Oct 31, 2011

I trekked up to Marietta last Saturday to check out a metal-core band made up of high school kids called Leigh Ann’s Incisions at a little Marietta venue called Swayze’s. Admittedly, I was out of my comfort zone in a few ways. For one, I don’t often journey out of Atlanta to hear music, not because there isn’t good music to be heard in...

Oct 24, 2011

Album: The Harrow and the Harvest Artist: Gillian Welch Year: 2011   Gillian Welch is one of those artists who I always like but only occasionally love.  With an eight year gap between albums, fans and critics alike had to wonder which Gillian Welch The Harrow and the Harvest would present.  Would it be the Gillian Welch of 2003′s rather...

Oct 21, 2011

Album: Dropped Pianos Artist: Tim Hecker Year: 2011   When an electronic composer is bad, it is very very bad, but when it’s good, it can create something really wonderful, something that music with lyrics just can’t touch.  This was my reaction to the new Tim Hecker album of sketches, aptly titled Dropped Pianos. Electronic composer Tim Hecker...

Oct 20, 2011

Album: Love and Rockets, Volume 1 Artist: Murs Year: 2011   I’ll admit it.  I had heard of Murs of a long time ago, but wrote him off as the type of aggressive, chauvinistic hip hop that I don’t generally care for.  When Love and Rockets, Volume 1 came out last week and I read some of the hype about the artist’s collaboration with...