by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Mar 8, 2023 | Lists!
Few instrumentalists are more overlooked than bassists. Their low range often relegates them to near-subliminal contributions to songs. Its limited number of strings has led to the ubiquitous assumption that it’s easy to play. Legions of bassists have started...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Mar 7, 2023 | Album Reviews
It’s hard to say exactly how “Carvers, Farriers, and Knaves” opens BIG BRAVE’s new album. Drums pound and feedback spikes out of overdriven amps while Robin Wattie pushes her voice near the top of her range, but the noise takes a break between...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Feb 24, 2023 | Single Reviews
Few records have impacted me like the sole full-length of Isis/Deftones supergroup Palms. The glistening waves of synth and modulated guitar and Chino Moreno’s gorgeous vocal performance against warlike drums and thick explosions of distortion expanded my...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Feb 23, 2023 | Reviews
When I was a sophomore in high school, I suddenly had the existence of Radiohead thrust upon me in the space of a week. My friend Mitchell brought “Idioteque” in to one of our music classes for analysis. I was already enraptured, when a day or two later, I...
by Nathaniel Fitzgerald | Feb 22, 2023 | Reviews
It was an unseasonably warm February day in 2005. I was a senior in high school, and my long-distance girlfriend had just made the three-hour trip between our homes for the first time. After a day of giddy, aimless drives and watching Napoleon Dynamite for probably...
