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
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
Review: Barlow – “In A Stranger’s Car” (Reissue) January 18, 2018 Lo-fi fuzz-pop – think The Cure coalescing around the guitars of Les Thugs – is the name of the game on In A Stranger’s Car,… Continue Reading
Review: Blankets For Laura – “Orange” EP December 29, 2017 Thank you, Shay Park. While much of the Pittsburgh underground is awaiting the debut EP from Soda Club, the local dream-pop quartet Park fronts… Continue Reading
Review: Expires – “Fake Sigils” December 22, 2017 Pittsburgh has never been known, particularly, as a hub for post-rock, that fluid genre of “music for people who read books” that flirts with… Continue Reading
Review: Denzell – “Tour Tape” EP December 18, 2017 I don’t need some punk-rock band to hand over the verdict that, yeah, things are pretty bleak. Even if the Pussy-Grabber-In-Chief weren’t trying to run the… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Aaron Myers-Brooks – “Conduits” September 20, 2017 Experimental guitarist Aaron Myers-Brooks, on loan from Pittsburgh post-metal outfit Night Vapor, slants toward the “avant” in avant-jazz on Conduits, the third EP he has self-released in… 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
