Few records released this year will make listeners ache or, perhaps, take comfort in their aching quite like Space Between, the Lesser Birds of…

Though he’s been a constant presence and distinct voice in the Rachel’s since the days before the Louisville-bred ensemble’s wondrous Quarterstick debut, Jason Noble…

William S. Burroughs might be pleased to know that, nearly a decade after his death, Lawrence, Kansas still permeates an air of cool, having…

There’s the long-winded, biographical sermons in hardcover and the big-screen, conspiracy-theory docu-dramas. There’s the name-dropping and tribute-conscious lesser knowns and, on the other end…

A musician friend of mine who shall remain unnamed told me there was a moment on Pigs of the Roman Empire, the latest full-length…

One walking through the streets of New Jersey would not necessarily imagine Tris McCall’s brand of synth-driven, dance floor-conscious indie rock as a likely…

It’s been four long years since the last Shipping News record proper — the brilliant Very Soon and in Pleasant Company — but from…

There’s something downright unnerving about Dean Roberts’ Be Mine Tonight, a four-song, 35-minute glacier of an album. It’s not unnerving because it’s abrasive or…

There seems to a growing trend in indie rock where bands, tired of the noise emanating from their garages or basements, begin to make…

The latest full-length musical exploration from the New Jersey/New York ensemble Ui is called Answers. For those who won’t hear the disc until Southern…