Currently based in Portland, OR, the indie rock trio Other Lives have received national attention and praise for a lush, orchestrated sound that channels Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The National and Ocean Rain-era Echo and the Bunnymen but with the sort of […]
Tag: High Violet
When the National released High Violet a few years back, it was an album that spoke very deeply to me about the compromises, decisions and dashed hopes of being an adult. Of course, to be fair, i’m […]
While in France, singer/songwriter Jay Chakravorty met a Mexican woman who used to playfully call him Cajita, which translates into English as “little box,” thanks to the fact that she claimed that every time she […]
While in France, singer/songwriter Jay Chakravorty met a Mexican woman who used to playfully call him Cajita, which translates into English as “little box,” thanks to the fact that she claimed that every time she […]
Trouble Will Find Me, the sixth and latest full-length effort from Brooklyn based quintet the National was released back in May to critical praise among major publications and the blogosphere, and to commercial success, as […]
I had reviewed the National’s last album, High Violet for the Whiskey Dregs Magazine, and as I noted at the time, it was an album that resonated very deeply with me – it spoke of adult concerns, […]