Review: Dw. Dunphy/Jeff Elbel/Randy Kerkman/Dan Pavelich – “Everything Goes To Hell” December 5, 2017 For a song titled “Everything Goes To Hell,” this is pretty gleaming. Assembling for the Co-Op an indie supergroup of sorts – bassist Jeff… Continue Reading
Review: Tom Waits – “Alice”/”Blood Money” (Remastered) December 5, 2017 Tom Waits never has sounded better, at least in terms of fidelity, than he does on the new, re-mastered versions of Alice and Blood… Continue Reading
Review: Little Mazarn – S/T December 4, 2017 I’ve always considered Curtis Eller to be the prototypical underground banjo player. He crafts song-stories about history (or more appropriately, history through a warped… Continue Reading
Concert Review: Aaron Myers-Brooks/Radon Chong/Patchwork/How Things Are Made – Brillobox, Pittsburgh, Nov. 20, 2017 December 1, 2017 Time in all its awkward majesty was the unannounced theme of the evening at Brillobox Thursday night, as a quartet of bands performed songs… Continue Reading
Review: The Sun Machine – “Turn On To Evil” November 24, 2017 The Sun Machine certainly has its musical reference points down pat. On its evocative Turn On To Evil LP, which was released two days… Continue Reading
Review: Slow Decay – “Ghosts” EP November 17, 2017 Hard to get into Ghosts, the new EP from Isle of Man’s Slow Decay. It’s not that there’s anything particularly wrong with the three-song… Continue Reading
Review: DF – “abcdf” EP November 15, 2017 I feel largely under-qualified to review abcdf, the new EP and accompanying visual experience from Montreal duo DF. While tenor saxophonist Dustin Finer employs… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Jozef Van Wissem – “Nobody Living Can Ever Make Me Turn Back” November 7, 2017 Minimalist composer and lutenist Jozef Van Wissem follows up last year’s When Shall This Bright Day Begin with a new LP, the spare and… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Murder For Girls – “All The Pretty Stars” November 7, 2017 Blender analogies are lazy, so let’s find a way around them. While Murder For Girls always has traced its trajectory back to the Riot… Continue Reading
REVIEW: U-Men – S/T November 3, 2017 My first exposure to the bizarre genius of U-Men came when I first tracked down a vinyl copy of the scene-setting C/Z Records comp…. Continue Reading
