by Sean Passmore | Nov 17, 2018 | Album of the Week
Ben Howard is a 31-year-old British folk singer/songwriter from the Devonshire/Cornwall area of south western England. For a decade now he has been releasing EPs and long players channelling his own post millennial take on the acoustic British folk music renaissance...
by Sean Passmore | Nov 10, 2018 | Album of the Week
Once an integral part of New Zealand’s award winning noise rock/art punk quartet The Mint Chicks, lead singer Kody Nielson has come a long way from the chainsaw wielding corporate logo destroying stage antics of his past. Legendary for his death defying feats of...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 14, 2018 | Album of the Week
What immediately becomes most apparent when listening to The Voidz for the first time is the unmistakably familiar voice one hears from the outset, the voice that catapulted an unlikely mix of Manhattan prep school boys from their Swiss boarding school beginnings to...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 7, 2018 | Album of the Week
Fiftysomething trailblazer Kristin Hersh is perhaps best known for her work with Throwing Muses, the band she helped form in 1981 at the age of 14 while attending high school in Newport, Rhode Island. In the years since she has released over 20 albums and published...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 2, 2018 | Album of the Week
It’s a rite of passage in many suburban homes throughout North America and beyond, teens and tweens banding together in garages and basements across the nation setting up amplifiers, drum kits, microphones and guitars, plugging in and rocking out. Heck, there’s an...