Review: Ampline – “Passion Relapse” January 31, 2018 If you like your underground rock jagged and rugged and raw, you’d best tune in for Ampline’s Passion Relapse. Out last week on Sofaburn… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Watter – “History of the Future” October 20, 2017 Watter – a Louisville post-rock band that’s high in promise due to its parentage, if nothing else – simply fails to deliver on the… Continue Reading
PROFILE: King G and The J Krew October 10, 2017 Twenty five years ago today, the beat was born. It was the sound of young adults from Louisville – a sprawling collection of collaborators,… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Radon Chong – “I Keep On Talking To You” September 7, 2017 Captain Beefheart devotees, rejoice! Shape-shifter Don van Vliet might be deceased but his spirit – and that of his ever-evolving Magic Band – is… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Alder & Ash – “Clutched In The Maw of the World” July 21, 2017 The cello flirts lovingly with you, then roars and lunges forward, bearing its teeth. The composition in question is “A Seat Amongst God and His… Continue Reading
REVIEW: BATTLES – La Di Da Di October 8, 2015 It’s been a handful of weeks since Warp Records released BATTLES’ La Di Da Di, the experimental outfit’s third full-length LP proper, and we should… Continue Reading
REVIEW: HC-B – “Rough” July 29, 2015 It takes a great record to remind me how awkward it can be — yes yes, like dancing to architecture — to write about really good instrumental… Continue Reading
Welcome To Pittsburgh #1: Broughton’s Rules – “Anechoic Horizon” February 19, 2015 In this fine, first edition of Welcome To Pittsburgh, a new, somewhat-irregular Popdose column dictating the independent musical pulse of the Rust Belt’s cultural… Continue Reading
REVIEW: We Only Said – “Boring Pools” January 23, 2015 It’s hard to believe We Only Said operates nearly 4,100 miles outside Louisville, once- and always-home of post-rock icons Slint and Rodan. They just… Continue Reading
