Review: The Stay Lows – “The Red Budget” August 28, 2008 It figures I’d find a record like this only after compiling all those obligatory year-ending top 10 lists. Where have these guys been hiding?… Continue Reading
Review: Skyscraper Frontier – “Moonlit Behavior” August 28, 2008 The first track from this LA quintet’s debut might be the most deceiving introduction to a record you’ll hear this year. Held together with… Continue Reading
Review: At Dusk – “You Can Know Danger” August 28, 2008 The third record from this Portland trio aims for the stars but, ultimately, the whole package comes off more as a series of passing… Continue Reading
Reviewer Spotlight: The Melvins – Gluey Porch Treatments August 28, 2008 Originally published in Punk Planet March/April 2007 I was, admittedly, in grade school in 1986 when Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover and Matt Lukin drove… Continue Reading
Review: Vopat – “Sometimes It Will” August 28, 2008 This somewhat-anonymous act shows no love for boundaries on a 10-song outing that refuses to adhere to genre formulas or even the conventional borders… Continue Reading
Review: The Sea, Like Lead/Belegost – S/T August 28, 2008 So, guess who’s been holed up in basements studying old Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Silver Mt. Zion records? Two guitar-driven East Coast acts… Continue Reading
Review: Modwheelmod – “Enemies & Immigrants” August 28, 2008 The packaging for this six-song disc provides an image familiar to many aspiring home-recorded acts: a God’s-eye-view photo of the duo, apparently mid-recording, surrounded… Continue Reading
Review: Knurl – “Sycamine” August 28, 2008 The latest offering from noisemaker Alan Bloor takes an interesting premise – that an instrument forged from found stainless steel can shatter eardrums as… Continue Reading
Review: The Melvins – “A Senile Animal” August 28, 2008 During the two decades The Melvins have been churning out records and wreaking havoc on stereo speakers, they’ve featured more bassists than the U.S…. Continue Reading
Review: The Heads – “Under the Stress of A Headlong Dive” August 28, 2008 Under the Stress of a Headlong Dive is a lumbering giant of a record. Pay the price of admission and you’ll get treated to… Continue Reading
