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: CALYX – “For To, Oh” EP November 2, 2017 Contrary to the imagination of its title, CALYX’s Four To, Oh is not a testament to weed-fueled jam-band mythos or, this being Pittsburgh, a… 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
Welcome To Pittsburgh #2: T-Tops – S/T March 5, 2015 Hello and thank you for kicking the snow off your feet as you cross the Popdose threshold of Welcome To Pittsburgh, Now Go Home…. Continue Reading
Welcome To Pittsburgh #1: Broughton’s Rules – “Anechoic Horizon” February 19, 2015 In this fine, first edition of Welcome To Pittsburgh, a new, somewhat-irregular Popdose column dictating the independent musical pulse of the Rust Belt’s cultural… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Bedhead – “Bedhead: 1992-1998” Boxed Set November 18, 2014 The single guitar note, all fragile and frosted glass, falls on the foot of the kick drum. And then, as the notes continue to… 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
