Unlike their previous releases, fixed::context sounds far less microscopically scientific; this time, their approach is noticeably more melodic and even old, but not in a dated sense, like...
Attention: For those in need of a genuinely dense dose of psychedelia then look no further. Just listen. For this particular venture (their first since leaving the Sub Pop label) the trio reverts deep...
It seems like there is something in every issue of Tape Op coming from those prolific sages in Tucson, but if they would stop making great records, we'd stop writing about them. This one is a...
The debut EP from this New York band is an inspiration for the jaded... for those who don't have the patience or energy to traverse through the weeds. Founded upon beautiful melodic interplay between...
Dating back to the Swell Maps and the Styrenes, bands approaching home recording with inexpensive technology often combined conventional pop elements with strange approaches to texture and layering....
These days, defining the function of a 'remixer' is just as enigmatic and open-ended to explanation, much like the role of a 'producer'. But for Aix Em Klemm, a duo consisting of Labradford's Bobby...
In the US and England, bands whose recordings in the early 1970s sounded great often made excessively slick and polished records as technology evolved. The earliest recordings on this compilation CD...
Chris Lee writes songs that are strong, sensual, and sad. He delivers his lines with vowel-bending vocal inflections, somewhat akin to Van Morrison. On this album, produced with Steve Shelley of Sonic...
As always, one can expect nothing less than eccentric-eclecticism when it comes to the musical tornado that is the Dinner Is Ruined band. This new slab of their...
David Garza plays guitar, writes songs, and sings them. He does all of these very well - his sophomore release on Atlantic Records will be out sometime in 2001. As he is quite prolific, he puts out...
You don't usually think of blues records and innovative record production in the same thought. Or if you do, you might think of some yucky overproduced album run through Pro Tools like the recent BB...
While it has grown common for rock bands to record on cassette decks in houses, jazz artists still tend to capture their work in studios. In 1976, before most rock bands recorded themselves at home,...
