Author Archive: Mathew Schumer
This Week In Releases 1/17/2021 (Black Country, New Road, Terry Gross, Here Lies Man)

Some of our favorite additions to Heavy Rotation this week! Black Country, New Road: “Track X” For the first time by Black Country, New Road Enigmatic UK post-punk outfit Black Country, New Road come through with a new slow burner about (for lack of better words) love and loss. “Track X” is a lowkey […]
Album Review of ‘Force Majeure’ by Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas

Douglass and Younger come through with a record as spiritual as it is sparse. Force Majeure by Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger Amidst the wave of home-recorded albums this year, comes a uniquely intimate affair which sees bassist Dezron Douglas and harpist Brandee Younger string together highlights from a series of livestreams to create […]
This Week In Releases 1/4/2021 (Viagra Boys, Bill Callahan, Madlib)

It’s been a long first week of the year, luckily we’ve got some good tunes to boot. Viagra Boys: “Girls & Boys” For their last single in anticipation of their new record Welfare Jazz (which was released Friday 1/10/2021), Viagra Boys remains in the realm of new wave influence with a driving drum […]
MF DOOM: In Memoriam

WXCI Pays its Respects to Hip-Hop’s Greatest Supervillain The news of MF DOOM’s passing was announced New Year’s Eve via a statement made by his wife Jasmine. He had died two months prior, on Halloween. When I found out, it got me thinking about the impact DOOM has had on my own […]
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