Review: Same – “Is Midnight” April 12, 2018 Pittsburgh alt/indie quartet Same has released the digital-only single “Is Midnight” and the surprising thing about it isn’t its glassy-eyed beauty, but how different… Continue Reading
Review: Nonagon – “Tuck The Long Tail Under” April 11, 2018 Nonagon sound positively, well, positive on “Tuck The Long Tail Under,” its offering from a new split seven-inch with Cincinnati’s Knife The Symphony out… Continue Reading
Review: Big Weather – “The Lightest Darkness” April 10, 2018 Well, turns out climate change – for those rational people who agree with the science behind it – might not be all bad, after… Continue Reading
Review: Pachyderm – “Verge” March 27, 2018 Pachyderm’s turning out to be a tough band to pin down. While the obtuse single the group dropped in January, the aptly titled “I’m… Continue Reading
Review: The Lampshades – “Astrology” March 21, 2018 The Lampshades, a trio of Pittsburgh-by-way-of-Altoona ne’er-do-wells, is nothing if not ambitious. It hasn’t always entirely been this way. Sunshine, its 2005 debut, was… Continue Reading
Review: The Elephant Parallax – “The Conscious” March 20, 2018 I pity anyone who has to come up with colorful ways to pigeon-hole The Elephant Parallax. The trio recently released online a single to… Continue Reading
Review: Your Food – “Poke It With A Stick” (Reissue) March 19, 2018 This Friday belongs to Your Food. The Louisville post-punk quartet – whose only LP, 1983’s Poke It With A Stick, is getting the reissue… Continue Reading
Review: Eric Chenaux – “Slowly Paradise” March 16, 2018 It’s an engaging conceit – the folk balladeer’s whispy, sometimes almost stagy voice hovering over deconstructed, ambient soundscapes – and Eric Chenaux nearly pulls… Continue Reading
Review: Counterweight – S/T March 16, 2018 Compositions like the enigmatic “Time Is A Sphere,” with its marriage of modern jazz and math-rock, are enticing stuff but, ultimately, Counterweight’s new, self-titled… Continue Reading
Video Premiere: The Lampshades – “Civilization and its Discontents” March 12, 2018 It starts with a detuned piano and ends with the lonely shaking of maracas, an epic and loose-limbed nugget titled “Civilization and its Discontents.”… Continue Reading
