15+ hour, 55+ min ago   (1640+ words) Spectrum Culture Back in 1990, it seemed like the Pixies were on the verge of a commercial breakthrough, but that never really happened. Instead, Bossanova offered a softer, glossier and more conventional take on the Pixies sound at just the point…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (588+ words) Nicola Miller’s Living Things: Spit! Spectrum Culture Miller, whose tone and phrasing blend the ragged slouch of Jackie McLean with the sharp, elegant tonal ambivalence of Ornette Coleman, appears to delight in the unpredictable and nonstandard, beginning with the makeup…...

2+ week, 15+ hour ago   (526+ words) Spectrum Culture When you hit play on EP opener “Barking at the Sun,” you’re greeted by White-Gluz’s angelic voice and a sludgy guitar. The guitar builds, sparkling and warbling before blast beats enter to drive the sonic soundscape forward. Yet,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1433+ words) Spectrum Culture The band took that money and used it to build Echo Canyon, their very own studio on Murray Street in Lower Manhattan. The first effort from that new venture would be their 10th album, A Thousand Leaves. Named after…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (914+ words) Spectrum Culture That being said, the SYR EPs are a coup, even by the standards of a band who smuggle 20-minute long feedback jams using the Trojan Horse of an alt-rock record (1995’s Washing Machine). There is no hybridity here,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (693+ words) Spectrum Culture Intimate Strangers, Scott’s eighth solo album and first for Columbia (followed by two more, Street Beat and Apple Juice), has been relegated to obscurity even by bargain-bin standards. Not available on streaming, it received a CD release only…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (665+ words) Spectrum Culture Big World follows the band’s overstuffed self-titled double album from 2024. While that effort rightly situated the group within the styles of kindred artists like Bon Iver and Alex G, swinging for the fences as they did traded the…...