Home recording is a genre in itself. The studio takes the canvas and you paint and it applies. The home recording is a more like a canvas that you get to paint yourself.

Patience in music is another way to ensure a life changing experience for the listener. “Folios” starts off the album with care you can feel. It gently crescendo’s with steadiness.

All attention is focused on her set, and it is blatantly obvious that those captivated can relate in some way or another to her melancholy chords strummed in a minor key. “The strange balance of beauty and sadness in life has always been really clear to me,” Chelsea explains.

The titles of the songs on He Never Goes Anywhere seem like little inside jokes, secret messages, distant memories. Nicks Myth seems less like a band name and more of a story. It’s an instrumental story. A story without words. This being said I cannot review it like an album.

15 years, 8 albums, and 2 EP’s since their debut The Sea and Cake have a created a bristly album you can wipe your maple syrup off with. As we look back on their career we can reminisce at their alumni songwriting that keeps putting the “thrill” in Thrill Jockey’s morning coffee.

Having previously written about them and being a big fan of them musically and as people, I was honored when Lisa and Phil Freedenberg gave me a copy of their upcoming debut full length to review.

In a nutshell, the album Body Maps is a journey through the hearts and minds of two…

Every now and then in my musical spelunking I stumble upon something by chance that is honestly mind-boggling. This happened last night, when I unwittingly uncovered Sadistician.

Photographer John Argetsinger and painter/singer Erica Sherman create well panned guitars, thoughtful drums, and some of the most sincere vocals while real people talk about real things. In the title track, Terminal Eclipse of the American Heart, a Hopi Indian speaks about America’s wavering condition.

Joyful Noise has released a sampler featuring artists like Bizzart, Grampall Jookabox, Ann Arbor’s Man at Arms, and more. It’s their way of ushering in 2009 with more weird and creative music. This label has been putting out some of the more interesting indie/prog/expermental rock as well as the noisy/experimental/wunderkind Bizzart!

Rooster’s Roadhouse tonight was packed. With a full lineup of metal bands from across the Bay Area, there was no doubt that tonight was going to be loud and heavy. Sarah Mccroskey, concert promoter and founder of Thizzle Sticks Productions, was constantly being thanked…