
April certainly fulfilled its promise as being one of the better months for local music in recent memory, but from the looks of it we're not going to have any time to catch our breath before May comes barreling in with a promising host of new records clamoring for our attention. In fact, this month is not wasting a single second in unleashing new music on our ears. It's only the first and already we have brand spanking new releases from established acts Reptar and Hope for Agoldensummer , as well as one from up-and-comers the [...]

“Summer of ‘93” is the lead track from the Good Graces' latest EP, Wildcat Creek , due out today via local label Eskimo Kiss Records . Led by Kim Ware and accompanied—"when needed" as Ware says—by John McNichols, Jim Combs and Donna Riley, the Good Graces have been composing and performing their minimalist folk music for a few years now. A quintessential indie folk pop tune, “Summer of ‘93” reminds me of Foo Fighters' "Big Me" and the Mentos commercial they parodied into commercial stardom. Remember that song? Yeah, you kind of do, and [...]