The Dead Ships released their first full length album, Electric Ahab, on Valentine’s Day and it’s nine blasts of guitar, drum, and those same awesome vox that hit the crossroads between the 50’s and the double-aughts. “Sordid” is first track from the LP. While lacking…
Do you like sparse pop love tracks that are reminiscent of the Moldy Peaches? Well, Sirens’ favorites Inspired And The Sleep are back with some Valentine’s goodness just for you. “What I Want And What I Need” is mostly uke and finger snap driven, feel…
Diamond Rugs – Gimme A Beer If Cobain gave up stringing obscure words together and just got straight to the point, you’d roughly have “Gimme A Beer” by Diamond Rugs. It’s mostly unadulterated garage rock (there are some horns, oh my!), and it’s subject matter…
Fort Lean – Sunsick Until yesterday I knew little and less about Fort Lean. They’ve popped up in my inbox more than once, but I never gave them a good listen for some reason. I’m not sure if it was because I had too many…
Darlingside released the first of their wonderful 7” series to the world today, all in buildup to their upcoming album Pilot Machines which will be completed and released later this year. The good news? As they are in the studio working on Pilot Machines, they are…
The D.A. – Big Woman Have you ever read “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern? No? It’s ok. It might not be your thing. “Big Woman” definitely reminds me of the beginnings of the circus in that book, though. The D.A. are dance rock enthusiasts,…
Vocals belting, guitars clattering and clanging; The Ross Sea Party re-emerges in 2012 like thunder. Or maybe it’s with a track called “Thunder”. Same thing, right? With the “whoa-oh-oh-oh’s” and rise and fall of Brady Erickson’s vocals the track feels like some kind of spring…
It’s been ridiculously warm here in Virginia this winter. I think we’ve had three days of temperatures below freezing, as well as no snow here in the Richmond area. This is unheard of weather. I’m used to November/December/January being below freezing, and at least a…
I used to live in Knoxville, TN before work forced my wife and I to relocate to our current residence outside of Richmond. Knoxville has some good music coming out of it, namely Sirens favorite The Black Cadillacs, and the same can be said of Nashville…of…
January has come and gone and Subway says it’s now Februany. I don’t know about all that, but I do know this past month has seen some excellent music cross my doorstep. The albums and MP3’s kept rolling in and here’s the consensus best….
