Review: Painted Eyes – “Demo 2018” March 9, 2018 Talk about modesty. The Pittsburgh trio Painted Eyes quietly dropped its debut release, the appropriately titled Demo 2018, on Bandcamp Wednesday, not making a… Continue Reading
Review: Tango With Lions – “The Light” March 5, 2018 The acoustic guitar scales dance with trickles of piano and the occasional tip-tip-tapping of drums, singer-songwriter Katerina Papachristou’s breathy vocals leading the way. It… Continue Reading
Review: Léah Lazonick – “Movimenti della Luna d’Oro” February 22, 2018 All it takes is 12 minutes to wow us. With a sense of movement falling somewhere between the piano phrasings of Cage (thinking The Seasons,… Continue Reading
Review: Jason Sharp – “Stand Above The Streams” February 21, 2018 For all its wondrous ambiguity, ambient music can be an exacting sort of art; one false step or misplaced note, and the whole canvas… Continue Reading
Review: Ilyas Ahmed – “Closer To Stranger” February 15, 2018 How this one flew under the radar is just beyond me. Released Jan. 26 by MIE Music, Ilyas Ahmed’s Closer To Stranger is a… Continue Reading
Review: Monoculture – “Life Goes By” February 1, 2018 Psych/jazz from Texas? I’ll take it! Dallas’ Monoculture tomorrow will release “Life Goes By,” the first single available from its forthcoming LP. (The song… Continue Reading
Review: Ampline – “Passion Relapse” January 31, 2018 If you like your underground rock jagged and rugged and raw, you’d best tune in for Ampline’s Passion Relapse. Out last week on Sofaburn… Continue Reading
Review: Pachyderm – “I’m Not Happy, I’m Just High” EP January 23, 2018 Consider this the fresh-faced first entry of the new year in Pittsburgh Single of the Year territory. The oft-engaging Pachyderm channels The Sea and… Continue Reading
Review: Mudhoney – “L.i.E.” January 19, 2018 I still remember the CD. My Mudhoney collection was fairly impressive in ’93, having dug deep into the band’s Sub Pop soil, but the… Continue Reading
Review: Barlow – “In A Stranger’s Car” (Reissue) January 18, 2018 Lo-fi fuzz-pop – think The Cure coalescing around the guitars of Les Thugs – is the name of the game on In A Stranger’s Car,… Continue Reading
