Profile: Stone Throwers (2020) August 4, 2020 Here’s the set-up. The Pittsburgh-based soul musician known as Dr. D had just gone through a break-up a while back and was looking to… Continue Reading
Review: TRVSS – “New Distances” July 30, 2020 Looking for noise-rock to cut through the film of dusty ear-drums like a straight razor? Well, TRVSS has your number. The trio cuts through… Continue Reading
Profile: TRVSS (2020) July 28, 2020 The new TRVSS song “Malaria” is as infectious as its title indicates. Of course, it falls seven songs into the trio’s second LP –… Continue Reading
Review: The Bobby Lees – “Skin Suit” July 15, 2020 What’s the opposite of rigor mortis, that stiffening of the joints that immediately follows death? Well, whatever it is, that’s the best way to… Continue Reading
Review: TJO – “Songs for Peacock” July 14, 2020 Memory is an illusion, a construction both flimsy and fluctuating that you can’t see with your eyes, much less touch with your hands. We… Continue Reading
Review: WiiRMZ – “Faster Cheaper” July 8, 2020 The joyfully bombastic quartet WiiRMZ hail from the same city that defined (and arguably invented) post-rock in the 1990s with bands such as Slint and Rodan…. Continue Reading
Top 50 Records of 2020, So Far (Spectrum Culture) July 8, 2020 David Grubbs & Taku Unami – Comet Meta [Blue Chopsticks] The record begins in unassuming territory, two undistorted electric guitars unfurling jumbled yet glassy,… Continue Reading
Top 50 Records of 2020, So Far (PopMatters) July 8, 2020 My contribution to PopMatters‘ top 50 (so far): Chicago-based cellist Alison Chesley is accustomed to providing the sonic equivalent of accent marks and highlights… Continue Reading
Review: Coriky – S/T June 29, 2020 Legendary Washington, D.C. post-hardcore act Fugazi has been on an indefinite hiatus for nearly 20 years. But the debut LP from super-trio Coriky, which… Continue Reading
Review: Cat Clyde – “Good Bones” June 15, 2020 Calling something “old-timey” can be a flat-out misnomer. The history of recorded music remains too new, relatively speaking, to know what signatures were writ… Continue Reading
