Review: The Dead Space – “Chlorine Sleep” May 12, 2021 The Dead Space’s Chlorine Sleep hits all the right goddamned notes square on a waiting chin out of the gate. There are mightily propulsive,… Continue Reading
Review: Exhalants – “Atonement” September 21, 2020 This year has become a Groundhogs Day of Nightly News shitshows in much of the Western world, but 2020 (we’ll give it this much)… Continue Reading
MusicTAP Record of the Year (2019) December 30, 2019 It’s an ugly, vicious thing for an ugly, vicious year. And, yeah, there might be bigger chart-toppers from 2019 or “better” market-researched deep-cuts out… Continue Reading
Profile: Microwaves (2018) September 30, 2018 Microwaves is at a crossroads. The Pittsburgh trio, which has been soldering together noise-rock, no wave and art-metal for 18 years now, has a… Continue Reading
Review: Exhalants – S/T September 4, 2018 To call Austin’s Exhalants a bombastic noise-rock trio is to call Everest a molehill. These guys, who released an epic, self-titled full-length via Self… Continue Reading
Review: Monoculture – “Life Goes By” February 1, 2018 Psych/jazz from Texas? I’ll take it! Dallas’ Monoculture tomorrow will release “Life Goes By,” the first single available from its forthcoming LP. (The song… Continue Reading
REVIEW: The Kraken Quartet – “Separate | Migrate” April 24, 2017 Conventional time signatures, beware the Kraken! Polyrhythms rule the roost on Separate | Migrate, the new record from Austin’s The Kraken Quartet, self-released by… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Elephant Rifle – “Ivory” May 29, 2015 This record begins with the uncontrolled wailing of guitar feedback and squalor, later joined by the gasps of a dying piano. And that’s a… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Zu – “Cortar Todo” May 13, 2015 Want a quick hit summary on an interesting record? Zu’s Cortar Todo, out now on Mr. Mike Patton’s Ipecac Records, is a mind-bending mélange of… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Wet Lungs – “Vile Hobbies” EP November 19, 2014 God bless Gabe Serbian. While some members of San Diego grind-core legends The Locust are taking an indefinite break while the populace waits for… Continue Reading
