Profile: East Bay Ray (2022) September 13, 2022 East Bay Ray, birth name: Raymond John Pepperell, remembers the moment his mind first clicked into full-on crazed-punk mode. It was the late 1970s… 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
Matt Gaydar talks Glenn Echo project, pandemic, LP#2 February 3, 2022 Matt Gaydar isn’t going to let something as simple as a global pandemic slow him down. The acoustic singer-songwriter – who is thickly bearded,… Continue Reading
Profile: Dream Home (2021) March 18, 2021 “Forget me not, I’ll always be around,” Jaren Love sang, almost knowingly, on a posthumous single The Lampshades released after the trio called it… Continue Reading
Profile: Gaadge (2021) March 11, 2021 Audiophiles and home-recording aficionados will not believe their ears when they hear Gaadge, it’s that simple. Frontman Mitch DeLong, who founded the project as… Continue Reading
Profile: Nonagon (2021) March 2, 2021 Nonagon is at a crossroads. The Chicago post-hardcore trio has nearly 20 years under its musical title-belt, but on March 3, these long-time purveyors… Continue Reading
Profile: Radon Chong (2020) November 27, 2020 Radon Chong swears up and down that it’s not a – patent pending – Thinking Man’s Band, despite lots of mounting evidence to the… Continue Reading
Profile: Stone Throwers (2020) August 4, 2020 Here’s the set-up. The Pittsburgh-based soul musician known as Dr. D had just gone through a break-up a while back and was looking to… Continue Reading
Profile: TRVSS (2020) July 28, 2020 The new TRVSS song “Malaria” is as infectious as its title indicates. Of course, it falls seven songs into the trio’s second LP –… Continue Reading
Profile: Steve Albini (2020) June 10, 2020 Eight hours each way. That’s how long Tim Midyett and his friends drove to see Big Black play live in Seattle in 1987. Archaeological… Continue Reading
