singer-songwriter

  • 2015

    Former Bomb the Music Industry! frontman Jeff Rosenstock releases an explosive and smart solo effort, pulling from pop punk and existential crises for inspiration.

  • J. Tillman, aka Father John Misty, comes through with a grand, funny, and gorgeous sophomore release under this recently embraced pseudonym of his.

  • acoustic

    “Mark, you’re the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem … Of all the Mark Kozeleks in the world, you’re the Mark Kozelekiest.” There’s no topping that for now. Happy holidays, y’all! Thanks for a great

  • Fans of the London-based producer will have new material to tide them over until the rumored release of his next full-length, expected to drop sometime in 2015. The 200 Press EP consists of four tracks that might seem strange on their own, but come across as united in their oddity.

  • Singer-songwriter J. Tillman, a.k.a. Father John Misty, just dropped a simple, kaleidoscopic video for the song “Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins),” which is one of the many tracks that will be featured on his upcoming album, I Love You, Honeybear. It’s currently looking at

  • fool

    The previously loved Perfume Genius tags some visuals onto the Too Bright cut “Fool,” which had me curious considering the track features a completely unexpected ambient pop-style interlude right in the middle of its run-time. How exactly would this musical transition be handled? Well, with violet curtains, a feather boa,

  • 2014

    Burial Hex, the well established pseudonym of experimental singer-songwriter Clay Ruby, comes to a graceful end with The Hierophant, a marvelous work that fuses elements of darkwave, death industrial, and modern classical music. Stream the title track above and get the album now via Handmade Birds.

  • 2014

    Burial Hex, the well established pseudonym of experimental singer-songwriter Clay Ruby, comes to a graceful end with The Hierophant, a marvelous work that fuses elements of darkwave, death industrial, and modern classical music. Stream the title track above and get the album now via Handmade Birds.

  • folk

    Stream: Sun Kil Moon – “The Possum” After all that War On Drugs business, it’s nice to hear Mark Kozelek taking SKM back into less controversial territory with this new single titled “The Possum.” It’s a nine-minute cut that, like much of the material on Benji, focuses on life’

  • Elvis Depressedly is a musical trio fronted by moody minstrel Mat Cothran. A few years ago I was praising his melancholy compositions via a different pseudonym: Coma Cinema. The transition from one name to another has been far from night and day. Cothran’s songwriting and recording style has remained