Review: TRVSS – “Instant Drugs” November 5, 2021 The ascendant noise-rock trio TRVSS has a potent little drug ditty percolating that’s about to harsh your mellow. Titled (yes, appropriately) “Instant Drugs,” the… Continue Reading
Review: Melvins – “Five-Legged Dog” October 14, 2021 The Melvins, God bless them, always have been an act eager to revisit their canon, to dive deep into the discography, and see what new… Continue Reading
Review: The Soviet Machines – S/T January 19, 2021 Enlisting Jack Endino turned out to be a damn good decision for the Soviet Machines. The noted Seattle-based producer/grunge “godfather” lends a caught-lightning-in-a-bottle vitality… Continue Reading
Review: Brat Curse – S/T October 11, 2019 Brat Curse writes in earworms. That’s the only logical conclusion you can come to after listening to the Columbus, Ohio quartet’s new self-titled outing,… Continue Reading
Review: Warish – “Down In Flames” September 11, 2019 The year is 1988 and the place is some dive bar outside Seattle. Or maybe it’s not – but it could be. The guitar-driven… Continue Reading
Profile: Urns (2019) August 6, 2019 Pittsburgh’s Urns descends from the dirgy, often glacially paced punk-metal of Melvins, Earth, Sunn O))) and other icons whose guitar riffs are sludgy and… Continue Reading
Review: T-Tops – “Disease” EP August 6, 2018 Talk about a punch to the gut. Something is roiling in Pittsburgh and the punk trio T-Tops is most definitely tapped into it. The… Continue Reading
Profile: Mark Deutrom (2018) February 9, 2018 Every 10 years, Mark Deutrom goes through some fresh hell. Take 1998, a couple of hells ago. Deutrom was recording his first solo record… Continue Reading
Profile: The Gotobeds (2018) January 26, 2018 “It’s always the easiest and least interesting route to have a preconceived notion of what band you want to sound like and then go… Continue Reading
Review: Mudhoney – “L.i.E.” January 19, 2018 I still remember the CD. My Mudhoney collection was fairly impressive in ’93, having dug deep into the band’s Sub Pop soil, but the… Continue Reading
