Review: Merce Lemon – “Moonth” August 11, 2020 There’s a clear line between Moonth, the new LP from Pittsburgh singer-songwriter Merce Lemon, and Liz Phair’s Exile In Guyville, which hit streets and stereos more… Continue Reading
Review: Daniel Donato – “A Young Man’s Country” August 10, 2020 Country guitar-slinger Daniel Donato has a success story that’s writ in big, block letters, locked in position and ready for mass consumption. A guitarist… Continue Reading
Review: TRVSS – “New Distances” July 30, 2020 Looking for noise-rock to cut through the film of dusty ear-drums like a straight razor? Well, TRVSS has your number. The trio cuts through… Continue Reading
Review: The Bobby Lees – “Skin Suit” July 15, 2020 What’s the opposite of rigor mortis, that stiffening of the joints that immediately follows death? Well, whatever it is, that’s the best way to… Continue Reading
Review: TJO – “Songs for Peacock” July 14, 2020 Memory is an illusion, a construction both flimsy and fluctuating that you can’t see with your eyes, much less touch with your hands. We… Continue Reading
Review: WiiRMZ – “Faster Cheaper” July 8, 2020 The joyfully bombastic quartet WiiRMZ hail from the same city that defined (and arguably invented) post-rock in the 1990s with bands such as Slint and Rodan…. Continue Reading
Review: Coriky – S/T June 29, 2020 Legendary Washington, D.C. post-hardcore act Fugazi has been on an indefinite hiatus for nearly 20 years. But the debut LP from super-trio Coriky, which… Continue Reading
Review: Cat Clyde – “Good Bones” June 15, 2020 Calling something “old-timey” can be a flat-out misnomer. The history of recorded music remains too new, relatively speaking, to know what signatures were writ… Continue Reading
Review: Bibio – Sleep on the Wing June 10, 2020 The closing and 10th track off Bibio’s Sleep on the Wing, “Watching Thus, The Heron Is All Pool”, is arguably the new record’s finest moment…. Continue Reading
Review: Mr. Bungle – “Fuck The U.S.A.” June 8, 2020 Mr. Bungle, which reincarnated Friday in the form of an online cover of the Exploited‘s anthemic (and rather timely) “Fuck the USA”, has always been utterly… Continue Reading
