James’ Top Albums of 2016
2016 hit ya in the gut. So many groundbreaking artists, musicians and actors alike, that so many generations have grown up listening to and…
2016 hit ya in the gut. So many groundbreaking artists, musicians and actors alike, that so many generations have grown up listening to and…
John Davis isn’t going anywhere. Debuting in 1998, Davis and his DC dance-punk trio Q And Not U explored the spastic, synthy, sweaty sound…
It’s hard to even fathom what American Football has accomplished with their second, self-titled new album. Seventeen years ago the band released American Football…
Somewhere at a private table in a swank nightclub in Stockholm, a cadre of beautifully Swedish leftists debate the Nordic Model and Swedish socialist…
Throughout Heart Like a Levee, the latest record from criminally under-the-radar Hiss Golden Messenger, frontman M.C. Taylor fights with himself. As a working musicians…
The death of a parent. A “rite of passage” as described by Touché Amoré frontman Jeremy Bolm on “Posing Holy,” off the band’s new…
Angel Olsen has repeatedly said, in interviews and official press release, that she doesn’t want My Woman to read like a feminist manifesto, all…
Over the course of seventeen years, The Album Leaf has evolved from the introspective, studio-based explorations of former Tristeza and The Locust member Jimmy…
Russian Circles enter their second decade fully confident in what it is they do. Guidance shows a band “at the top of their game”…