Review: El Ten Eleven – “Tautology I” May 8, 2020 The first chapter in El Ten Eleven‘s new three-part musical journey seems to be written entirely in the third person and drained of all impulse… Continue Reading
Profile: Same (2020) May 5, 2020 Playing guitar in an indie-rock band in 2020 requires some genre knowledge and a lot of muscle memory, that ability to reproduce the fingers… Continue Reading
Review: Le Petite Mort – “Disco” January 10, 2020 The name of the song is “A Piano In The Basement” and, though it closes the 13-track record, it’s the best point where you… Continue Reading
Review: Rob Ford Explorer – “Buh Bye” January 6, 2020 The reference points behind Rob Ford Explorer’s name ain’t aging that well. Yes yes, Ford in its capitalist wisdom has released a 2020 Explorer… Continue Reading
Review: Paranoid Void – “02” December 27, 2019 Wow! Just wow. The new Paranoid Void EP – which hides behind the dubiously simple title of 02, out online this week – will… Continue Reading
Review: The Glad Husbands – “Safe Places” December 20, 2019 Everything that’s muddy-minded about Safe Places – the new LP from Italian mathcore trio The Glad Husbands, out four days ago on CD and… Continue Reading
Review: Wet Fruit – S/T December 6, 2019 The songs just skitter away in a delightful pop of Roman candles on Wet Fruit’s self-titled, debut LP, out last week on digital and… Continue Reading
Review: Monotrope – “Immutable Future” November 20, 2019 Monotrope’s new record is a wondrously dense thatch of black thorns and I love it for that. In case you’re just joining the show,… Continue Reading
Review: Pray For Sound – “Waves” November 6, 2019 Sorry, I don’t dig on proselytizing. So, okay I’m biased. And when I heard, via advance PR notes, that the quartet Pray For Sound… Continue Reading
Profile: Damon Che (2019) September 2, 2019 At the time, everybody in Pittsburgh knew Damon Che. But few really knew him. Che, who now lives an uneventful life in the Amish… Continue Reading
