Steve Gunn’s new album, The Unseen In Between (Matador), contains the most assertively outgoing music of the Brooklyn-based guitarist’s career. It grabs the listener right out of the gate with the soaring strings, reverberant electric guitar, and swinging upright bass (played by Bob Dylan bandleader Tony Garnier) of “New Moon.” Gunn has never sounded as […]
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Despite his growth as a singer-songwriter, Steve Gunn still engages in profound exploration with drummer John Truscinski
Philadelphia’s Steve Gunn had made a name for himself with both his exploratory acoustic fingerstyle guitar playing and his more turbulent, noisy improvisational excursions before finding a new voice as an introspective singer-songwriter with a big sound; his songs meld lyrics that reflect a refined introspection with dusky, sometimes raucous folk rock that borders on […]
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Consummate sideman James Elkington takes the reins—but loosely
Former Zincs leader James Elkington plays with Joan Shelley, Tweedy, Brokeback, Eleventh Dream Day, and more—and the new Wintres Woma, his first album under his own name, won’t change that.
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J Mascis gets goopy on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster is designed by local artist Josh Davis of Dead Meat Design.
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Nashville’s Promised Land Sound expand their country-rock music
The band deftly incorporates psychedelia on its strong new album For Use & Delight.
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Best shows to see: Don Giovanni, Suffocation, Steve Gunn
The best shows to see on Mon 10/6 through Wed 10/8
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The Reader’s guide to Pitchfork afterparties
Pitchfork afterparties: There’s no Bitchpork this year, but there is Rotted Tooth, plus plenty more.