Review: David Grubbs/Loren Connors – “Arborvitae” June 7, 2021 Experimental guitar master Loren Connors and post-rock godfather David Grubbs recorded Arborvitae, a five-song suite and the duo’s only collaboration in a commercial studio,… Continue Reading
Review: T-Tops – “Staring At A Static Screen” June 1, 2021 Few records this month or maybe even this year will reach the vintage of their street dates as locked and loaded as T-Tops’ Staring… Continue Reading
Review: Jozef Van Wissem and SQURL – “Only Lovers Left Alive” (Reissue) May 25, 2021 Neil Young was lauded – rightly and justly, it should be said – for the highly textured, nuanced guitar experimentation that helped score the… Continue Reading
Review: The Dead Space – “Chlorine Sleep” May 12, 2021 The Dead Space’s Chlorine Sleep hits all the right goddamned notes square on a waiting chin out of the gate. There are mightily propulsive,… Continue Reading
Review: Big|Brave – “Vital” May 10, 2021 There are things that rock bands, even the unconventional ones, can get away with in a live setting ― one with a living, breathing… Continue Reading
Review: Scott Helland, Guitarmy of One – “The Spy Detective Collective” April 14, 2021 What, at first blush, seems like a misstep or an oversight on Scott Helland’s interesting spy-themes LP, the appropriately titled Spy Detective Collective, often… Continue Reading
Review: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!” April 14, 2021 There’s reason to be excited – truly ecstatic, even – for the new LP from Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The record, titled G_d’s Pee… Continue Reading
Review: Gaadge – “Yeah?” March 29, 2021 Yeah?, the debut LP from Gaadge, is the sound of a new Pittsburgh. Gone are the “hell with the lid off” steel mills and… Continue Reading
Review: Tomahawk – “Tonic Immobility” March 29, 2021 Mike Patton likes his boxes all neat and tidy. While his early days with Mr. Bungle and Faith No More were filled with hungry… Continue Reading
Review: Human Impact – “EP01” March 25, 2021 It isn’t until the final third of EP01, released quietly in March by Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings, that noise-rock supergroup Human Impact truly serve… Continue Reading
