As I mentioned in the previous post, a dear friend’s birthday was this past week, and we actually began talking on Twitter over our mutual love of the band Spoon. So in honor of her […]
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Author: William Ruben Helms
I'm a music blogger, critic and photographer, who has had articles and photos published in Premier Guitar Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Press, New York Magazine's Vulture Blog, Ins&Outs Magazine, The Noise Beneath the Apple, Glide Magazine, The Whiskey Dregs Magazine and others.
This week was a very dear friend’s birthday and interestingly enough, we really began talking over our mutual love of Spoon on Twitter. While she’s still celebrating, I wanted to post Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah” from […]
New York-based band Triple Hex have developed a reputation for writing songs that have a gritty, sleazy feel – like listening to their latest single “Winter” reminds me of the great dive bars I used […]
Pony Trash is a new shoegaze/psychedelica act that features members of the Chambermaids, Gospel Gossip and Polica, a sort of up-and-coming indie rock All Star band. Written and recorded at Neil Weir’s legendary Old Blackberry […]
The Portland, Oregon-based Wooden Indian Burial Ground has publicly claimed their influences to be early sci-fi novels. fuzzy 60s garage rock, fuzz boxes and homemade drone boxes. “Sparklerella,” is the first single off their self-titled […]
Born and raised in New Zealand and now based in New Yorker, singer/songwriter Simon Spire’s work has been critically praised by PopMatters, Performer Magazine, MTV.com, mtvU and across the blogosphere. His latest album, Four-Letter Words has been critically applauded […]
The Confluence EP may be an apt name for maticulous’s latest EP recently released by Fat Beats Records. You see, the Brooklyn-based producer is originally from Pittsburgh, PA – and if you know your geography, you […]
Kinder Machines is the third full-length album from Beaten By Them, a band who has members residing in San Francisco, NYC, and Melbourne, Australia. Formed in 2005, the band has quietly developed a reputation for creating […]
Cody ChesnuTT will be releasing his first full-length effort in about ten years with Landing On a Hundred on October 30th. NPR’s All Songs Considered recently premiered the first single from ChesnuTT’s new album, the soulful hymn […]
Album Review: BNLX’s BNLX #7 EP
BNLX BNLX #7 Susstones Records Release Date: August 28, 2012 Track Listing See What I See Meet Me on the Barricades Round the Dial Video Games See What I See (clean) Personnel “Organic Members” Ed […]
