By Troy Vita Music Director Starring: Troy Vita Jacob Carter Che Salgado Clayton Ambrose In the long-awaited third episode of Audio Input we talk about Mark E. Smith passing away, the right and wrong calls of the Grammys, important love songs and how ruggedly handsome Armie Hammer is.
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist It’s about that time, ladies and gentlemen. Time for that cool weather to grace our presence with its beautiful and steely chill, albeit for only once or twice a week. However, if those winter winds do ending up rolling up on your doorstep for actual consecutive days, you’re gonna look like a damn fool if you don’t have any music prepared. Luckily, you’ve got me […]
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist Artist: Julien Baker Album: Turn Out the Lights Label: Matador Release Date: October 27, 2017 The wars that rage within ourselves can often be the most devastating in the small sphere of our individual lives. The destruction that results from these battles is unexplainable to those who don’t understand them, making it difficult to rectify the physical and mental worlds. On her second album Turn Out the Lights, singer-songwriter […]
By Troy Vita Music Director Starring: Troy Vita Jacob Carter Che Salgado Clayton Ambrose The riveting follow-up to Audio Input episode 1. In this edition, we talk about the rampant cancellation of small festivals and do a deep dive on our individual favorite albums of all time. Join us on this journey through the great music that made us who we are.
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist Emotion and music have been tightly knit together for centuries, since long before it was an art-form of the masses. In its current form, the musician funnels their inner feelings into their art for consumers to absorb or reject, relate or dismiss. As the barrier of what is acceptable lyrical content fades further and further into the ether, we get albums concerning the most complex […]
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist Artist: Pile Album: A Hairshirt of Purpose Label: Exploding In Sound Records Release Date: March 31, 2017 If there is any true form of justice in this world, then Pile is poised for a breakthrough. For the past six years, the Bostonian rock band has been making weird, wonderful, and largely underappreciated music that stands out among an indie rock scene that some may see […]
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist It’s probably happened to you before. Through some means, you’ve come in contact with a song that lies outside the range of what you consider to be “good” music. However, the song draws some sort of positive reaction out of you, maybe born out of nostalgic attachment or some vague interest in the melody. You may even find yourself singing along. Later, when recounting the […]
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist Every music listener has a certain genre of music to which they pay gratitude as a catalyst for their life-long love of the art form. If you ask any fan of music who was born in the early to mid-90’s about their musical origins, a good portion of them might respond, with nostalgia-filled glee, by relating some sort of anecdote about seeing a YouTube video […]
By Clayton Ambrose Music Journalist If you have ever been a fan of Weezer’s Blue Album or Pinkerton, you have probably spent some amount of time lamenting the band’s steep and ugly decline. I was very much the same, shaming Weezer for their lackluster post-90’s output and clinging to their first two albums like holy grails, but then a thought occurred to me: had I actually listened to any of their […]
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