Can you believe it’s been five whole years since From the Intercom started making year-end lists? Five. Whole. Years! I still remember sitting alone in the local coffee shop (which has since closed down), typing away at a list that I thought that no one would bother to look at. My selection process for the […]
On I Just Want to Be Wild For You, the sophomore album of Portland-based indie-rocker MAITA (Maria Maita-Keppler), there’s a buzzy energy that lends itself to both introspection as well as liberating rock-out jams. Songs like the cold album opener “Loneliness,” the observant “Blue Has Gone Gray,” and the witty “Light Of My Life (Cell […]
The 25 albums that we picked as the “Best of 2020” this year nearly all tap into a familiar running theme: the comfort of nostalgia. Amidst a stressful hurricane of a year, many of us here at From the Intercom turned to albums that were inspired by simpler times, recapturing the magic of rumbling dancefloors, […]