Review: Bryce Dessner & The Australian String Quartet – “Impermanence/Disintegration” April 20, 2021 Covid-19 can cloud the collective human consciousness and strip life of its context, we all intuitively know that much, right? But remember when the… Continue Reading
Review: Hawk and Dove – “Our Childhood Heroes” January 14, 2019 I wanted to start this review with the following: Our Childhood Heroes, the sophomore outing by Brooklyn collective Hawk and Dove, can best be… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Jeff Betten – “Learning It As I Go” b/w “Small Doses” November 2, 2017 Anybody as active in a scene as Misra Records head and Pittsburgh indie-rock impresario Jeff Betten has to have a soft spot for the… Continue Reading
REVIEW: The National – “Sleep Well Beast” September 15, 2017 For the better part of the last two decades, The National has been providing me and others like me with the soundtrack for our… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Ampline/Buffalo Killers – Split Single June 4, 2015 Two Cincinnati bands prove The Afghan Whigs and The National are not maybe where this Ohio/Kentucky border city’s recent musical footnote ends in a… Continue Reading
REVIEW: Mylets – “Arizona” March 13, 2015 Now, that is what the fuck I’m talking about. From the first grungy, then vaguely pixelated, guitar chords of album-opener “Trembling Hands,”Arizona, the second… 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
