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
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
Rediscover: Shiny Beast – S/T EP September 8, 2022 The band in question is Shiny Beast, an angry-as-fuck Raleigh, N.C. outfit that pulled their name – we’re guessing here, kiddos – from the… Continue Reading
Profile: Tara Jane O’Neil (2022) September 6, 2022 The electric guitar quickly slinks its ways through the background. After a moment or two, it gathers momentum under the whisper of a woman’s… Continue Reading
Feature: Holy Hell! ‘Amore del Tropico’ is 20 August 9, 2022 It’s less of a feeling than a declaration of intent. After a brief, 12-second-long sound snippet, The Black Heart Procession launches bravely, even defiantly,… Continue Reading
Feature: Best Records of 2022, So Far (Spectrum Culture) July 19, 2022 Calexico – El Mirador [ANTI-] The tea leaf reading for those cribbing notes on Calexico: El Mirador, the once-Tucson-based collective’s 10th studio LP, is… Continue Reading
Revisiting: Big Black’s “Atomizer” April 12, 2022 The year is 2006. We’re in Chicago. Touch and Go Records is turning 25, just old enough to rent a car. And Big Black,… Continue Reading
Feature: Five Years Later – Best Music of 2016 January 20, 2022 David Bowie – Blackstar [Columbia/RCA/ISO] Mankind has been flirting with its own mortality since the beginning of time – but leave it to David… Continue Reading
Feature: Best Songs of 2021 (Spectrum Culture) December 20, 2021 Black Midi: “John L” [Rough Trade] Those seeking traces of Empirical wisdom in the newest work from Black Midi, everyone’s favorite tribe of super-ambitious… Continue Reading
