Aural Fixations
THE ACKERMANS
"Song In Your Street" + "Sweet Goodbye"
(Inpediente)
EBON TALE
"Sit Down" + "This 6 Year Old Feeling"
(Dusklight)
ENEMIES SWE
"Enemy" + "Is It My Body"
(Plug or Die)
TOBIAS FRÖBERG
"So I" + "The Rain (demo version)"
(Silence)
Despite its frigid climate, Sweden has one of the hottest, most fecund music industries in the world right now. It seems like you can't swing a Hardanger fiddle without smacking yet another new artist from the Nordic climes. (more)
JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ
Veneer
(Imperial)
Born and raised in Sweden to an Argentinean family, José González sits quietly in a chair with a beat-up nylon stringed guitar and sings for only the lonely on his debut full-length Veneer. (more)
SPENCER P. JONES
Fait Accompli
(Spooky)
Australia's Spencer P. Jones is best known in the States (if at all) as one of the pickers in dirt rock titans the Beasts of Bourbon. But he's had a parallel solo career going for years, and Fait Accompli is his latest offering. (more)
MUDDY WATERS
Hard Again
I'm Ready
King Bee
(Epic/Blue Sky/Legacy)
Many years ago, when I was just starting to dip my toes into this whole music critic thing, my friend Brian Briscoe (whose writing has done so much to enhance the quality of this website over the years) introduced me to the blues. (more)
What We're Listening To
- Brian Briscoe, author:
- Femi Kuti—Fight to Win
- Van Morrison—Poetic Champions Compose
- Howlin' Wolf—The Chess Box
- Michael Toland, Editor-in-chief:
- Gutterball—s/t
- Let's Active—Big Plans For Everybody/Every Dog Has His Day
- The MC5—High Time
What are you listening to? Tell us, and we'll tell the world.
