by Sean Passmore | May 4, 2018 | Album of the Week
It’s been 4 years since former White Stripe Jack White released, from a purely structural point of view, possibly the coolest record of all time. The limited edition three-speed “Ultra” LP version of his 2014 Lazaretto album not only played backwards from the inside...
by Sean Passmore | Apr 27, 2018 | Album of the Week
Soon to be 40-year-old Nathaniel Rateliff had been hanging at the precipice of a struggling music career since his early 20s. The Denver, Colorado based blue eyed soul singer released four albums in six years under various guises with little to no success before...
by Sean Passmore | Apr 20, 2018 | Album of the Week
Austin, Texas quartet The Sword (not to be confused with their 1980s heavy metal counterpart The Sword from Quebec, Canada) have suffered the slings and arrows of numerous tags and labels in the 15 years since their inception in 2003. For better or worse certain heavy...
by Sean Passmore | Apr 13, 2018 | Album of the Week
Sharing a title with its 2010 predecessor, the most recent of back-to-back eponymously titled Stone Temple Pilots records is as much a spirited new beginning as its predecessor was a final definitive end. The reenergized DeLeo brothers (guitarist Dean DeLeo and...
by Sean Passmore | Apr 4, 2018 | Album of the Week
The story behind Insecure Men’s debut record began with Saul Adamczewski teaming up with old school chum Ben Romans-Hopcraft (of the band Childhood) to form the duo after being asked to temporarily depart from his primary occupation as guitarist and main songwriter...
