Ahh, "Brains." The song where Lower Dens took their dreamy twin-guitared smoulder for a trip up the Autobahn and made Nootropics one of my most anticipated LPs of 2012. For the "Brains" video, out…   Read Story »

Lower Dens first came on my radar when they opened (and stole) a show at Death By Audio with Double Dagger and Future Islands a few months ago. The room was crowded and smokey, I am vertically…   Read Story »

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For the penultimate Drive XV bonus track post, we turn to one of our favorite folkies (and top-flight pizza expert) Jana Hunter who, like Figurines, bent the titular rules on Automatic track "New…   Read Story »

Jana Hunter On "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1" "R.E.M. were a staple throughout my growing years, a favorite of older siblings, passed down and thoroughly embedded. 'New Orleans' seemed wandering…   Read Story »

When I wrote a review of Golden Apples Of The Sun, the 2004 scene-sealing compilation ably curated by Devendra Banhart, Jana Hunter's mysterious, lonesome "Farm, Ca" legitimately haunted me -- after…   Read Story »