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: Glenn Echo – “Fixed Memory” November 16, 2021 “You are my hearth, my home/ Stoke the fire/ I’ve been away too long/ Stoke the fire,” Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Matt Gaydar, a.k.a. Glenn Echo,… Continue Reading
Review: Erik Della Penna – “Rainy” July 13, 2021 Ladies and gentlemen, Gotham’s antique-garde marches onward! Though banjo tinkerer and carnival barker/band leader Curtis Eller continues to rage raggedy in the North Carolina… Continue Reading
Review: Human Impact – “EP01” March 25, 2021 It isn’t until the final third of EP01, released quietly in March by Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings, that noise-rock supergroup Human Impact truly serve… 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: David Grubbs/Taku Unami – “Comet Meta” June 1, 2020 In “Heart of the Thrumming House”, the fourth track off the new David Grubbs and Taku Unami collaboration, Comet Meta, listeners can be forgiven for feeling… Continue Reading
Review: Ryan Rumery – “And, Apart” March 24, 2020 Multi-instrumentalist Ryan Rumery’s emotive music always has traded in a kind of nuance, with even his most emphatic statements – which often are bookmarked… 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
Review: Erik Della Penna – “New York Songs” December 13, 2019 It’s been a decade since New York City antique-garde duo Kill Henry Sugar – they of “cinematic gravitas,” quoth the Village Voice — released… Continue Reading
Review: BATTLES – “Juice B Crypts” October 25, 2019 BATTLES’ syncopated loops may circle triumphantly around the drains of the mind but its lineup has not fared as well. Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Braxton exited… Continue Reading
