Sonic Reducer: Jewel • Fresh Snow • The Expanding Flower Planet Jewel finds space on the front cover of her new country album to share this philosophical bombshell: “what we call reality in actuality [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Aug 27, 2015 Read More
Aural Fixation: Silver Globe Delivers Another World Hey you, reading the music section. Do you feel despondent or disenchanted with music or the music industry?Face it: after listening to the [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Aug 20, 2015 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Regicide, Breadfoot And Drinks Proudly New Mexican, Regicide is but one band in the state’s massive metal scene. Without pretension and with refreshingly straightforward vocals (no dog-voice), [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Aug 20, 2015 Read More
Sonic Reducer: The Woolen Men, Totally Mild And Sage Mckay This is good stuff. For a minute the only comparison I could come up with was Eddy Current Suppression Ring … however, despite [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Aug 13, 2015 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Monk Parker, Kid Cadaver And Ducktails The display of raw emotion has proven a utilitarian and inevitably salable quality in a variety of musical genres. Original emocore bands like [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Aug 06, 2015 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Eileen & The In-Betweens, Teen Daze And Royal Fins Sonic Reducer: Eileen & The In-Betweens, Teen Daze And Royal Fins Everything is alive is the second album from local folk musician Eileen Shaugnessy and her band The In-Betweens. Their first recording, You Know, [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Jul 30, 2015 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Rasputina, The Plurals And Bedrockk Whenever Rasputina is mentioned, I think of Sister’s Doug Albin and the earnest, dirty old man-boy in him looking forward to an upcoming [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Jul 16, 2015 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Merican Slang, The Lymbs And Veruca Salt Merican Slang sent Alibi one of their limited edition, miniature cassette shaped mp3 players with a copy of their new album Livin’ in [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Jul 09, 2015 Read More
Sonic Reducer: The Acorn, Mail The Horse And Expert Alterations The Acorn is a minimalist electro-folk project headed by one Rolf Klausener of Ottowa, Ontario. The band combines most of the usual instruments [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Jun 25, 2015 Read More
Sonic Reducer: You, The Beaumonts And Entourage Jazz Albuquerque’s own YOU released this limited-edition CD in April, though it isn’t clear what it’s limited to, and I guess the download will [...] Geoffrey Plant \ Jun 18, 2015 Read More