STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Anna Calvi, The Smile Dario – Flower Festival and M. Ward reissues Kimber – William Elliott Whitmore Jake – The Smile Zach – Flower Festival, MIKE, Ty Segall, and The Smile SMILE – Wall Of Eyes CD/LP (XL) The Smile is Radiohead’s Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood + Sons of Kemet’s […]

STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Colter Wall reissues Dario – Mary Halvorson Kimber – Swervedriver reissue Jake –  Spiritualized and Mid-Air Thief Zach – Daniel Johnston, 90 Day Men, Mid-Air Thief Danny Brown – Quaranta CD/LP+MP3 (Warp) As the intro notes, Quaranta is Italian for “forty.” According to Brown, Quaranta is the spiritual sequel to XXX, […]

STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Marika Hackman Dario – X-Ray Spex and Sampha Kimber – Lush reissues Jake – Dinosaur Jr reissue Zach – Sampha VACCINES – Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations CD/LP  (Super Easy) Torchbearers for British guitar music, The Vaccines are back with their sixth studio album Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations. The title […]

STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Danielle Ponder Dario – Sound Dimension Kimber – Velvet Underground reissue Zach – Denzel Curry reissue Jake – Velvet Underground reissue VELVET UNDERGROUND – Max’s Kansas City LP [Reissue/1972] (Rhino) Limited orchid and magenta pressing. 2LP expanded edition of the legendary final concerts with Lou Reed recorded in 1970.      […]