I sat. To say that this night was momentous was a disservice to the magnitude I felt it held. My brother sat, then our friend James sat. All of us lounged on the L-shaped couch in my living room, a perfect middle ground between the two speakers and amplifier that make up our home surround sound system. ...
In some ways, it’s hard not to treat “From a Basement on the Hill” as Elliott Smith’s suicide note. When Smith stabbed himself in the heart in his Los Angeles apartment on Oct. 21, 2003, his sixth studio album was largely completed, save some mixing and tracklist decisions. Smith’s death, ...
When I first encountered Julie (stylized “julie”) almost a year ago, I was listening to “Catalogue.” At that point it was just an unsuspecting single on a dreary evening walk back from Davis. Their “zoomergaze” sound, a sort of Tiktok-ified mix of shoegaze and grunge, had blipped on my radar ...
