Review: Fox Medicine – “Procedures Mystique” November 8, 2019 No less an authority on sludge and the seedy intersection of punk and metal than Melvins/Tool board-helmer Toshi Kasai recently described Portland duo Fox… 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
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: 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: 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
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
REVIEW: Hepa-Titus – “Gettin’ It On” November 6, 2014 Originally published in Popdose on Nov. 5, 2014 Ipecac Records devotees might be led, for good reason, to believe that the Kevin Rutmanis narrative… Continue Reading
