Surviving the Golden Age

My review of The Chameleons’ latest album, Arctic Moon: #newmusic #albumreview @stgablog.bsky.social

My review of Wednesday’s latest album, Bleeds: #albumreview #newmusic @stgablog.bsky.social

Saw Destroyer in Boston on Friday. Here’s my review of the show: #livemusic #concertreview @stgablog.bsky.social

My review of Ivy’s latest album, Traces of You: #newmusic #newalbum #albumreview @stgablog.bsky.social

Okay, I had to look it up but Vitriol is a clothing brand sold exclusively at Zumiez. All of their clothes do look like metal band shirts though.

A curly haired man with thick rimmed black glasses with an acoustic guitar leans backward to belt out a note into a microphone

My passion is concert photography, and this one is extra special to me because I've waited 23 years to photograph this wonderful human being. Full review and photo set in the link

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My review of The Beths’ latest album, Straight Line Was a Lie: @stgablog.bsky.social

Folk Bitch Trio: Now Would Be a Good Time | Surviving the Golden Age At first listen, Australia might not be your first guess as to the country of origin of Folk Bitch Trio. Comparisons to the songs on their debut full-length, Now Would Be a Good Time, can easily be dr...

My review of Folk Bitch Trio’s debut album, Now Would Be a Good Time: @stgablog.bsky.social @jagjaguwar.bsky.social
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We Are Scientists: Qualifying Miles | Surviving the Golden Age We Are Scientists’ founding and only consistent members, Chris Cain and Keith Murray, have been recording albums infused with their brand of too-slick-to-be-indie, too-bland-to-crossover alternative r...

My review of We Are Scientists’ latest album, Qualifying Miles: @stgablog.bsky.social

Wet Leg: Moisturizer | Surviving the Golden Age It’s hard to believe it has already been over three years since Wet Leg dropped their eponymous debut studio album. Tack an additional year onto that time if you remember hearing their single “Chaise ...

My review of Wet Leg’s latest album, Moisturizer: @stgablog.bsky.social

Jonathan Richman: Only Frozen Sky Anyway | Surviving the Golden Age If you’re not counting his work with the Modern Lovers, the highly influential proto-punk band Jonathan Richman formed in Boston in 1970, or the LPs he recorded as Jonathan Richman and the Modern Love...

My review of Jonathan Richman’s new album, Only Frozen Sky Anyway: @stgablog.bsky.social #newmusic #albumreview

I thought Ruby Soho was all the friends we made along the way.

Pulp: More | Surviving the Golden Age One month after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States that ultimately altered global politics and public security forever, Pulp released what was then expected to be the Britpop ma...

My review of of Pulp’s new album, More: @stgablog.bsky.social #Britpop #newmusic #albumreview

People often ask me what “Surviving the Golden Age” means and I tell them it means you don’t die during the golden age. I thought that was pretty obvious.

This is almost verbatim the convo I had with Andy when he submitted the review.

Tracy Bonham: Sky Too Wide | Surviving the Golden Age For a singer-songwriter entering her third decade recording and releasing music under her own name, it may seem odd that Tracy Bonham’s latest proper studio album, Sky Too Wide, is only her eighth. Bu...

My review of Tracy Bonham’s new album, Sky Too Wide: survivingthegoldenage.com/tracy-bonham... @stgablog.bsky.social

How do you have this many Texas tour dates and the closest one is 7 hours from me?

Flavor?

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Tune-Yards: Better Dreaming | Surviving the Golden Age There’s a moment during “See You There”, the ninth song on Tune-Yards’ sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, when singer Merrill Garbus screams, “You said I’m going to hell, well, I’ll see you there!” ...

Read @andymascola.bsky.social ‬ review of @tuneyards.bsky.social new album, Better Dreaming (out now on @4ad.com )

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Destroyer: Dan’s Boogie | Surviving the Golden Age “The Same Thing as Nothing at All”, the five-minute, swirling, sing-spoken moment that opens Destroyer’s fourteenth studio album, Dan’s Boogie, is a weirdly premature victory lap that has the seasoned...

My review of Destroyer’s latest album, Dan’s Boogie: @stgablog.bsky.social survivingthegoldenage.com/destroyer-da...

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Check out this week's #FridayFresh featuring @remhq.bsky.social, @poldoore.bsky.social, @greenday.bsky.social, @blondshell.bsky.social, @bornruffians.bsky.social, and more!

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CocoRosie: Little Death Wishes | Surviving the Golden Age Skittering beats, gorgeous strings, and the fragile falsettos of sisters Sierra Rose "Rosie" and Bianca Leilani "Coco" Casady usher in CocoRosie’s eighth studio album, Little Death Wishes. On “Wait fo...

My review of CocoRosie’s new album, Little Death Wishes: #albumreview #newmusic #LostGirlRecords @stgablog.bsky.social

Check out this week’s #FridayFresh featuring @tuneyards.bsky.social, @greenday.bsky.social, @themarsvolta.bsky.social, and more!

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My Morning Jacket: is | Surviving the Golden Age If you don’t count the band’s wistful Christmas collection, Happy Holiday!, is* is (*not a typo, My Morning Jacket are intentionally making it difficult to write about their new LP by titling it ‘is’)...

Reviewed My Morning Jacket’s (@mymorningjacket.bsky.social) new album, is, for Surviving the Golden Age (@stgablog.bsky.social):

You have to go to Kazoo Center, obviously.

Check out this week’s #FridayFresh featuring @theknocks.bsky.social, @mymorningjacket.bsky.social, @weakenedfriends.bsky.social, @debbyfriday.bsky.social and more!

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