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
Louisville-Born, Brooklyn-Based — PROFILE: David Grubbs (2006) January 19, 2017 The classroom is empty, the students more than an hour away, but David Grubbs sits behind a console in an unassuming Brooklyn College radio… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Papa M – “Highway Songs” January 18, 2017 At first blush, Papa M’s Highway Songs LP is a mess or, at best perhaps, unbalanced. But first blushes, like a journalist’s first drafts… 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
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
PROFILE: Rachel Grimes (2014) December 22, 2014 Rachel Grimes knew how to play the piano before she learned to walk. “My dad and grandmother played, so I was always sitting beside… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Bedhead – “Bedhead: 1992-1998” Boxed Set November 18, 2014 The single guitar note, all fragile and frosted glass, falls on the foot of the kick drum. And then, as the notes continue to… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Singer’s Grave A Sea of Tongues November 13, 2014 Singer-songwriter Will Oldham, that old Palace ring-leader turned “Prince,” just has released a new collection of emotive acoustics titled Singer’s Grave A Sea of… Continue Reading
PROFILE: David Grubbs of Squirrel Bait November 6, 2014 Before Louisville was associated with Palace, though after, I suppose, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled its seedy decadence during the Derby, there was Squirrel Bait, a… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Slint – “Spiderland: Remastered” November 6, 2014 Steve Albini once infamously offered up “ten fucking stars” in Melody Maker to the swansong LP of a then-unknown Louisville quartet named Slint. Twenty… Continue Reading
