Articles by Eric Hill

Gary Higgins

Seconds

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

Long-delayed follow-ups always mix anticipation with trepidation. Higgins's 1973 release, Red Hash, had been one of those lost classics, fa...

The Pastels / Tenniscoats

Two Sunsets

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

Fuzzy sweaters, bed head and horn rims, the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning" on endless repeat while you read the paper and drink half...

Holy Sons

Criminal's Return

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2009

Since his duties in Grails, Om and Delorean apparently don't fill his calendar, Emil Amos has pencilled in his second solo album of the yea...

Jack Rose Dies at 38

PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2009

Jack Rose, the guitarist for Richmond, VA group Pelt, died Saturday (December 5) of a heart attack. He was 38. Rose, who was also a resp...

Fucked Up Announce North American Tour with Kurt Vile

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2009

Once again, Polaris Music Prize potty mouths Fucked Up are set to take their touring machine across North America. Things get going in Febr...

Radian

Chimeric

PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2009

This Austrian trio have always been adept at bridling the wild energies of trio interplay. On their first release in five years, Brandlmayr...

Glorytellers

Atone

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2009

Listening to the debut album by Karate in 1996 was like a pinhole view into a city block-sized universe where the twin tensions of post-har...

Volcano Choir

Unmap

PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2009

The key to this marriage between Justin Vernon and Wisconsin brethren Collections of Colonies of Bees seems to be "Woods," the final track...