Review: Slint – “Breadcrumb Trail” b/w “Good Morning, Captain” February 12, 2021 It will take a pair or two of solid elephant’s ears to hear the microscopic distinctions between Slint‘s Spiderland, post-rock’s mighty Rosetta Stone, and the 1990… Continue Reading
Feature: Holy Hell – “Very Soon, and In Pleasant Company” is 20! February 8, 2021 In a word, precision. The three years that separate Rodan’s Rusty (1994) from the Shipping News debut Save Everything (1997) gave Jeff Mueller and Jason Noble, the Louisville-bred… Continue Reading
Review: TJO – “Songs for Peacock” July 14, 2020 Memory is an illusion, a construction both flimsy and fluctuating that you can’t see with your eyes, much less touch with your hands. We… Continue Reading
Review: WiiRMZ – “Faster Cheaper” July 8, 2020 The joyfully bombastic quartet WiiRMZ hail from the same city that defined (and arguably invented) post-rock in the 1990s with bands such as Slint and Rodan…. Continue Reading
Review: Pray For Sound – “Waves” November 6, 2019 Sorry, I don’t dig on proselytizing. So, okay I’m biased. And when I heard, via advance PR notes, that the quartet Pray For Sound… Continue Reading
Review: Rodan – “The Hat Factory ’93” April 5, 2019 If Rodan’s Rusty is the butterfly on its ripe-peach-hued cover, the newly released ’93 recordings are the budding chrysalis. And they are something to… Continue Reading
Review: Ilyas Ahmed – “Closer To Stranger” February 15, 2018 How this one flew under the radar is just beyond me. Released Jan. 26 by MIE Music, Ilyas Ahmed’s Closer To Stranger is a… Continue Reading
REVIEW: CALYX – “For To, Oh” EP November 2, 2017 Contrary to the imagination of its title, CALYX’s Four To, Oh is not a testament to weed-fueled jam-band mythos or, this being Pittsburgh, a… 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: Heron – “You Are Here Now” May 16, 2017 To hear some good reverb-drenched post-rock on the radio dial or the event horizon, you can do a heck of a lot worse than… Continue Reading
