Andrew was born in New York, studied in Boston, and then (inexplicably) came back to New York. He likes to read, watch and listen to things, and then write things about those things. He has two cats, which he loves too much and talks to far too often.
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I’m not sure that I’ve ever been to a show where the supporting artist and headliner paired as well together as Xenia Rubinos and Tune-Yards did. Musically, politically, energetically, the two acts were made for each other. I managed to score a ticket to the tour’s recent (and sold-out) stop at Brooklyn Steel, one […]
Somewhere between 2008’s Limbo, Panto and 2009’s Two Dancers, I was introduced to Wild Beasts and, as they say in the movies, it was love at first sight. I was immediately grabbed by the off-kilter complexity of the music, the astonishing falsetto of Hayden Thorpe’s vocals, the earthy deep richness of Tom Fleming’s. That […]
Ida Maria is something of a musical chameleon. The Norwegian songstress exploded onto the scene with 2008’s Fortress ‘round My Heart, a pulse-pounding, wholly unique rock experience. It’s a little punk and a little pop, but definitely not pop punk. It’s got surprisingly tender moments, and those of pure unrestrained joys. Fortress ‘round My Heart […]
“What were 2017’s best albums?” is, to me, a loaded and super difficult question. 2015 and 2016 were both stellar years for me. Quite a few albums from the period still feature heavily in my rotation. Just scratching the surface, there’s Coheed and Cambria’s The Color Before the Sun, Mbongwana Star’s From Kinshasa, Iggy Pop’s […]
Typhoon, the Portland, Oregon-based 8-piece indie rock outfit, is here with “Darker,” their last single before the release of their fourth LP, Offerings. Offerings is the culmination, and compilation, of three “movements” of the album released periodically over the past several months. The first movement, Floodplains, was released last October and spawned the project’s first […]
Coheed and Cambria is a band that has spawned many side projects. The most recent is Chonny and Clyde, made up of Coheed frontman Claudio Sanchez and his wife Chondra Echert. The pair weren’t yet ready to unveil the music they’ve been working on (first teased about two months ago), but found their hands recently […]
The sounds of Apothek have been floating around the IBG staff for quite a while. I stumbled across a single, “Waiting for the Thunder,” back in February (having missed last October’s release of “Family”). I fell instantly in love, the way only a first kiss can make you do. Then, in June, my erstwhile colleague […]
Once a week at roughly 12pm Pacific Standard Time on Monday, a gentleman by the name of Clark Dinnison releases a mixtape of 10 carefully curated songs that are making big waves on his radar. This is Noon Pacific. Noon Pacific // 210 “Something Special” by Slowes — A slow electropop tune. The vocals — […]
