Will Schube cannot pick just one favorite Police Academy movie Immediately inserting themselves into the upper echelon of un-Googleable band names, Los Angeles Police Department, have to share internet traffic with the official concert band of the Los Angeles Police Force. Fortunately for Ryan Pollie (the band’s principal songwriter and seemingly the band’s only constant), […]

Will Schube better watch his speed There aren’t many folk traditionalists left—the sort of musician who treats public domain spirituals with the same reverence as original compositions. There are even fewer who update this tradition with modern twists—electronics, guitar solos, etc. Sam Amidon falls into the latter category—treating an R. Kelly slow jam the same […]

Will Schube only believes in the God of Death There should be something inherently wrong about an Appalachian folk revival band coming from Brooklyn. It should reek of the same preciousness so prevalent in that borough, with its artisanal everything and chronic gentrification. But, for some strange reason, O’Death doesn’t seem like any of this. […]

Will Schube believes they put a man on the moon I spent much of this past brutal Colorado winter layered in sweat pants and all-down-everything (slippers included), listening to Moonface’s Julia With Blue Jeans On over and over—Spencer Krug’s husky voice and powerful piano accompanying the seemingly constant snowfall. There’s something wonderfully intimate about Krug’s […]

Will Schube christens all blog posts with a beer bong A roadside grave suggests the opposite of what good music accomplishes, that is, something of permanence, distinction, and care. A roadside grave is temporary, an afterthought—a placeholder for something to come. The Roadside Graves—the band, not the highway rest stop-adjacent stone—turn the grave-in-passing into something […]

Like Greg Maddux, Will Schube stresses control over velocity Something weird happened to Blake Mills between the release of his criminally underrated debut Break Mirrors and now. Mirrors was released to little fanfare—his now-solo voice likely buried beneath the buzz created by his former bandmates in Dawes. That was four years ago, and in the […]

Will Schube is incognito and taking it easy There are few feelings greater than listening to a guitar player who simply owns his instrument. It’s an elusive skill—a combination of mastery, swagger, and that ever frustrating descriptor—feel. Steve Gunn, most well-known for backing up Kurt Vile, who has moved into the territory of bonafide solo […]

Will Schube is playing his part amazingly smart It’s easy to dismiss Spoon’s latest single, “Do You”, as nothing more than the band continuing along a path any fan of the group’s discography would be familiar with: great single, great album…Rinse, lather repeat. I often fall into the trap of taking the Austin, Texas band […]

Will Schube is still trying to see California, but this is his world Henry Miller once said that “Big Sur is the California that men dreamed of years ago.” While the internet and general 21st century tactics (let’s ruin everything good because we have lots of money and can do whatever we want) have taken […]

Will Schube usually be holding Tim Presley doesn’t spend much time dawdling on “Like That”, his latest single under the White Fence moniker. Within seconds, Presley’s finely tuned machine is off and running. It packs serious punch in its less-than-three-minutes run time. A brief guitar introduction (reminiscent of Girls’ “Lust for Life”) immediately gives way […]