January 2010

Or, The Whale: Rusty Gold

Like any good San Francisco band, OR, THE WHALE partially owes its inception to the online bulletin board service Craigslist; at one point, Robins and Matt Sartain (guitar and vocals) posted an ad titled “Wanna Form a Sweet Country Rock…

Truckfighters: Kickdown

From the album Phi on Fuzzorama Records, Truckfighters’ second full length album. Truckfighters are from Örebro in Sweden. When Truckfighters were formed back in the days of 2000 they had a bunch of musical directions and influences. Their intention was…

Moonbabies: War on Sound

If you haven’t already been acquainted, MOONBABIES is a Swedish duo formed in 1997 by core members Ola Frick (Vocals, Guitar and misc. Instruments) and Carina Johansson (Vocals & Keys). Their earliest efforts recalled early Indie/Shoegazer influences by bands like…

Brookhaven: Out on the Floor

From their new album ‘When the Chorus Walks’, which is the follow-up to 2005’s ‘Transitive Verses’ BROOKHAVEN began in 2000 as the home recording project of Sonny James, a certain hybrid of minimal electro and drone-rock composed by way of…