Review: Jozef Van Wissem and SQURL – “Only Lovers Left Alive” (Reissue) May 25, 2021 Neil Young was lauded – rightly and justly, it should be said – for the highly textured, nuanced guitar experimentation that helped score the… Continue Reading
Profile: Urns (2019) August 6, 2019 Pittsburgh’s Urns descends from the dirgy, often glacially paced punk-metal of Melvins, Earth, Sunn O))) and other icons whose guitar riffs are sludgy and… Continue Reading
Review: J. Foley – “Drone Loops” May 7, 2018 Now, this is the way EXPERIMENTAL music is supposed to sound – epic, thought-provoking and loud! The Austerity Program guitarist J. Foley departs sonically… Continue Reading
Review: Dylan Carlson – “Conquistador” April 26, 2018 I know it’s utterly blasphemous to suggest in underground circles, but my first point of entry when listening to Dylan Carlson’s new “Conquistador,” the… Continue Reading
Review: Saleeha – “Come Wander Through The Pale Dark” April 19, 2018 As Saleeha, the Australian-born, Vancouver-based Max Buchanan makes meditative, slowly unfurling soundscapes that, surprisingly enough, do not echo or mime fellow Vancouver-based ambient artist… 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
