We wish we had met at a juke joint at the end of some lonesome road, just past the city’s edge. Or at a dive; full of the clack-clatter commotion of a bustling street. Music blasting, the drinks stiff, the clientele… (Read More)

If you’ve been paying attention for the past several years, you know that scores of bands have been cultivating atmospheric pop music with sweeping melodic hooks. While most claim Joy Division as a predecessor, too many are diluted third-rate Radiohead clones… (Read More)

Dameon Merkl is a dangerously funny man with a penchant for inspired self-deprecation and Bukowski-esque aphorisms. Get him behind the mike with his band, however, and he’s as menacing and spooky as a walk through Lafayette Cemetery on a moonless summer… (Read More)