REVIEW: Watter – “History of the Future” October 20, 2017 Watter – a Louisville post-rock band that’s high in promise due to its parentage, if nothing else – simply fails to deliver on the… Continue Reading
PROFILE: King G and The J Krew October 10, 2017 Twenty five years ago today, the beat was born. It was the sound of young adults from Louisville – a sprawling collection of collaborators,… Continue Reading
Louisville-Born, Brooklyn-Based — PROFILE: David Grubbs (2006) January 19, 2017 The classroom is empty, the students more than an hour away, but David Grubbs sits behind a console in an unassuming Brooklyn College radio… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Jacob Duncan – “The Busker” January 17, 2017 Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden’s pristine and bright-eyed collaboration on the 1997 Verve LP Beyond The Missouri Sky (Short Stories) is a decent point… 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: We Only Said – “Boring Pools” January 23, 2015 It’s hard to believe We Only Said operates nearly 4,100 miles outside Louisville, once- and always-home of post-rock icons Slint and Rodan. They just… Continue Reading
PROFILE: Rachel Grimes (2014) December 22, 2014 Rachel Grimes knew how to play the piano before she learned to walk. “My dad and grandmother played, so I was always sitting beside… Continue Reading
PROFILE: David Grubbs of Squirrel Bait November 6, 2014 Before Louisville was associated with Palace, though after, I suppose, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled its seedy decadence during the Derby, there was Squirrel Bait, a… Continue Reading