Year-End Bests, Part 1: From the Editor
It’s been a great year in music, with all the genres I love producing at least one album I can call a classic. I’ve reviewed a ton of music this […]
It’s been a great year in music, with all the genres I love producing at least one album I can call a classic. I’ve reviewed a ton of music this […]
Got a very big but high-quality roundup for you this November, 2014. Talk about an overflowing cornucopia of electronic delights. I’ve been figuratively spinning these albums for a while and […]
Sometimes you just vibe with a certain person’s music; you don’t really know why, you just experience a more profound reaction than you do to the music of other, ostensibly […]
Make Your Own Taste’s submissions processes went into full crisis mode during the summer of 2014; success is hard to handle sometimes, and this site getting onto the radars of […]
by Allister Thompson Tribute albums suck. Yep, and they were really big in the nineties, weren’t they? For every act from the sixties and seventies you could pay homage to, […]
by Allister Thompson Cousin Silas is the musical persona of Englishman David Hughes, and he has been making music under this name since 2003 — a LOT of music. In […]
by Allister Thompson It seems kind of odd to be reviewing a relatively recent Steve Roach release, because knowing him he’ll probably have another three out by the time I […]
The world is fortunate to get a second roundup/capsule review post from me this month. And this one contains a cute little conflict of interest, technically. Two of my contributors, […]
One of the main reasons why I continue to review music so regularly and put so much effort into it is that not only do I get to hear a […]
This new release from the Psychonavigation label proves definitively that there is always life left in the specific sounds of a particular era, if those sounds had any genuine intrinsic […]
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