Jan Krist / Fallow Ground
I first read of Jan Krist nearly 20 years ago. A review of her album ran alongside an album that has since become a cherished favorite and for some...
Article Category: Album Reviews
Church Shoes / Church Shoes
Like it or not, Church Shoes’ eponymous debut record reminds me of Whiskeytown’s Stranger’s Almanac. Not because Shoes necessarily sounds like Whiskeytown...
Lee Miles / The Leaving
Musical connoisseurs of Fort Wayne, do you know what you have on your hands with Lee Miles? For starters, a dusky, haunting moan of a voice that demands...
Kill The Rabbit / Pieces
It’s been a big year for Kill the Rabbit. The band has been booked solid for most of 2010, playing shows nearly every weekend as local tavern owners...
Marmoset / Tea Tornado
Indianapolis indie rockers Marmoset are the relative you don’t mind having visit for the weekend. They come in softly, warm up the room with fuzzy and...
Dean Jay / LP
There be some weird, freaky shtick in the Fort these days. First you’ve got Christians putting on monster masks and singing horror songs and going national....
Carol Lockridge / You Make Me Blue
We can thank Detroit for giving us Carol Lockridge, and now we can thank Carol Lockridge for giving us You Make Me Blue.
This debut, which hit the...
Hometown Hooligans / Unfinished Business
I love hip-hop culture and music first and foremost, and when I popped in Hometown Hooligan’s Unfinished Business I was immediately drawn into their...
The B-Sharps / The ‘B’ Is For Party
Talk to any member of the now defunct B-Sharps and you’ll very likely learn one thing: they don’t like their second album, The “B” Is For Party, quite...
Lee Miles / Open Your Grievous Heart
Had Fort Wayne-based singer/songwriter Lee Miles been blessed with better physical health I’ve no doubt he’d have moved on to bigger things by now....