Category: Features

Top 10 of 2003 Originally published in Delusions of Adequacy 01. Pinataland – Songs from the Forgotten Future Vol. 1 An enveloping and seamless…

Originally published in The Montclarion April 26, 2001 01. Slint – “Spiderland” (Touch and Go Records, 1991) The Rosetta Stone of post-rock, Slint’s “Spiderland”…

Underappreciated Album: Rapeman – Two Nuns and A Pack Mule Conventional wisdom seems to be that the only phoenix born of the ashes of…

Underappreciated Album: Pell Mell – Interstate There are some records that just are made to be played out of car speakers. Call them road…

Underappreciated Album: Vexed – The Good Fight Vexed’s The Good Fight is, simply put, a bizarre and riveting little musical document. Released by Seattle…

Underappreciated Album: Turtletoes – Jackersville The mysterious and mysteriously overlooked Jackersville , the only recorded offering from the Chicago-area indie jazz-rock outfit Turtletoes, would…

Underappreciated Album: Steven Jesse Bernstein – Prison “The poem I write is a colorful affair within the body of a man playing dead –…

Underappreciated Album: Milk Cult – Burn or Bury The early 1990s seemed to be a tough time for Boner Records, a somewhat small, Berkeley-based…

Underappreciated Album: Latimer – LP Title With apologies to both greasy cheesesteaks and the cheesiness of the Dead Milkmen, I’ve got to be honest:…

Underappreciated Album: Scratch Acid – The Greatest Gift More people have probably seen Scratch Acid cited as an influence in interviews than have actually…