Holy crap, John Dwyer has made twenty albums in a little over ten years under Thee Oh Sees’ umbrella?! Like his buddy Ty Segall, Dwyer is so ridiculously prolific that it’s too easy to take Thee Oh Sees for granted. So let’s check in on what this garage/psych-rock icon has put out recently, shall we? […]
New releases begin to slow down this time of year, so Sound It Out is cleaning up around the office and making sure we don’t forget anything before our end-of-year “Best Of” list. We start with three exciting EPs. Deradoorian – Eternal Recurrence In just two releases, Angel Deradoorian travels further and further away […]
If you’ve read this far, chances are you already know who Angel Olsen is: the belle of the ball at the indie roots-rock hootenanny. What you really need to know: is her new collection of b-sides and rare cuts truly necessary? Well, yes! For one reason, Phases sees the return of the excellent band she […]
I still remember exactly where I was when I first heard Aaliyah: stuck in gridlock on the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley, flipping through Los Angeles radio stations in my car. Abruptly, spacious, skittering beats thumped forth from the speakers and materialized an alternate reality, one inhabited by… crickets? Then a hushed voice […]
Sometimes, you just have to clear the party and throw your friends the fuck out of the room. Sometimes you have to work yourself up into an agitated state in order to tell your boss to go fuck himself, to relapse, or to betray a loved one. These inexplicable acts of anti-socialness aren’t things that […]
Incognito at the country fair, a surreptitious romance is revealed to its participants in the new video from the Weather Station, the folk-rock persona of Tamara Lindeman. Intimate yet not hushed, emotive but not extroverted, “You And I (On The Other Side Of The World” is the third single from the Weather Station’s self-titled collection, […]
AHHOOOOWEEEE! An earth-shaking blast from the past lands in the form of a compilation of early material by the Flat Duo Jets. Many first discovered the twosome in the 1987 music documentary “Athens, GA: Inside/Out,” where their guitar-and-drums rockabilly pretty much stole the show from R.E.M. and their local comrades… and the Jets weren’t even […]
Maybe it was all the pot I smoked back then, but Southern California in the mid-1990s sure seems idyllic in retrospect. Rent was still fairly cheap, and the biggest bother for music fans was wading through the glut of major-label product in the wake of Nirvana. This was the setting in which most of us […]
The days are getting shorter, the leaves are falling, the amplifiers are cranking to 11… It’s ROCKTOBER, everybody! To commemorate this merry month of rock, here’s a round-up of excellent new metal releases. Elder – Reflections Of A Floating World Elder formed a decade ago to create heavy metal music themed specifically to the legend […]
Here, then, is how Protomartyr makes utterly unique music today from a guitar-bass-drum format. A crazed, mechanical rhythm beats out like a possessed 3-D printer, ushering in tense, disquieting chords. The distinctive vocals of Joe Casey — not so much a singer as mutterer, ranter, unwilling prophet — make reference to Greek philosopher Heraclitus and […]