April 2012 SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS As a fan of the Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine and Curve, I couldn’t resist School of Seven Bells when they entered the dream pop/shoegaze scene in 2007 with their 7″ recording “My Cabal”. Since then, they have released three solid full-length albums: Alpinisms (2008), [...]

March 2012 JBM I stumbled upon JBM (the music of Jesse Marchant) this morning while perusing the news page of one of my favorite labels – Western Vinyl and I haven’t stopped listening to JBM since. His music is reminiscent of M. Ward (Transfiguration of Vincent), Justin Vernon (For Emma, [...]

February 2012 Kathleen Edwards Kathleen Edwards is one of those artists that I didn’t expect to love as much as I do. Perhaps it’s because I find the timbre of her voice somewhat difficult to sing along to, or perhaps it’s because she has shared the stage with Brian Adams. [...]