On paper, Hartford, Connecticut doesn’t seem like the most fertile arts community. Sure, the Mark Twain House is a popular tourist attraction and three members of Toto call Hartford a hometown, but it appears largely overlooked when compared to behemoths like Boston and Philadelphia. When zeroing in on the University...
There’s a point in Everything Dies, the second album from Walford, UK’s Nervus, where Em Foster thinks her life might start at 29. It’s on lead single “Sick Sad World,” a tangled mess of guitar leads and a narrator who’s unreliable only because she has a “melted...
Photo Credit: Valley Taylor Derek Ted’s music has a certain warmth that seems, upon first listen, to be at odds with the words that accompany it. His hidden thoughts mixtape, pieced together via iPhone voice memos and four-track recording, warbles with lo-fi earthiness within a cloudy headspace....
As we get deeper into the darkest time of year, both physically and metaphorically, it’s hard to stay positive and keep moving forward when it seems like everything in the world is falling apart. Sometimes, the only way to cope with an increasingly tough world is to listen to music that will try to make...
Much like other works from London-native Archy Marshall (aka King Krule), his newest release operates as a grab-bag of influences and musical styles. Listening to The Ooz is like being asked to make sense of snippets of someone else’s dream — hard enough were they your own — nigh impossible...
We at Modern Vinyl are fans of Tyler Bisson: he helped us bring our first podcast cut live to lathe vinyl, after all. In his latest excavation over at Audio Geography Studios, he’s tapped into what may be the final frontier of turntable media. LaserDiscs debuted in North America in 1978, tapered...
