Review: Pray For Sound – “Waves” November 6, 2019 Sorry, I don’t dig on proselytizing. So, okay I’m biased. And when I heard, via advance PR notes, that the quartet Pray For Sound… Continue Reading
Review: BATTLES – “Juice B Crypts” October 25, 2019 BATTLES’ syncopated loops may circle triumphantly around the drains of the mind but its lineup has not fared as well. Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Braxton exited… 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
Concert Review: The Gotobeds/Wax Chattels/Rave Ami/Late. July 15, 2018 Three Pittsburgh bands and an ear-pounding trio from New Zealand filled Lawrenceville’s bare-bones warehouse space The Shop with delicious noise Friday, and the crowd… 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: BATTLES – La Di Da Di October 8, 2015 It’s been a handful of weeks since Warp Records released BATTLES’ La Di Da Di, the experimental outfit’s third full-length LP proper, and we should… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Mylets – “Arizona” March 13, 2015 Now, that is what the fuck I’m talking about. From the first grungy, then vaguely pixelated, guitar chords of album-opener “Trembling Hands,”Arizona, the second… 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
