain. When my friends and...
THE BEST MUSIC OF 2020
Author: Riley Urbano It’s 2021, and music has never sounded better, or mattered less. Some of it did, at least to me, but so much of the work that...
Sharon Van Etten’s Bittersweet ‘Remind Me Tomorrow’
Author: Megan Karangutkar Header: Album cover courtesy of Jagjaguwar “Sitting at the bar, I told you everything / You said ‘holy sh*t’” The first lines of Sharon Van...
Album of the Month – “Sex & Honey” by Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Photo by Neil Krug Written by Emma Weaver The modern psychedelic band, Unknown Mortal Orchestra (UMO), recently released an album, Sex & Food, after their three year hiatus. Comprised...
An Album You Need To Listen To: Hats by The Blue Nile
Album art for Hats by The Blue Nile A person very dear to me listens to albums start from finish and only focuses on that one album for a...
The Duo Finds Their Groove: Reviewing Sylvan Esso’s What Now
[Photo: ‘What Now’ album art] What Now, released April 28, 2017, is the second full-length album from Sylvan Esso, a Durham, North Carolina-based pop duo. The members of the...
A New Direction: The Maturation of Harry Styles
As I begin to write this article, I realize there’s a change from my usual writing environment. I’m writing from my old bedroom back at home in Portland, OR,...
The New Season Blossoms in Young Mothers’ “Spring”
[Photo courtesy of Young Mothers’ Facebook page] After some teasing through a fairly dramatic starring of their friend Tanner (see below), Young Mothers are back with their latest single,...