Noise-rock supergroup Human Impact to play Pittsburgh Nov. 30 November 23, 2021 Human Impact is looking to make a ruckus in Pittsburgh. The esteemed, NYC-based noise-rock quartet comes to the Steel City next week for an… Continue Reading
Review: T-Tops – “Staring At A Static Screen” June 1, 2021 Few records this month or maybe even this year will reach the vintage of their street dates as locked and loaded as T-Tops’ Staring… Continue Reading
Review: Stella Research Committee – “A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness” March 16, 2021 There are records music critics absolutely adore and records that they totally hate. A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness is somehow both of… Continue Reading
Review: Human Impact – S/T March 12, 2020 Imagine an orgy scored by rusty industrial equipment blasting New York City noise-rock, something like Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, or Swans in their wicked… Continue Reading
Profile: Buildings/Bummer and Microwaves/TRVSS February 26, 2020 Noise-rock – NOUN – A type of rock music characterized by the use of dissonance or inharmonious noise, especially loud distorted guitar, amplifier noise, feedback, etc…. Continue Reading
Profile: TRVSS (2019) November 12, 2019 There are shreds of feedback and, waiting, waiting, waiting, also an air of anticipation as members of Pittsburgh trio TRVSS wait for WRCT DJ… Continue Reading
Review: Trvss – “Absence” September 5, 2019 Holy shit, man. How a rock band sounds so vicious, yet so calculated and razor-sharp precise on a record, never mind a debut LP,… Continue Reading
Profile: Microwaves (2018) September 30, 2018 Microwaves is at a crossroads. The Pittsburgh trio, which has been soldering together noise-rock, no wave and art-metal for 18 years now, has a… 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: Elephant Rifle – “Hunk” May 4, 2018 As pig-fuck goes, this is some of the best. For those just tuning in, pig-fuck is the unfortunately titled genre of explosive post-punk that,… Continue Reading
