mazzy's debut hits it out of the park! an almost perfect album and certainly on my list of 100 albums to take to deserted island, taste of blood and ghost highway are perfect driving faster than you should be songs. halah and ride it on put most of what's out there today to shame. fase into you may be better known but this is her best!(although any mazzy is splendid) !
It's clear from the get-go on A Constant Sea, the debut from Brooklyn psych-sludgers Heliotropes that something ain't right. On the album cover, a grim, skeletal visage peers out from the shadows. Thirty seconds into the first song, frontwoman Jessica Numsuwankijkul warns "red comes rushing through your skies" over the same gristle-greased guitars that occupied the better part of Smashing Pumpkins' Gish. The record remains just as grim throughout, a turbulent meditation on loss and… more »
When I get the two founding members of Virginia power-poppers Eternal Summers on the phone, they're living up to their name. Drummer and occasional vocalist Daniel Cundiff is house-sitting for a friend in rural Roanoke, recovering from the band's just-wrapped East Coast tour by "hanging out, watching movies" and — the leisurely activity he's engaged in during our interview — playing fetch with his friend's dog in the backyard ("Ahh, sorry, there are some ants… more »
There is every other music festival and then there is Coachella, the California-desert weekend that, in many ways, set the template for all that followed. The first U.S. festival to boast big-ticket reunions and all-over-the-map booking, Coachella continues to maintain its distinctive, idiosyncratic personality. Needless to say, navigating such a wide array of music can be tricky. We've picked 25 acts worth making time for. more »
