Those who fell in love with Peter, Bjorn & John because of their incredibly poppy (and breakthrough, considering the amount of play that they got) Writer’s Block album will likely be a bit confused by their newest effort Living Thing. That’s not to say that there aren’t catchy songs here (because there are in spades), [...]

Over the course of the past two weeks or so, I’ve been covered in a thin layer of dust most nights and for a week even went without a shower or tub of any sort. Yes, it was time for a remodel on the main bathroom in our house, and while I tried to keep [...]

As a fellow who releases music at a rather dizzying pace, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with one Aaron Funk. For the past half-decade or so, he’s been putting out nearly two full albums worth of material each year as Venetian Snares while managing to stay fairly consistent along the way. He always [...]

Like many bands that I now love, I was a late comer to Faust. My introduction to their music was the incredibly-varied IV, which was alternately noisy, grooving, and even downright funny at times, and I eventually went ahead and got their excellent The Wumme Years boxset when that came out. After a short, but [...]