by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Mar 21, 2023 | Industry News/Analysis
Last week the Cure made the bombshell announcement that they would tour North America for the first time since 2016. This obviously brought elation to fans all over the continent, especially in places that the Cure hadn’t visited in two decades. However, that...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Mar 17, 2023 | Album Reviews
There seems to be a misconception that intimacy is the realm of quietness. Intimate music is played by a single person with an acoustic guitar or maybe a piano mic’d so close that you can hear the sound of their mouth opening before they sing their closest...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Mar 15, 2023 | Reviews
Few acts in the last few years have managed to offer such powerful and gorgeous music as New York trio Spotlights. With three powerful albums already in their catalog, expectations are high for their fourth full-length, Alchemy For the Dead, coming April 28th. And if...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Mar 10, 2023 | Album Reviews
The lo-fi aesthetic isn’t as unavoidable as it used to be. Fizzling atmospheres and tape glitches used to be the unavoidable artifacts of the auteur who couldn’t afford to buy a nice recording machine or rent studio time. But ever since Apple decided to...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Mar 10, 2023 | Single Reviews
North Shore, Massachusetts emotive power pop outfit Cape Crush have set high expectations for their upcoming album with the release of the title track “San Souci,” a kiss off track so bouncy and catchy that you might not realize how acidic it is without...