Review: Brainiac – “Attic Tapes” June 24, 2021 Musical polymath Tim Taylor shuffled off this mortal coil way back on May 23, 1997, killed in a car crash in his 30th year of… 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
Feature: Unreliable Narrator (2019) December 11, 2019 Though the raucous punk of Pittsburgh band Unreliable Narrator’s debut LP – Old Man Yells At Older Man, self-released this month by the quartet – owes… 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: DANA – “Glowing Auras & Black Money” October 2, 2019 The cover for Glowing Auras & Black Money, the sophomore outing from Ohio art-punk/mostly punk outfit DANA, is all wrong. The image, which features… Continue Reading
Review: Roley Yuma – S/T July 16, 2019 Well, it took a couple decades, but it looks like Dayton, ground zero for bands as notable as The Breeders, Brainiac and Guided By… Continue Reading
Concert Review: Richard Buckner – Live In Pittsburgh, 06/07/18 June 11, 2018 It was 1998 when I first heard Richard Buckner, and I instantly was transfixed. The record in question was Since, his MCA collaboration with… Continue Reading
PROFILE: Kelley Deal (2017) April 25, 2017 She’s finding herself in the now again. Kelley Deal has topped charts with The Breeders but her latest outing, R. Ring’s Ignite The Rest,… Continue Reading
REVIEW: R. Ring – “Ignite The Rest” April 18, 2017 You can tell right from the get-go, from the very first shot right out of the gate, that this thing is going to be… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Ampline/Buffalo Killers – Split Single June 4, 2015 Two Cincinnati bands prove The Afghan Whigs and The National are not maybe where this Ohio/Kentucky border city’s recent musical footnote ends in a… Continue Reading
