Review: El Ten Eleven – “Tautology I” May 8, 2020 The first chapter in El Ten Eleven‘s new three-part musical journey seems to be written entirely in the third person and drained of all impulse… Continue Reading
Profile: Same (2020) May 5, 2020 Playing guitar in an indie-rock band in 2020 requires some genre knowledge and a lot of muscle memory, that ability to reproduce the fingers… Continue Reading
Review: Built to Spill – “Built to Spill Plays The Songs of Daniel Johnston” May 4, 2020 Listening to Daniel Johnston is a lot like playing a game of Fill in the Blanks. The core melodies and the song’s basic structure… Continue Reading
Feature: Bandcamp in the COVID-19 Era May 1, 2020 Bandcamp is a drug for music lovers and knowing that your support directly buttresses the performers’ work – on May 1, mind you, without… Continue Reading
Profile: Greg Dulli (2020) April 30, 2020 Cincinnati is a solid four-and-a-half drive from Millvale, Pa. but when Ohio-bred musical provocateur Greg Dulli plays Mr. Smalls Theatre in the Pittsburgh-area borough… Continue Reading
Review: Avishai Cohen – “Big Vicious” April 27, 2020 As a bandleader, the Israeli-bred trumpeter Avishai Cohen leans democratic. I don’t mean that in the American political connotation of the word – sorry, Biden 2020… Continue Reading
Review: Murder for Girls – “Done In The Dark” April 22, 2020 When I reviewed Murder for Girls’ last LP, All The Pretty Stars, for the SWPA-based zine Punksburgh back in 2017, I cited as the… Continue Reading
Review: Talking Book – “Talking Book II” April 22, 2020 The best film scores are symbiotes, feeding off developments on the screen as much as their notes and flourishes contribute non-diagetic narrative elements such… Continue Reading
Review: Clara Engel – “Hatching Under the Stars” April 17, 2020 “To Keep the Ghost at Bay” opens Clara Engel’s new LP – their 28th release on Bandcamp, out digitally on 5 April – and it… Continue Reading
Review: Sir Richard Bishop – “Oneiric Formulary” April 14, 2020 “Oneiric”, as Merriam Webster or the Oxford English Dictionary might note, applies to content whose narratives are dream-like or packed with the stuffing of… Continue Reading
