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
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: Aaron Myers-Brooks – “Multilinear Smatterings” May 29, 2018 Pittsburgh-based guitarrorist Aaron Myers-Brooks summons up precision-lined metal shredding and keyboard-thrusted polyrhythms on his excellent, new one-man/one-song instrumental single, “Multilinear Smattering,” out last week… 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: Pachyderm – “Verge” March 27, 2018 Pachyderm’s turning out to be a tough band to pin down. While the obtuse single the group dropped in January, the aptly titled “I’m… 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
Review: Altar Boy – S/T March 15, 2018 Pittsburgh label Crafted Sounds recently Tweeted out the following in response to a request to drink PBR with members of Altar Boy, a group… Continue Reading
Video Premiere: The Lampshades – “Civilization and its Discontents” March 12, 2018 It starts with a detuned piano and ends with the lonely shaking of maracas, an epic and loose-limbed nugget titled “Civilization and its Discontents.”… Continue Reading
Review: Painted Eyes – “Demo 2018” March 9, 2018 Talk about modesty. The Pittsburgh trio Painted Eyes quietly dropped its debut release, the appropriately titled Demo 2018, on Bandcamp Wednesday, not making a… 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
