Can you hear the podcast from the Southside 05: don’t call it a comeback (or) comin’ down the revival road
What gives? Yeah, we decided to revive Can You Hear the Podcast From the Southside after all this time. It just seemed like the right thing to do to waste some of our time and yours. Eventually we’ll get around to having guests and such, but for now you’re stuck with us. Anyhow, we’re gonna (Read more…)
Review: Catfish Haven – Devastator
So it begins like this. I first heard of Catfish Haven when their Please Come Back EP came out back in 2006. Since then I’ve seen the band totally kill it live on a number of occasions. With their latest full-length offering Devastator, the band is back with another healthy dose of their unique brand (Read more…)
Review: Women – Women
Women is not the sort of band name that lends itself to easy Googling but the music on their self-titled debut album is the sort of lo-fi and shoegazey indie rock that’s both hazy and memorable and noisy and melodic. From damn near ambient to catchy Grizzly Bear-esqe harmonies, this is about as good as (Read more…)
Review: Retribution Gospel Choir – Retribution Gospel Choir
Okay, so this may or may not be interesting to you. Low is a band from Duluth, Minnesota that my friend Jacob (most-likely) got me listening to (well, aside from when my dad bought Secret Name and gave it to me after commenting that the music, “makes me want to kill mydelf [sic].” But Jacob (Read more…)
Review: Murder By Death – Red Of Tooth And Claw
I’ve always been intrigued by Murder By Death. The Bloomington, Indiana band has always been known as “that band with the cello player,” and though I’ve liked their previous efforts, something about Red Of Tooth And Claw speaks to me. It is an album full of darkness and tension but also gothic elegance. In fact, (Read more…)
Review: LaSalle – Pretty World
Lansing, Michigan’s LaSalle is back with their second full-length Pretty World and finds the band (again) hopping between a visceral attack a la Small Brown Bike/Casket Lottery that thunders along with atmospheric and electronic flourishes and more melodic full-on driving indie rock. The vocals of husband/wife team Mike (ex-Small Brown Bike) and Katy Reed compliment (Read more…)
It came from the nineties (Vol. 42)
I hope that everyone had a happy Halloween. I didn’t partake in any costumed festivities this year, but did get to see my daughter (now three years old) go door-to-door for her first “real” Halloween trick-or-treat and it was a blast. So with this volume of 1990’s hits and near-hits, I give you Matthew Sweet’s (Read more…)
Review: Sera Cahoone – Only As The Day Is Long
So who is Sera Cahoone? Well, she played drums in Carissa’s Wierd and on the first Band of Horses album for starters and her latest album Only As The Day Is Long a gem of an indie country record. Her vocals are sultry yet relaxed and slow burning but gentle. The airy arrangements have a (Read more…)
Review: Drunken Boat – Drunken Boat
I like drinking and I like boats. So if my logic is correct I should like the Portland band Drunken Boat, right? Yeah. I like ‘em. You might like their self-titled album if you are a fan of bands like Cleveland Bound Death Sentence, Banner Pilot, and/or Mariah Carey. Just kidding about the whole Mariah (Read more…)
