On the first of March, 2020, John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster, aka the Mountain Goats band, visited legendary studio Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, TN.
In the winter of 2019, Bob Mould bucked the era's despair with his most melodic, upbeat album in ages, Sunshine Rock. Cut to spring of 2020, and he has this to say: "We're really in deep shit now."
This special 40th anniversary edition of the Red Cross EP, which includes the band’s six-song eponymous debut and adds five contemporaneous extra tracks, is the most comprehensive document to date of the extraordinary birth of Redd Kross.
Everything Is Green is Elephant 6 indie-pop at its most sun-dappled and homespun, full of chiming guitars, soft psych textures, and harmonies that seem to float in through an open window. This transparent lime reissue puts The Essex Green’s 1999 debut bac
The album's mournful and nostalgic lyrics, meanwhile, make for a sharp contrast with the warm, positively buoyant nature of Johnson's song structures and rich production.
