Feature: Holy Hell! ‘Insignificance’ is 20 December 3, 2021 What seemed a departure 20 years ago, another dramatic shift in tone and timbre, today seems like a bit of put-on. Or was it?… Continue Reading
Review: Directions – “Echoes” (Anniversary Edition) September 13, 2021 A seemingly incidental sliver of indie music history is being given the special edition re-release treatment by Temporary Residence, and God bless the label… Continue Reading
Review: David Grubbs/Loren Connors – “Arborvitae” June 7, 2021 Experimental guitar master Loren Connors and post-rock godfather David Grubbs recorded Arborvitae, a five-song suite and the duo’s only collaboration in a commercial studio,… Continue Reading
Review: The Underflow – “Instant Opaque Evening” February 18, 2021 The nearly 90-minute journey listeners take on underground super-trio the Underflow’s new live LP, Instant Opaque Evening, is most assuredly a varied and eclectic one…. Continue Reading
Review: Radon Chong – “Honey Worlds” EP January 19, 2021 The best songs by Pittsburgh avant-rock band Radon Chong don’t meander to a close; they kind of prance and trot and stumble along in… Continue Reading
Profile: Radon Chong (2020) November 27, 2020 Radon Chong swears up and down that it’s not a – patent pending – Thinking Man’s Band, despite lots of mounting evidence to the… Continue Reading
Review: David Grubbs – “October 19, 2017” November 13, 2020 6 April 2020, “The Quarantine Concerts”: This is the first time I remember hearing David Grubbs like this, and I was unmoored by the presentation and… Continue Reading
Review: Jim O’Rourke – “Shutting Down Here” August 11, 2020 Jim O’Rourke fired off “Cede” 20- or 25-odd years ago as a salvo in the battles within his alien landscape of a musical mind. Shutting… Continue Reading
Review: Bibio – Sleep on the Wing June 10, 2020 The closing and 10th track off Bibio’s Sleep on the Wing, “Watching Thus, The Heron Is All Pool”, is arguably the new record’s finest moment…. Continue Reading
Review: David Grubbs/Taku Unami – “Comet Meta” June 1, 2020 In “Heart of the Thrumming House”, the fourth track off the new David Grubbs and Taku Unami collaboration, Comet Meta, listeners can be forgiven for feeling… Continue Reading
