Editors: Violence | Is Violence The Answer?
Violence is the best work Editors have released, hopefully leading to greater things and not be a full stop. Violence seems to be the answer.
Album Reviews
Massive Attack: Mezzanine | Close Your Eyes and Reinvent Me | 20th Anniversary
Massive Attack's third album Mezzanine is the space between what Massive Attack was, and what the group was on the cusp of evolving into. The album has its 20th anniversary on 4-20-2018 and Kevin Krein celebrates the albums timeless nature.
Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour | What A World
Kacey Musgraves new record Golden Hour does all the things you’d want a great country record to do, plus a few you wouldn't expect, writes M Milner, which not only makes it her best yet, but an early contender for the best record of 2018.
Mr. Airplane Mansplainin’ Miss Margaret Garrett
Review of Jacaranda Blue and feature on Mr. Airplane Man's guitarist and vocalist, the Divine Prophet Miss Margaret Garrett.
Miles Davis and John Coltrane | The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series Vol. 6
The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 covers Miles Davis and John Coltrane's 1960 tour through Europe, both their first exposure to an international audience and the last times they'd play together. It's a worthy addition to both their catalogues, writes B.G.M.'s M Milner.
Love Ire & Song: An Ode to Frank Turner’s Coming Of Age
Concerning Love Ire & Song’s ten year marker quickly passing by, Frank Turner’s evolution of a punk turned poet-laureate is a moment captured in history where the manifestation hadn’t quite set in, but was soon becoming.
Album Review: Underoath – Erase Me | Its Dangerous Business Leaving Your Old Sound
Bottom line: Erase Me is not an Underoath record. Same band name, because that is what everyone knows them as, but if I am being honest, this sounds a lot more like the second Sleepwave record. Screamo is officially dead, and Underoath get that. But, I just cannot get into this.
Wye Oak: The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs | Embracing the Future while Barely Looking Back
The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs is not a defining artistic statement for Wye Oak. Arguably that is the make or break desperation and immediacy of Civilian; however, this time around, it finds Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack growing more comfortable into the sonic palate they’ve found themselves in.
Sonny Rollins: Way Out West (2018 Reissue) | East Coast Meets West Coast
Craft Recordings' 2018 reissue of Sonny Rollins' 1957 record Way Out West offers a deeper look into his historic session with Shelly Manne and Ray Brown, writes M Milner, making it a worthy reissue of a jazz classic!
Album and Beer Pairing: Rolling Stones – Some Girls | Samuel Smith – Oatmeal Stout
The punk and disco infused Rolling Stones' Some Girls pairs well with Samuel Smith's oatmeal stout, a once popular beer in the 1800's before it was made famous once again in the 1980's thanks to the traditionalist brewery of Yorkshire.