Pavement Ist Rad: A Brief History of Stephen Malkmus
A WPTS Special Feature by Spencer Smith Pavement is a rock band, formed in the late 80’s in California. They are known mostly for either their slacker, lo-fi aesthetic or broad influence...
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“Cue” by Jaunt – Review
Review by Spencer Smith. Score: 8/10 Jaunt’s second batch of songs following 2016’s Chat, Cue, is a startlingly short and remarkably cohesive collection of Canadian indie pop gems. This EP is the glamorous, cooler...
“Now Only” by Mount Eerie – Friday Featured Review
Review by Spencer Smith. Score: 9/10 Last year’s Mount Eerie release, A Crow Looked at Me, kicked off with one of the most gut-wrenching songs I have heard in all my years...
“A Productive Cough” by Titus Andronicus – Review
Review by Dustin Butoryak and Spencer Smith. Score – 7/10 Dustin Butoryak Sometimes the world is way too scary. It’s easy to feel powerless and lost in the shuffle of a life...
“The Operators” by Wei Zhongle – Review
Review by Spencer Smith. Score: 8/10 Wei Zhongle is a four-piece, Chicago group comprised of guitar, drums, fretless bass, and electric clarinet, making frantic, avant-rock music. The project is a collaboration between clarinetist,...
Best of the Semester (So Far) – A WPTS Music Special Feature
By John Wright Ah, Spring break… that magical time of the year where we get just a tantalizing taste of the freedom Summer brings to propel us through the last month and a...
“Room Inside the World” by Ought – Review
Review by Spencer Smith Score: 8/10 Ought’s debut LP arrived in 2013. It was a sparse statement of frenetic potential and raw anxiousness, showing a group that had, after only an EP,...
“Rock Island” by Palm – Review
This review features writing from Elyssa Pollio, Spencer Smith, and Alyssa Davidson This review was brought to you by… Score: 9/10 Elyssa Pollio Palm is a band that I have been into...
“Me, Again” by Boyo – Review
Review by Spencer Smith Score: 5/10 BOYO, the project of LA-based, lo-fi indie-boy Robert Tilden, has released its second album of rough-around-the-edges bedroom pop with Me, Again. Tilden’s take on bedroom pop explores...
White Light White Heat by the Velvet Underground – 50th Anniversary Retrospective
Featuring writing by Spencer Smith, Calder Buisch, and Thomas Troyan The Velvet Underground were a famed garage rock, proto-indie, proto-punk group, emerging from New York City, with ties to Pittsburgh’s own Andy Warhol....
