Andre Costello and The Cool Minors – “Brighter Than Before” October 4, 2019 Fifty words on Andre Costello and The Cool Minors new one-song shot. Minus those, wise guy. Catchy indie pop, out Oct. 2, with all… Continue Reading
Profile: Beach Blanket Blowout (2019) August 7, 2019 Any musician’s urge to worship at the altar of Dick Dale has to start somewhere. For Kevin Koch, drummer for Los Vampiros Amarillos, the… 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: Aaron Myers-Brooks – “Energetic Bursts” July 10, 2019 Guitarist-composer Aaron Myers-Brooks constructs mathy, even obtuse, metal for listeners who appreciate the genre’s technical virtuosity but take issue with its faux-evil strutting and… Continue Reading
Feature: Crafted Sounds Releases “Bridges” April 17, 2019 Connor Murray turned 21 on April 13, but he didn’t celebrate in the usual way. Yes, there were the obligatory drinks at midnight but,… Continue Reading
Review: Night Vapor – “1,000 Miles of Mud” December 19, 2018 “Dirtminer,” and its inherent sense of grime and mire and dischord, is the template. The opening song on Night Vapor’s 1,000 Miles of Mud — out… 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: Cousin Boneless – “Possession” June 1, 2018 When they talked about making a transformation, they were talking about an ALL CAPS TRANSFORMATION. On last year’s Revel In The Rubble, the final installment… Continue Reading
Review: Same – “Is Midnight” April 12, 2018 Pittsburgh alt/indie quartet Same has released the digital-only single “Is Midnight” and the surprising thing about it isn’t its glassy-eyed beauty, but how different… Continue Reading
Review: The Lampshades – “Astrology” March 21, 2018 The Lampshades, a trio of Pittsburgh-by-way-of-Altoona ne’er-do-wells, is nothing if not ambitious. It hasn’t always entirely been this way. Sunshine, its 2005 debut, was… Continue Reading
