Shoegazers Drop Nineteens Return with Excellent ‘Hard Light’
Quickly after becoming early 1990s shoegaze darlings, Drop Nineteens disbanded. Now, 30 years later, they return with a renewed purpose and a new album.
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Dougie Poole Spins the Wheel of Rules and Lands on Transcendence
Dougie Poole’s sardonic humor, mixed with his love of country music’s storytelling past, turned him into a cult icon. Out of the pandemic is born a playful, wistful new album.
Dougie Poole Drops the Bit on ‘The Rainbow Wheel of Death’
Dougie Poole’s The Rainbow Wheel of Death has the genuine pathos of country’s best songs, with characters searching for love and longing for redemption in bars and dusty halls.
Brooding Goth Meets Post-Punk on Bambara’s ‘Stray’
On Stray, Bambara peel the curtain back further on their reality. Haunting and deeply evocative words are sewn into a dark tapestry of atmospheric, brooding goth meets post-punk on an album that lingers like the rough outline of an aging scar.