Review: Same – “Is Midnight” April 12, 2018 Pittsburgh alt/indie quartet Same has released the digital-only single “Is Midnight” and the surprising thing about it isn’t its glassy-eyed beauty, but how different… Continue Reading
Review: Randall Holt – “Inside The Kingdom of Splendor and Madness” April 11, 2018 The cello weeps and sows and soars, and so it goes with Randall Holt and his Inside The Kingdom of Splendor and Madness, which gets… Continue Reading
Review: Nonagon – “Tuck The Long Tail Under” April 11, 2018 Nonagon sound positively, well, positive on “Tuck The Long Tail Under,” its offering from a new split seven-inch with Cincinnati’s Knife The Symphony out… Continue Reading
Review: Big Weather – “The Lightest Darkness” April 10, 2018 Well, turns out climate change – for those rational people who agree with the science behind it – might not be all bad, after… Continue Reading
Video Premiere: The Bipeds – “Dressful of Dreams” April 2, 2018 Antique-garde aficionados, take note: The Bipeds has arrived. The Bipeds is a dance-theater company/rock and roll band under the artistic direction of choreographer/dancer Stacy Wolfson and Curtis Eller,… Continue Reading
Review: Pachyderm – “Verge” March 27, 2018 Pachyderm’s turning out to be a tough band to pin down. While the obtuse single the group dropped in January, the aptly titled “I’m… Continue Reading
Review: The Lampshades – “Astrology” March 21, 2018 The Lampshades, a trio of Pittsburgh-by-way-of-Altoona ne’er-do-wells, is nothing if not ambitious. It hasn’t always entirely been this way. Sunshine, its 2005 debut, was… Continue Reading
Review: The Elephant Parallax – “The Conscious” March 20, 2018 I pity anyone who has to come up with colorful ways to pigeon-hole The Elephant Parallax. The trio recently released online a single to… Continue Reading
Review: Your Food – “Poke It With A Stick” (Reissue) March 19, 2018 This Friday belongs to Your Food. The Louisville post-punk quartet – whose only LP, 1983’s Poke It With A Stick, is getting the reissue… Continue Reading
Review: Eric Chenaux – “Slowly Paradise” March 16, 2018 It’s an engaging conceit – the folk balladeer’s whispy, sometimes almost stagy voice hovering over deconstructed, ambient soundscapes – and Eric Chenaux nearly pulls… Continue Reading
