Review: Stephen Ulrich – “Music from ‘This American Life'” March 18, 2023 Stephen Ulrich’s Music from “This American Life”, a solo debut of sorts, takes the late-night, urban noir tendencies of the band Ulrich fronts, Big Lazy,… Continue Reading
Review: Neutral Milk Hotel – “The Collected Works” March 18, 2023 Among his many other talents, Jeff Mangum is a brilliant editor. The Neutral Milk Hotel front-man rather famously wrote many of his songs in… Continue Reading
Rediscover “Disco Volante” (2023) February 14, 2023 Mr. Bungle, that merry band of musical mischief-makers, made a big, Zorn-assisted splash with its self-titled, major-label debut in 1991. This was due, in… Continue Reading
Review: Loscil/Lawrence English – “Colours of Air” February 14, 2023 The music of Loscil, the nom-de-guerre of the ingenious, Vancouver-based sound sculptor Scott Morgan, tends to inspire verbose prose. On Loscil’s new LP with… Continue Reading
Review: Brainiac – “Predator Nominate” February 14, 2023 Predator Nominate, a newly released EP of unreleased music from name-drop-ready ‘90s underground outfit Brainiac, is incomplete but, nevertheless, illuminating. Released by the band’s… Continue Reading
Feature: Best Albums of 2022 December 22, 2022 Big Thief – {Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You} [4AD] Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, Max Oleartchik and James Krivchenia spins organic folk… Continue Reading
Feature: Best Songs of the Year (2022) December 22, 2022 Bill Callahan – “Partition” [Drag City Records] It was quite the year for Bill Callahan, everybody’s favorite bass-inflected singer-songwriter, who started 2022 releasing a… Continue Reading
Review: Archers of Loaf – “Reason In Decline” December 22, 2022 Reunions are dicey ordeals. Even in the best of circumstances – and those, increasingly, are not the majority of them – band egos clash,… Continue Reading
Review: The Bobby Lees – “Bellevue” December 22, 2022 The average song by Woodstock, New York-based rock revivalists the Bobby Lees barely, only occasionally, breaks the two-minute mark. It’s part of the band’s charm, its… Continue Reading
Review: PAK – “The Ashfield Session” October 12, 2022 “Ron Anderson is the best kind of madman. There’s just no other way to say it.” So I wrote for The Brooklyn Rail way… Continue Reading
