Wonderful World In There Somewhere
Mark Allen-Piccolo Word of the Day BotCave Records, 2020 Review By Kent Manthie This second album by Mark-Allen Piccolo, […]
Happy Days Are Here (again)
Pure Protein Winner Goes Home Self-Released, 2020 Review by Kent Manthie Pure Protein, a Los Angeles-based band, has a brand-new debut EP that hits the streets May, 8, 2020. L.A.’s a long way from Home […]
New Rone Video: “Nouveau Monde”
Hi everyone. Hope you all dig this new video. It’s not just the newest video from indie spellbinder Rone, but it’s also a short film by famed French filmmaker Jérôme Clément-Wilz, during the Jacmel Carnival in Haiti. Jacmel is a port town on the south coast of Haiti. For more information about this fascinating annual […]
Ethereal Mind Meld
The Soft Plastics 5 Dreams Paper Bag Records, 2020 Review by Kent Manthie Frog Eyes, the British Columbia-based indie art-rock favorite of critics and their own cult, which broke up in 2018 seems to be back in some form; frontman, Carey Mercer, just after the breakup, did make an elliptical comment to another blog writer, […]
Pop-Up, Psych-Out
Blonder Crystal Ball EP Cool World Records, 2020 Review by Kent Manthie This new EP, Crystal Ball, by Blonder (Constantine Anastasakis) is the third album by this one-man band. Crystal Ball finds Constantine starting […]
FUN FUN FUN
of Montreal UR FUN Polyvinyl Records, 2020 Review by Kent Manthie So, yeah, I just had to write the review, below, for of Montreal’s 2018 White Relic/Irrealis Mood because it was just so […]
DETROIT PEOPLE MOVER
Squarepusher’s “Detroit People Mover” video is an apt pic for the near emptiness of parts of American cities. Here is a look at it… ENJOY!! –KM.
Outer Space Dance-Club Party
of Montreal White Relic/Irrealis Mood Polyvinyl Records, 2018 Review by Kent Manthie There’s something about the 2018 release by of Montreal, White Relic/Irrealis Mood that is just irresistible – somehow, with so […]
Mardi GRAND
Slow Pulp Big Day EP Winspear Records, 2019 Review by Kent Manthie Hailing from Madison, WI, Slow Pulp’s core is three long-time close friends, Alex Leeds, Henry Stoehr and Teddy Matthews. The three go […]
Lush Life
Papertwin Family Portrait Druyan Records, 2019 Review by Kent Manthie Papertwin is made up of three friends from Brooklyn; Max Decker (vocals, guitar, synthesizers), Francis Cardinale (drums, programming) and Nick Shopa (synthesizers, vocals). Their latest […]
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