Profile: Spotlights (2019) July 16, 2019 The band Spotlights played its first show in Pittsburgh in 2017, opening for Melvins at Rex Theater in South Side. At the time, the… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Dead Cross – S/T August 4, 2017 Mike Patton has never fronted a band like this. The Faith No More frontman, known by most of the populace alive in the 80s… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Zu – “Jhator” April 17, 2017 It’s hard to imagine that the group behind these two pensive, funereal epics, out now on House of Mythology, is the same one that… Continue Reading
PROFILE: Chuck Mosley (2017) March 27, 2017 Chuck Mosley just can’t stop. Chain-smoking Marlboro Blacks as he sits near the end of an aging sofa, the 80s icon kicks on some… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Crystal Fairy – S/T February 28, 2017 Don’t get me wrong: I like Crystal Fairy’s self-titled debut, I really do. I just don’t love it as much as I think I… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Faith No More – “Sol Invictus” May 19, 2015 Faith No More, after an 18-year recorded absence, is back today with a new CD, Sol Invictus, and the band sounds as finely tuned… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Zu – “Cortar Todo” May 13, 2015 Want a quick hit summary on an interesting record? Zu’s Cortar Todo, out now on Mr. Mike Patton’s Ipecac Records, is a mind-bending mélange of… Continue Reading
REVIEW: tētēma – “Geocidal” December 8, 2014 Sabina Maselli’s spirited avant-film experimentation is the perfect introduction to tētēma, the Anthony Pateras/Mike Patton duo debuting tomorrow on Ipecac. Both, it should be… 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
REVIEW: The Melvins – “Hold It In” November 6, 2014 The latest Ipecac Records serving by proto-punk/metal-heads/Gods of Thunder The Melvins — this one titled, counter-intuitively, Hold It In — sounds like another experiment… Continue Reading
