Articles by Eric Hill
Barn Owl
Lost in the Glare
PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2011
With subtle adjustments in guitar style and very sly, minimal interjections from other instrumentation, Evan Caminiti and John Porras have...
Mika Vainio
Life (…It Eats You Up)
PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2011
Never a stranger to abrasiveness or pummelling electronics, Mika Vainio brings his guitar to the party this time for some hands-on axe grin...
Fruit Bats
Tripper
PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2011
Ten years and five albums in, Eric D Johnson's Fruit Bats continue to write and record undeniably pleasant, heartfelt songs. They shoot int...
The War on Drugs
Slave Ambient
PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2011
If Kurt Vile snuck away with more than his share of War on Drugs' stash of mojo, departing after 2008 debut Wagonwheel Blues, the evidence...
Jackie-O Motherfucker
Earth Sound System
PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2011
It was closing in on a decade since Jackie-O Motherfucker last popped up on my freak radar, so this fairly cold reintroduction was equally...
EDM
Night People
PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2011
It has been a period of flux for our friends in the Early Day Miners: new shortened name and a return to the label they first called home....
Dakota Suite
The Hearts of Empty
PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2011
Since surviving his first decade as a well reviewed, if overly compared (usually to Mark Eitzel and Mark Kozelek), singer/songwriter, Chris...
Channel In Channel Out
The Author and the Narrator
PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2011
Marcus Cotten's compositions have the same "leave well enough alone" vibe that defined the '90s lo-fi movement within indie rock. In 2011,...