Based on voting by members of IHRTN Facebook page and Damaged Goods group 1st place - Swans - To Be Kind / Young Widows - Easy Pain (7 votes for both) 2nd place - Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit (6 votes) 3rd place - Scott Walker / Sunn O))) - Soused (5 votes) Most controversial album award - Shellac - Dude Incredible (3…
File under: ambient/experimental UR is a Mexico-based publishing house/record label that have about 50 releases under its belt- mostly tapes, but also LPs and CDrs as well as some print material. The reason for IHRTN pick - quality control. A casual listen of the first two releases on URs Bandcamp page shows that the label takes…
Oftentimes, the Press Release that arrives accompanying a new release can contain enough hyperbole and overwrought allusion as to make a reviewer want to gouge out her/ his eyes with a hot spoon. Then there are times when one arrives with exactly the right summary. Accompanying this beguiling collection of soundscapes comes this description of the CD…
20 Years into a career that continues to be the musical equivalent of wandering through Willy Wonka's factory, Deerhoof return after 2012's "Breakup Songs" with their new 10-song collection "La Isla Bonita". Long-term fans need not fear the title indicating a newly-discovered passion for early(ish) Madonna material, it's the same old vibrantly eclectic mix of…
Rating: 3/5 There's nothing wrong with wearing your influences on the sleeve. Judging by "In Empty Spaces", a single off of their debut album "The Luminous Heart of Nowhere", Pink Avalanche do so proudly - echoes of Unwound, Husker Du, Arcwelder and countless other indie heroes abound in their music. It doesn't hurt that the…
Today, we're going to take a trip through two different corners of Boston - Somerville and Cambridge and take a look at two music incubators spawned by both. Somerville serves as headquarters for Muziclab - part social network for musicians/fans, part music event organizer. Its a brainchild of Virginia natives John and Pete Dorrell…
