Matt Conner

Running your own record label while charting your own musical course is now made possible by the advances in technology and connectivity of the world today. That still doesn’t make things any easier….

With their fourth and latest album, Mines, Menomena are withholding their kookier tendencies. Well, “withholding” might be a bit misleading. More accurately, Menomena are prolonging the amount of…

Last year’s Bethlehem Skyline album and tour was apparently received fairly well. The reason? Volume Two is slated for release in late September, giving fans of the Centricity label something to…

The Quitzow you know presently might not be the Quitzow of the future. That might come off a bit more dramatically than intended, but the point is that Erica Quitzow and her musical identity are…

Richard Thompson albums come in two basic varieties. On the one hand, you’ve got your albums that show, in one way or another, a kind of conceptual backbone — be it a narrative one (like his…

Andrew Rieger had no idea it would turn into this. Neither, for that matter, did Jeff Mangum, Robert Schneider, Bill Doss or Will Cullen Hart — the original friends behind the famed Elephant 6…

The slow, labored pop songs of Holy Fiction unfold in a much different way than your standard pop fare. Yet the tracks on Hours From It are undeniable in their original pop constructs. The organic…

It’s emotional pop music. That’s the easiest way to describe Rich Jacques’ outlet known as Right The Stars. He’s spun several musical plates in his past, whether touring with Chantal Kreviazuk,…

The power of story. The beauty of community. Those, I would say, encapsulate the dominant themes and conversations from the initial Hutchmoot gathering. Both are sexy. Both require work.

The…

The songs are longer. They’re less frenetic. Tokyo Police Club is growing up. Not that the manic energy that marked their earlier works was a bad thing; in fact, quite the opposite is true. The…