Review: Warish – “Down In Flames” September 11, 2019 The year is 1988 and the place is some dive bar outside Seattle. Or maybe it’s not – but it could be. The guitar-driven… Continue Reading
Review: Kal Marks – “Let The Shit House Burn Down” September 10, 2019 Now, I’m not always prone to deflect a kind remark when something better comes along, but, listen listen, follow my logic here. At the… Continue Reading
Review: Trvss – “Absence” September 5, 2019 Holy shit, man. How a rock band sounds so vicious, yet so calculated and razor-sharp precise on a record, never mind a debut LP,… Continue Reading
Review: Dw. Dunphy (as No-Fi Dead Horse) – “Limb From Limb” September 5, 2019 There always was a kind of glowing charm to Dw. Dunphy’s lo-fi days. Take “Jupiter In Retrograde,” originally released, without much fanfare, back in… Continue Reading
Review: The Turbosonics – “Bedrock Stomp” b/w “Journey to the Center of the Sun” August 30, 2019 The Turbosonics, one of Pittsburgh’s more reliable surf bands, always has been a bit of a cultural throwback for me, and I don’t mean… Continue Reading
Review: Warm Red – “Big Tiger” b/w “S.A.M.” August 30, 2019 Warm Red has that special something about it. The Atlanta quartet, which is making its recording debut today on Chunklet with the “Big Tiger”/”S.A.M.”… Continue Reading
Review: The Lampshades – “Forget Me Not” b/w “Sadly True” August 30, 2019 As posthumous releases go, the new 7-inch from Pittsburgh-by-way-of-Altoona’s The Lampshades, out today, is the exception to the rule in this fatalistic sub-genre: an… Continue Reading
Review: Meeting With Hans – “Genius Loci” August 8, 2019 Multi-instrumentalist Tomas Svoboda is clearly out to toy with listeners’ expectations of recording fidelity. The Czech musician’s third LP as Meeting With Hans –… Continue Reading
Review: Picastro – “Exit” August 1, 2019 Liz Hysen’s reliably dissonant acoustic guitar might ground her as Picastro, but her work on six strings, however interesting it might be, is only… Continue Reading
Review: Demons – “Uglier Americans” July 30, 2019 As protest songs go, this one, yep, is pretty damn angry. “Uglier Americans” – the new MAGA-targeting protest song, out today online, from Virginia… Continue Reading
