When the sun's just right during late summer about dusk closing your eyes provides a sepia-toned reality of ringed light. At this time even closing your eyes can't keep the sun out. Ascenseur Ouvert! the latest from Chapel Hill veterans Kingsbury Manx has that effect.
Maybe it's the gluttonous nature of America. Maybe it's the desire for bigger louder and more intense. Hell maybe it's conventional wisdom. But most people just don't think a duo is a viable band configuration.
The rush to categorize music into neat little genres has created some silly classifications. But doom-pop? Steve Brooks lead singer of Atlanta's Torche a band that has received this distinction in plenty of reviews of its latest album Meanderthal is as confused as anyone about this seemingly contradictory descriptor.
Sunday morning holds a special place in the mythology of country music. The classic juxtaposition of coming down from the night before while looking skyward for guidance is as entwined into the DNA of the genre as Telecasters and pearl buttons.
When the winds of creativity strike Keegan Dewitt he often has to sit back and consider exactly which way he wants to follow the muse.
For Leigh Watson most everything is beautiful. It's a word she tosses around quite naturally in conversation using it to describe the home she and her sister share in Los Angeles to the unique experience of live music to the Laurel Canyon country sound that has influenced The Watson Twins' music since they moved west from Kentucky nine years ago.
To call Years of Refusal a resurgence for Morrissey would only tell half of the story. On the one hand he sounds much more powerful than on his last few releases. But on the other he's really just utilizing the same tricks he always has.
Unless you live in a total state of blissful denial you know that Valentine's Day will be upon us come Saturday. And we at Diversions want to make sure your Hallmark-invented day of love is as enjoyable as possible.
Music Review: The music of Phosphorescent is best enjoyed late at night. After wrestling with sleep for a few hours the tender yet pained voice of lead man Matthew Houck has an almost intoxicating quality.
The morning I spoke with Jason Brewer lead singer and songwriter of Charleston S.C.'s The Explorers Club was frigid with the January temperature hovering just above 40 degrees. The half-hour before the scheduled time of the interview was taken up by a quick run-through of the group's excellent debut album Freedom Wind an exercise that temporarily suspended the reality of winter.
