Author: mike

Antlered Aunt Lord at Maximum Rock and Roll

Antlered Aunt Lord play charming indie pop. it is quirky and breezy, reminding me of early Neutral Milk Hotel. Athens, GA musician Jesse Stinnard is the force behind this LP. According to the liner notes, he apparently “tricked” his friends into being recorded for it. It has that bedroom recording quality: lo-fi and sincere. It… Continue reading Antlered Aunt Lord at Maximum Rock and Roll

Witching Waves at Gold Flake Paint

Continually one of the brightest sparks in the whole UK sludgy, guitar-slinging, DIY scene, Witching Waves follow up their brilliant ‘Fear Of Falling Down‘ LP with a sparkling new full-length effort next month, once again released via Soft Power (and Happy Happy Birthday To Me in the U.S) and one hopes that Crystal Cafe might be the… Continue reading Witching Waves at Gold Flake Paint

Great Lakes at The Big Takeover

Great Lakes formed in 1996 in Athens, Georgia, initially aligned with that city’s Elephant 6 collective, but has been based in Brooklyn since 2002. The band’s fifth album, Wild Vision, comes this Friday on the band’s own label, Loose Trucks. For this new album, founding singer-songwriter-guitarist Ben Crum reconvened the same lineup of musicians who… Continue reading Great Lakes at The Big Takeover

Great Lakes at The Vinyl District

Having emerged in Athens, GA roughly two decades ago, Great Lakes’ formative period was the byproduct of three individuals and a load of Southeastern psych-pop support. However, since 2008 the outfit’s increasingly mature country and folk inflected shots have been called from the home base of Brooklyn by founding singer-songwriter-guitarist Ben Crum. Now after a… Continue reading Great Lakes at The Vinyl District

Witching Waves at Eardrums Music

HHBTM Records (US) and Soft Power Records (UK/Europe) will release the new album from London-trio Witching Waves, “Crystal Cafe”, on February 26. The album comes out on both LP, Cassette and Digital Download, and judging from the track they have shared with us, “Twister”, this will be something to look forward to. In the press release, they are called a… Continue reading Witching Waves at Eardrums Music

Great Lakes at Here Comes the Flood

Brooklyn based folk band Great Lakes have a new LP, Wild Vision. HCTF is premiering Wild Again, one of the tracks form the new album. Main man Ben Crum provided a little background: “Wild Again” is a song about longing for a life more connected to the natural world, but settling for some form of… Continue reading Great Lakes at Here Comes the Flood

Antlered Aunt Lord at Fear and Loathing

Video in motion, prisoners of our own electronic devices, the dull thud of a door closing, and the nervous shudder of one opening create unusual monsters in our imagination. There’s nothing more beautiful than a twenty-four hour establishment, reliable availability is so hard to find in an age of face-time dating and inconsistent suspicion. You… Continue reading Antlered Aunt Lord at Fear and Loathing