16+ hour, 18+ min ago   (1640+ words) Spectrum Culture Back in 1990, it seemed like the Pixies were on the verge of a commercial breakthrough, but that never really happened. Instead, Bossanova offered a softer, glossier and more conventional take on the Pixies sound at just the point…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (656+ words) Konstantin N. Rega graduated from East Anglia's Creative Writing MA with the Ink, Sweat and Tears Scholarship. Twice a Dan Veach Young Poet's Prize finalist, he's been published by Poetry Salzburg Review, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Entropy, amongst others, and is a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (225+ words) None of the songs on the new album are particularly unconventional, so it is puzzling to learn that the original objection from the film producers was that James and Reitzell were straying too far from what was expected. Perhaps unintentionally,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1085+ words) Spectrum Culture For their second release, the band signed with Southern Records, home to fellow travelers like 90 Day Men, Dianogah and Karate. Southern closed its Chicago office in the late ‘00s, leaving many of its bands without a streaming presence or…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (608+ words) Spectrum Culture snag. have always been a band looking to take physical action as well as words. Their self-titled 2017 debut included envelopes of seeds, with a written message to fans to use them to plant new habitats for pollinators. Physical…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (526+ words) Spectrum Culture When you hit play on EP opener “Barking at the Sun,” you’re greeted by White-Gluz’s angelic voice and a sludgy guitar. The guitar builds, sparkling and warbling before blast beats enter to drive the sonic soundscape forward. Yet,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1433+ words) Spectrum Culture The band took that money and used it to build Echo Canyon, their very own studio on Murray Street in Lower Manhattan. The first effort from that new venture would be their 10th album, A Thousand Leaves. Named after…...

4+ week, 8+ hour ago   (574+ words) Spectrum Culture McKenzie Iazzetta, the main composer for Trophy Wife, has a voice that warbles and screams in a similar fashion to Karly Hartzman, but her own brand of confessional lyrics skews much closer to the frank discussions of bad…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (977+ words) Spectrum Culture Like better known Scottish groups of the 1960s such as the Poets and the Marmalade, Writing on the Wall started out as an R&B/soul band. The Jury, formed in Edinburgh in 1966, consisted of Bill Scott (keyboards), Jake…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (914+ words) Spectrum Culture That being said, the SYR EPs are a coup, even by the standards of a band who smuggle 20-minute long feedback jams using the Trojan Horse of an alt-rock record (1995’s Washing Machine). There is no hybridity here,…...