gramercy arms Archive

30 Dec 2014

Best of 2014: New Music, Part 2

best-of list, new release, pop, powerpop, psych

Yesterday I surveyed four of my favorite albums of new music from this year. There was modern psych/garage; raw Americana; punk; and classic guitar pop aka powerpop. Today I present the second half of my “top eight,” and – perhaps unsurprisingly – these four tread similar territory in musical genre-land. American Professionals – We Make

31 Oct 2014

Album Review: Gramercy Arms — The Seasons of Love

By Bill Kopp

new release, pop, rawk, review

As a rule, I make it a point to avoid reading reviews of an album before writing a review of my own. I don’t want my opinion formed by the undue influence of some other reviewer’s point of view. But I do like to do a bit of basic research – to get some background

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