REVIEW: Rolo Tomassi – “Grievances” July 15, 2015 My hard drive, in its dying breaths, killed my last review of Rolo Tomassi’s new record, Grievances. Good thing for them. It wasn’t very nice…. Continue Reading
REVIEW: Ampline/Buffalo Killers – Split Single June 4, 2015 Two Cincinnati bands prove The Afghan Whigs and The National are not maybe where this Ohio/Kentucky border city’s recent musical footnote ends in a… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Jim O’Rourke – “Simple Songs” June 3, 2015 Jim O’Rourke can resemble a complicated musical chameleon. Since the late 80s, he has blended a patchwork career in the avant-garde with explorations into… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Elephant Rifle – “Ivory” May 29, 2015 This record begins with the uncontrolled wailing of guitar feedback and squalor, later joined by the gasps of a dying piano. And that’s a… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Rachel Grimes – “The Clearing” May 28, 2015 There is a whisper, a scattering of whispers, a whole orchestrated evening of whispers – a subdued kind of wonder and majesty to it… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Faith No More – “Sol Invictus” May 19, 2015 Faith No More, after an 18-year recorded absence, is back today with a new CD, Sol Invictus, and the band sounds as finely tuned… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Zu – “Cortar Todo” May 13, 2015 Want a quick hit summary on an interesting record? Zu’s Cortar Todo, out now on Mr. Mike Patton’s Ipecac Records, is a mind-bending mélange of… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Calexico – Edge of the Sun April 24, 2015 For the latest chapter in the ongoing saga that is la telanovela Calexico — Edge of the Sun, out now on Anti- Records – let… Continue Reading
Welcome To Pittsburgh #4: Meeting Of Important People – “All Rode Off Together” April 23, 2015 Welcome to Popdose‘s latest installment of Welcome to Pittsburgh, part of your balanced, nutritious breakfast. It seems spring has sprung, though it snowed here on… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress April 21, 2015 Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress, the latest Constellation offering from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the second full-length since its much anticipated 2010 reformation,… Continue Reading
