December 2, 2024
Even though 2024 ended on a major downer, there was still some great music:
| Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs Alkaline Trio are back in a strong way with Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs. Read more… |
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| ASHRR – Sunshine Low ASHRR were take further the urban, summery, nocturnal concept of Sunshine Low. Read more… |
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| Blue Material – Reasonings In a way, Blue Material is a band of spiritual indie niche. Read more… |
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| Boeckner – Boeckner! Twenty-first century alternative music fans already know Dan Boeckner. Read more… |
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| Camera Obscura – Look To the East, Look To the West Camera Obscura’s sweet indie-pop couldn’t be kept down. Read more… |
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| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God For decades now, Nick Cave has made epic music, usually plumbing the depths of mankind. Read more… |
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| Cloud Cult – Alchemy Creek Remember the hope you had as a child? Read more… |
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| Cloud Nothings – Wild God Dylan Baldi’s Cloud Nothings could have easily aged into veteran status like so many punks before. Read more… |
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| The Cure – Songs of the Lost World There are few acts as beloved as The Cure. Read more… |
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| DIIV – Frog In Boiling Water Just as records from perceived or accepted gems of artists from the perspective, left or right, of “iconic” eras, surely DIIV’s albums, while a bit brash, edgy, bold, and polarizing, are also definitely intended as artsy, feel-good pop. Read more… |
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| Dinosaur Jr – Farm (15th Anniversary Edition) Just imagine, a world without attentive, caring, communal school kids, because this is the world which Dinosaur Jr keep from happening. Read more… |
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| Ducks Ltd. – Harm’s Way There was a time in the eighties when indie-pop was everywhere, from Athens, GA to New Zealand.. Read more… |
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| Elbow – AUDIO VERTIGO In these tragic times, Elbow have decided to give us some much-needed brightness (if still tinged with darkness) – and pull it off as well. Read more… |
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| Fontaines D.C. – Romance We all are having to deal with this difficult future we find ourselves in, where life & love are both easier and harder. Read more… |
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| Kim Gordon – The Collective This in-worked, artsy, art-worded, art-handed, full-LP, which never forgoes Sonic Youth vibes or work ethics, just released The Collective. Read more… |
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| Japandroids – Fate & Alcohol Canada’s Japandroids have always bounded in like a breath of fresh, bracing air, their glorious up-rock anthems earned through hardship & delivering hope. Read more… |
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| Dawn Landes – The Liberated Woman’s Songbook Everything from the past is coming back, in ways good & bad. Read more… |
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| The Last Dinner Party – Prelude To Ecstasy We’ve got so much music at our hands these days, it’s hard to feel that anything is new. Read more… |
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| J Mascis – What Do We Do Now? J Mascis’ new solo album, What Do We Do Now?, really seems to be a California-folk-scene release based on a promise or a premise of lifestyles in suburbia, but firmly rooted in “counter-culture”. Read more… |
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| Maxïmo Park – Stream of Life Indie-rock has managed to produce many reliable, long-lived acts who, even if they might not be your favourite, you do like, you are glad that they’re still around, and you are glad that they’re still making great records. Read more… |
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| The National – Rome The National have become one of the biggest bands in alternative music these days. Read more… |
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| Colin Newman – Bastards (Deluxe Edition) Despite the album title, the wild Bastards (Deluxe Edition), is a release for the working class people. Read more… |
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| Old 97’s – American Primitive The reliable Old 97’s prove once again that they’re alt-country for everyone with American Primitive. Read more… |
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| Pixies – The Night the Zombies Came The 2024 Pixies present us with The Night The Zombies Came, timed perfectly for the run up to Halloween. Read more… |
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| +/- – Further Afield Like sonic styles before it, indietronica rose from obscurity to ubiquity to being absorbed & changed. Read more… |
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| Matt Pond PA – Call and Response EP Singer/songwriter Matt Pond has retired & unretired his ‘Matt Pond PA’ so many times, it’s no surprise that, despite having recently founded a new group, The Natural Lines, he’s now returned to PA. Read more… |
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| Shout Out Louds – Howl Howl Gaff Gaff Revisited EP To honor an anniversary and respect the forward march of life, the band has revisited five of the songs in Howl Howl Gaff Gaff (Revisited) EP. Read more… |
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| Sleater-Kinney – Little Rope Things have shifted for Sleater-Kinney. Read more… |
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| Sasha Alex Sloan – Me Again As odd as it might seem on first blush, sad girl pop and country music have a lot in common. Read more… |
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| Spoon – They Want My Soul: Deluxe More Soul Edition Just as within all remasters, They Want My Soul Deluxe Edition is a best as a prisms of the creation of Spoon’s works but some workplaces, work ethics and work processes are relevant, some less so, some reworks are also most important. Read more… |
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| St. Vincent – All Born Screaming As St. Vincent, Annie Clark has shifted personas and sonic styles for years now. Read more… |
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| Taste In Music For many artists, the big off-stage stand-out is the food. Read more… |
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| Jack White – No Name Considering that he’s been one of the biggest forces in music in the twenty-first century, it’s remarkable how Jack White’s music is rooted in the middle of the last century. Read more… |
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