Review: Le Petite Mort – “Disco” January 10, 2020 The name of the song is “A Piano In The Basement” and, though it closes the 13-track record, it’s the best point where you… Continue Reading
Review: The Glad Husbands – “Safe Places” December 20, 2019 Everything that’s muddy-minded about Safe Places – the new LP from Italian mathcore trio The Glad Husbands, out four days ago on CD and… Continue Reading
Review: Not Your Friends – “Constructing A Mental Breakdown” October 7, 2019 Constructing A Mental Breakdown, the ambitious burst of post-hardcore noise by Pittsburgh quartet Not Your Friends, is a vexing little document. First things first,… Continue Reading
Review: INUS – “Western Spaghettification” July 26, 2019 Cherish this, kids, because records like Western Spaghettification don’t come along often. The trio INUS, whose full-length debut is out Aug. 9 from San… Continue Reading
Review: Deaf Club – “Bright Side of Death” July 5, 2019 Justin Pearson’s Twitter profile used to read, appropriately, “I give good headache.” Well, San Diego record label Three One G today released a video… Continue Reading
Review: Daughters – “You Won’t Get What You Want” November 1, 2018 Daughters, never a band to play it understated, returns as a beast both transformed and reborn in the Rhode Island quartet’s first release since… Continue Reading
Review: SUZISUZI – “Microphone’s Counter Attack!!” June 5, 2018 SUZISUZI likes exclamation points. On Microphone’s Counter Attack, its new 12-track, 20-minute LP out via Pure Evil last month, the title of every song… Continue Reading
Review: Dead Cross – S/T EP May 9, 2018 Surprise, surprise, indeed. The hardcore-punk super-group Dead Cross dropped an unannounced, four-song EP on the public last week via Ipecac and, for all its… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Dead Cross – S/T August 4, 2017 Mike Patton has never fronted a band like this. The Faith No More frontman, known by most of the populace alive in the 80s… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Rolo Tomassi – “Grievances” July 15, 2015 My hard drive, in its dying breaths, killed my last review of Rolo Tomassi’s new record, Grievances. Good thing for them. It wasn’t very nice…. Continue Reading
