It’s one of the best songs of the decade and it wasn’t even a charting single.

Jana Hunter recently released a limited edition split 7” EP with her brother’s band Inoculist on one side and her own track on the other.

Despite some of the record’s peculiarities, Bonfires remains true to what we’ve come to expect from the band.

If you are over twenty five you have probably heard it before. But it is probably also been quite a long time since you have heard it done this well.

Photo coverage of Micachu and the Shapes & Dessa at Minneapolis’ Cedar Cultural Center.

Photo coverage of Caroline Smith & the Goodnight Sleeps and the Daredevil Christopher Wright at Minneapolis’ Nomad World Pub.

While Devil is perhaps a little more folk than the Paisley Underground influenced dream pop of Sandoval’s yesteryear, longtime fans need not worry that she is heading in any radical new direction. The new material is a long overdue continuation of her very distinct slow-fuzz sound.

The big surprise isn’t that it is good, it’s that it is actually good enough to rival the strongest work on Alela Diane’s To Be Still.

If the Dirty Projectors’ The Getty Address (2005) is their Brothers Karamazov, then Orca is their Crime and Punishment: it should be required listening in all American schools.

Andorra is a blissful trip from beginning to end, successfully melding electronica with sunshine-psychedelia into a soaring soundscape of sonic peaks and valleys.

Photo and video coverage of Megafaun and Happy Apple at Minneapolis’ Cedar Cultural Center.

Backstage photo coverage of Megafaun at Minneapolis’ Cedar Cultural Center.