Review: Trvss – “Absence” September 5, 2019 Holy shit, man. How a rock band sounds so vicious, yet so calculated and razor-sharp precise on a record, never mind a debut LP,… Continue Reading
Review: Dw. Dunphy (as No-Fi Dead Horse) – “Limb From Limb” September 5, 2019 There always was a kind of glowing charm to Dw. Dunphy’s lo-fi days. Take “Jupiter In Retrograde,” originally released, without much fanfare, back in… Continue Reading
Profile: Damon Che (2019) September 2, 2019 At the time, everybody in Pittsburgh knew Damon Che. But few really knew him. Che, who now lives an uneventful life in the Amish… Continue Reading
Review: The Turbosonics – “Bedrock Stomp” b/w “Journey to the Center of the Sun” August 30, 2019 The Turbosonics, one of Pittsburgh’s more reliable surf bands, always has been a bit of a cultural throwback for me, and I don’t mean… Continue Reading
Review: Warm Red – “Big Tiger” b/w “S.A.M.” August 30, 2019 Warm Red has that special something about it. The Atlanta quartet, which is making its recording debut today on Chunklet with the “Big Tiger”/”S.A.M.”… Continue Reading
Review: The Lampshades – “Forget Me Not” b/w “Sadly True” August 30, 2019 As posthumous releases go, the new 7-inch from Pittsburgh-by-way-of-Altoona’s The Lampshades, out today, is the exception to the rule in this fatalistic sub-genre: an… Continue Reading
Review: Meeting With Hans – “Genius Loci” August 8, 2019 Multi-instrumentalist Tomas Svoboda is clearly out to toy with listeners’ expectations of recording fidelity. The Czech musician’s third LP as Meeting With Hans –… Continue Reading
Profile: Beach Blanket Blowout (2019) August 7, 2019 Any musician’s urge to worship at the altar of Dick Dale has to start somewhere. For Kevin Koch, drummer for Los Vampiros Amarillos, the… Continue Reading
Profile: Urns (2019) August 6, 2019 Pittsburgh’s Urns descends from the dirgy, often glacially paced punk-metal of Melvins, Earth, Sunn O))) and other icons whose guitar riffs are sludgy and… Continue Reading
Review: Picastro – “Exit” August 1, 2019 Liz Hysen’s reliably dissonant acoustic guitar might ground her as Picastro, but her work on six strings, however interesting it might be, is only… Continue Reading
