REVIEW: Slint – “Spiderland: Remastered” November 6, 2014 Steve Albini once infamously offered up “ten fucking stars” in Melody Maker to the swansong LP of a then-unknown Louisville quartet named Slint. Twenty… Continue Reading
INTERVIEW: Curtis Eller November 6, 2014 Curtis Eller, banjo-picker extraordinaire, presents listeners with a quintessentially American cause celeb. Few work harder to drum up and rally a crowd with their… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang – “Four Foot Shack” November 6, 2014 Les Claypool is a national treasure. There, I said it. It’s a sentiment that’s been on the tip of everyone’s tongue and on the… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Curtis Eller’s American Circus – “How To Make It In Hollywood” July 30, 2014 Durham, N.C. has been good to Curtis Eller. Ever since the reigning banjo king of the East Coast’s “Antique-Garde” relocated to North Carolina from… Continue Reading
REVIEW: The Melvins – “Tres Cabrones” July 30, 2014 There are certainties in this universe and, to cop a phrase from that shaman Donald Rumsfeld, known knowns. Time will accumulate in seconds and minutes… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Nonagon – “The Last Hydronaut” July 30, 2014 It’s hard to write about Nonagon, a Chicago-rooted band whose latest pocket full of cuts and volts is a 12-inch EP titled The Last… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Mylets – “Retcon” July 30, 2014 “Ampersand” showed such promise. But we can’t all be Ian Williams. Mylets, the one-man-band pseudonym of guitar-texturist Henry Kohen, aspires to attain the heights… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Nirvana – “In Utero: 20th Anniversary Edition” November 6, 2013 Nirvana’s In Utero always has been ripe with context. Upon release in 1993, it wasn’t just the group’s third full-length record proper; it was arguably a… Continue Reading
Profile: Dw. Dunphy September 14, 2012 Beating The Dead Horse With Dw. Dunphy: A Profile by Justin Vellucci Dw. Dunphy’s face, a somber palette, is an exercise in disguise, spectacles… Continue Reading
Profile: PARTCH – Corporeally Yours (2012) March 22, 2012 Imagine musicians in street clothes flowing rhythmically as they hammer split ends of bamboo or pluck de-tuned strings. Picture dancers slinking across the stage,… Continue Reading
