A Certain Smile – Fits & Starts album review
Portland’s A Certain Smile create a timeless dream pop/shoegaze/jangle rock masterpiece with Fits & Starts – and it’s their first album!!! “Twee music”...
Portland’s A Certain Smile create a timeless dream pop/shoegaze/jangle rock masterpiece with Fits & Starts – and it’s their first album!!! “Twee music”...
Originally released in 1983, “Emergency Third Rail Power Trip” by The Rain Parade is as near perfect an album I have encountered. To my ears in those days,...
Doom Metal, by nature, inherently evokes catastrophe. The funereal pace, cannon-like percussion, unholy yowling and cheese grater guitars suggest apocalyptic im...
A roundup of tunes about the winged, wondrous and wild creatures we know as birds.
Released worldwide today, July 28th, the new album by The Fall, has the weight of years working against it. The group has been an ongoing concern for roughly 40...
“Oh, Pyschedelia The way it sounded (MONO or STEREO)What generated its effects (OIL and WATER)How it extended into digital (ZEROES and ONES)The way it was docum...
To remedy end-of-week weariness, here are five songs to shimmy and shine life back into your limbs:
The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen… The desert is beautiful, ” the little prince added. And that was true. I have always loved the...
In this installment, Swintronix interviews fellow Freeform Portland DJ Lucifer Rosa of the weekly show Tchotchkes. How did you hear about Freeform Portland...
In this installment, Swintronix interviews fellow Freeform Portland DJ Adam of the weekly show Instead Of White Men. How did you hear about Freeform Portla...