new release Archive
14 Jun 2018
Josh Rouse is Totally ’80s (For Now) — Part 1
One never quite knows what to expect from Josh Rouse. The nomadic, Nebraska-born singer-songwriter’s first few albums introduced a musician whose contemplative, sometimes moody songs compared favorably to work by […]
09 Jun 2018
Album Review: Disaster Relief — s/t
Nominally classified as jazz, the Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Disaster Relief occupies a musical space halfway between Leeds and New Orleans. The Leeds connection is the band’s funky like-mindedness […]
09 Jun 2018
EP Review: Cordova – Runaway Summer
The heavy chunka-chunka guitars and scream that kick off “Hiding” tip off the listener that Runaway Summer is going to be a growling, black metal extravaganza. But the tricky meter […]
08 Jun 2018
Album Review: Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America’s Forgotten War
Readers old enough to remember the long-running and beloved television sitcom M*A*S*H likely know that according to its creators, even though the show was set in wartime Korea, it was […]
06 Jun 2018
Brie Capone Lets Us In
Singer-songwriter Brie Capone first moved to Asheville when she was a teenager, but her musical journey would eventually take her far afield. Capone studied at Berklee College of Music in […]
04 Jun 2018
Chuck Brodsky’s One of Us
With the exception of a trio of records he released in the final years of the 20th century, Chuck Brodsky has long been the model of the independent, do-it-yourself artist. […]
02 Jun 2018
Album Review: In the Light of Led Zeppelin — Pompeii Sessions
Musical tributes are a dodgy proposition. At their worst, they betray the performer’s lack of originality. But at their best — a rare occurrence indeed — they do what all […]
02 Jun 2018
Album Review: Wulijimuren — Sun of UTC+8
Music truly is the universal language. A good example of this axiom is Sun of UTC+8, the new album from Mongolian-born guitarist Wulijimuren. There’s not much explicitly Eastern in the […]
01 Jun 2018
EP Review: Ghostdog — A Circle of Stones
Yearning, melancholy midtempo rock with a dreamy feel is merely one of the stocks-in-trade of Asheville-based Ghostdog. But it’s worth noting that the group playfully describes its music as “Wussy-boy […]
31 May 2018
Natural Born Leaders: Their ‘Time’ Has Come
One of 2018’s most eagerly-anticipated Asheville, NC-related releases is the debut album from Natural Born Leaders. Even in an era of countless cross-genre mashups and hybrids, the music of Natural […]