Category: Reviews

The record opens with a repetitive thumping, like some primitive dance beat mouthed onto the waiting surface of a microphone, before we hear the…

Pittsburgh is no stranger to migration. The city lost half of its residents in the years between 1950 and 2000, some of that, no…

So, where do you want to begin? The way electric guitars scratch and scrape, building toward a verse, before Vic Chesnutt spits out the…

Apologies for sounding like a broken record or an oversimplified lecture on aesthetics but there seem to be at least two distinct castes within…

Talk about misleading or false impressions. The first song off Okay Okay Okay, the third outing from California’s The Santiago Steps, starts the proceedings…

Rejoice, lovers of broken beauty, rejoice! The Brooklyn quartet Skeletons has released a record so profound in its disjointedness, so dedicated to its skittering…

My Bloody Valentine knew how to bury and obscure the heart of a poppy melody or a dazzling hook in a mountain of carefully…

Here’s another year and there’s another record from The Melvins. This one, an 11-track outing titled Nude With Boots, sows some familiar territory —…

Alright, let’s get it right out of the way, then. Yes, the band’s name is Pee-Pee and, no, the moniker does not seem to…

The record’s title track begins with muted guitar notes, the humming of an organ and the soft, occasional strum of an acoustic guitar. The…