Tegan and Sara w/Japanese Breakfast Thursday, July 27, 8pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 6101 University Avenue $49.50 The title of Soft Sounds from Another Planet, Michelle Zauner’s second album under the Japanese Breakfast moniker, suggests a supernatural focus that doesn’t entirely capture her decidedly worldly concerns. Aside from the iridescent lead single “Machinist,” which sees Zauner […]
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Review: David R. Elliott, Strawberry Grass
If a Jeff Tweedy-type fronted White Fence, you’d have a good opener for David R. Elliott. Controversial opinion: On Strawberry Grass, I also hear everything I like about Steve Miller Band. Fight me, I don’t care. The psych-rock Ty Segall-ish guitar on songs like “Due Time”, “Letter To My Son” and “I’m Not Him” (note: […]
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Review: Shadow of Everest, Idle Hands
For a contemporary progressive metal band—Halifax’s Shadow of Everest list Tool, Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stone Age as bands they’ve been compared to—this debut full length has a surprisingly classic sound. The guitar tone—especially on title track “Idle Hands” and “Holding On”—could fit right in with Maiden or Metallica. But the song structures prove […]
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Review: Wake Rider, Wake Rider
Indie pop mellow melody makers Wake Rider’s recently released its first eponymous full length EP, and the chillness is extremely real. The technical prowess of music students is evident here, but Eric Skinner’s icy, disaffected vocals coat it evenly, blending well with the songs, as some Diamond Dave-type (lol can you imagine) would push this […]
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Review: Vadell Gabriel – Timbits
In late July, Halifax’s Vadell Gabriel (Seth Glasgow) released 27 of his own instrumental tracks in a collection called Timbits. The title is a shout-out to the 2006 masterpiece Donuts, the final album by Detroit’s posthumous instrumental king, J. Dilla. On his third release in a year, Gabriel enacts the same new jack swing style […]