Review: Squirrel Nut Zippers – “The Lost Songs of Doc Souchon” February 23, 2021 What might appear to be a case of tone-deafness is actually a clever ruse. In 2020, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic and Trump’s… Continue Reading
Review: Coma World – S/T February 23, 2021 The British duo Coma World cites part of the inspiration for its debut LP as a friend’s recollections of being comatose. This little shred… Continue Reading
Review: The Underflow – “Instant Opaque Evening” February 18, 2021 The nearly 90-minute journey listeners take on underground super-trio the Underflow’s new live LP, Instant Opaque Evening, is most assuredly a varied and eclectic one…. Continue Reading
Review: Slint – “Breadcrumb Trail” b/w “Good Morning, Captain” February 12, 2021 It will take a pair or two of solid elephant’s ears to hear the microscopic distinctions between Slint‘s Spiderland, post-rock’s mighty Rosetta Stone, and the 1990… Continue Reading
Feature: Holy Hell – “Very Soon, and In Pleasant Company” is 20! February 8, 2021 In a word, precision. The three years that separate Rodan’s Rusty (1994) from the Shipping News debut Save Everything (1997) gave Jeff Mueller and Jason Noble, the Louisville-bred… Continue Reading
Review: Good Bison – “Scattered Storms” February 8, 2021 The debut EP from the Pablo Alvarez project Good Bison is titled Scattered Storms, but a more accurate name for it might be Not-So-Scattered Sunshine. The… Continue Reading
Review: Palberta – “Palberta5000” February 1, 2021 “Headed out on the town, headed out on the town/ You think you know it so well, you think you know it so well… Continue Reading
Review: Brian Eno – “Film Music 1976 – 2020” February 1, 2021 Much conversation on Brian Eno’s greatness ends up circling back to Music For Airports. Originally released in March 1978, the album might have the distinction… Continue Reading
Review: Dale Crover – “Rat-A-Tat-Tat!” January 26, 2021 Passing listeners could be forgiven for missing the little cues on the opening and closing of Dale Crover’s third solo LP, Rat-A-Tat-Tat!, out now via… Continue Reading
Review: Chris Brokaw – “Puritan” January 22, 2021 Chris Brokaw’s onto something. The post-rock mainstay (Codeine, Come) and longtime supporting player (everyone from Thurston Moore to G.G. Allin) borrows the title from… Continue Reading
