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Spirit of the Beehive Balance Experimentation and Songcraft

Spirit of the Beehive Balance Experimentation and Songcraft

Spirit of the Beehive offer their most rangy yet integrated album, each track striking a notable balance between sonic exploration and hook-leaning songcraft.

Black Belt Eagle Scout Hones Her Message and Perfects Her Sound

Black Belt Eagle Scout Hones Her Message and Perfects Her Sound

With her third album, Black Belt Eagle Scout dazzles us with lush atmospheres, seismic rhythms, and a voice that unfurls from another and perhaps a better world.

Black Belt Eagle Scout Draws Us Deeper Into Her Life with ‘At the Party With My Brown Friends’

Black Belt Eagle Scout Draws Us Deeper Into Her Life with ‘At the Party With My Brown Friends’

Black Belt Eagle Scout’s sincere songwriting makes for an exquisite, intensely personal sophomore album in At the Party With My Brown Friends.

Stef Chura’s ‘Midnight’ Is a Scorching, Emotive Indie Rock Masterstroke

Stef Chura’s ‘Midnight’ Is a Scorching, Emotive Indie Rock Masterstroke

Midnight fulfills Stef Chura's promise. Broad in scope, its 12 songs cover a range of moods, tones, and energies.

Open to Interpretation: The Knotty Songs of Hop Along

Open to Interpretation: The Knotty Songs of Hop Along

Frances Quinlan has spent nearly half her life in Hop Along and now, performing songs she wrote years prior, she questions identity and how music evolves.

Hand Habits’ ​’placeholder’​ Is Nothing of the Sort

Hand Habits’ ​’placeholder’​ Is Nothing of the Sort

Meg Duffy's second Hand Habits album offers some of the most insightful commentary you are likely to hear on the tumults and vicissitudes of the human heart.

Your Tape Is Our Tape: Mike Mogis Looks Back on Bright Eyes

Your Tape Is Our Tape: Mike Mogis Looks Back on Bright Eyes

The saga told across The Studio Albums: 2000-2011 isn't just the story of Conor Oberst's evolution as a songwriter. It's also the story of Mike Mogis's evolution as a producer.
Who Cleans Up When the Party’s Over? An Interview with the Good Life

Who Cleans Up When the Party’s Over? An Interview with the Good Life

Eight years since their last effort, Tim Kasher of Cursive and Ryan Fox shake that "other band" tag by making their best, weirdest disc yet.
Cursive: The Ugly Organ (Reissue)

Cursive: The Ugly Organ (Reissue)

Cursive's much-loved rage cannon of a record has been remastered, allowing one to hear every mangled guitar chord, every abused organ note, every polyp in Kasher's throat. It's makes a legendarily bilious album even more so, like watching surgery in HD.

Jakes Bellows: New Ocean

Cursive: I Am Gemini

Cursive’s Tim Kasher Keeps Maturing in Public on His Solo Effort