Maple Glider, aka Melbourne’s Tori Zietsch, caught our attention with 2021 debut album To Enjoy Is The Only Thing. She’s back today with a cover of Shania Twain’s crossover hit “You’re Still The One,” which peaked at #2 in 1998 and cemented Twain as a presence on Top 40 radio. Zietsch’s version of the track scales back the poppiness in favor of something closer to soulful folk-rock with an Angel Olsen flavor. Listen below.
“All my rowdy friends have settled down/ On the outskirts of town/ We’re doing divorcee drugs in bathroom stalls/ Of strip clubs or strip malls.” So go the opening lines of “A Half Finished Wall Of Glass Blocks” by American Motors, a noisy, minimalist post-something trio (Post-rock? Post-punk? Post-hardcore? It all kinda fits…) from Lancaster, […]
The other day, I was driving into Richmond for a show, and I noticed a big billboard hanging over Route 64. It was a picture of Mutant Academy, the great local indie-rap collective, and it said something like “Mutant Academy welcomes you to Richmond.” This was one of those digital billboards that keeps changing, and […]
The truism about not meeting your heroes is an old one, and it’s unfortunately right pretty often. I’ve met a bunch of the people that I grew up admiring, and most of them have turned out to be lovely people, at least in my experience. The ones that turn out shitty, though? Those ones stick […]
