Review: Rodan – “The Hat Factory ’93” April 5, 2019 If Rodan’s Rusty is the butterfly on its ripe-peach-hued cover, the newly released ’93 recordings are the budding chrysalis. And they are something to… Continue Reading
Review: Various Artists – “Bridges” April 5, 2019 What makes Pittsburgh quintessentially Pittsburgh? It’s a good question, one with an urgency the national media’s been mulling for more than a decade (and,… Continue Reading
Review: Expires – “No New Futures” December 20, 2018 Last year’s Fake Sigils was an engaging slice of glassy post-rock but Pittsburgher Mike Layton’s latest outing as Expires — titled No New Futures,… Continue Reading
Review: Night Vapor – “1,000 Miles of Mud” December 19, 2018 “Dirtminer,” and its inherent sense of grime and mire and dischord, is the template. The opening song on Night Vapor’s 1,000 Miles of Mud — out… Continue Reading
Review: Greg Dulli – “Have Yourself A Merry, Little Christmas” December 14, 2018 In case you’ve been under a rock for the past 30 years, this just in: Greg Dulli’s a keeper, if he’d just allow us… Continue Reading
Review: Sarah Longfield – “Disparity” December 6, 2018 In terms of pure technique, Sarah Longfield’s a hell of a seven- and eight-string guitarist. Her new LP, Disparity, buttresses that thesis and then… Continue Reading
Review: Tenchio – “Bedroom Chaos of The Inner Noodle” December 4, 2018 Manuel Tenchio, who often just goes by the nom-de-guerre Tenchio, is a Uruguayan teenage guitar whiz who plays a kind of mutant math-thrash with… Continue Reading
Review: Calexico – “The Black Light: 20th Anniversary Edition” November 26, 2018 I don’t know if I’m old but this didn’t seem that long ago. And only old people say that. It was 1999, maybe 2000,… Continue Reading
Review: Christian Frederickson – “Islands of Light” November 2, 2018 There’s this piece of ephemera from the days of the Rachel’s ensemble that sticks to the attic of my mind like so much setting… Continue Reading
Review: Daughters – “You Won’t Get What You Want” November 1, 2018 Daughters, never a band to play it understated, returns as a beast both transformed and reborn in the Rhode Island quartet’s first release since… Continue Reading
