Ghosteen by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will break your heart. The instrumentation and supporting vocals are minimal, repetitive, ambient, hymnal—a backdrop on a stage with lights that flow with ceremonious cadence from …

There’s something delightfully refreshing about the way Hammer makes music. It feels physical and alive. Glittering in cavernous space, emitting vibrations which echo off the walls and stack up to a larger-than-life sound. But it’s also …

Harpist Mary Lattimore slipped a new single into the ether this September via her Bandcamp page, and she thought we wouldn’t notice. ‘Quintana’ is a fifteen-minute amble through a grassy seaside mountain—windblown, haunting …

There is this unspoken idea that art has to be about darkness or suffering to evoke something of an audience. “Happiness paints with white,” to quote a professor from my undergraduate years who most definitely was quoting …

I had never heard of David Berman or the Silver Jews until Swedish folk sister duo First Aid Kit released ‘Strange Beauty’ and their cover of ‘Random Rules.’ But swimming in the rawness of their terror at Berman’s sudden passing …

A Poem in Three Parts …

Oh, take me to the jungles of my imagination. Barefoot, we’ll hop-scotch around the dangers of the forest floor as a brazen fire threatening the canopy above. Magnificently profound. Unquestionably deadly. An oxymoron? More like …

Over the years, Bon Iver has carved out of the Indie Pop genre a space for what I call Highly Attractive Music. I find their body of work so soul-wrenchingly addictive that I can’t say anything bad about it. I listen to it with a …