Review: Brainiac – “Attic Tapes” June 24, 2021 Musical polymath Tim Taylor shuffled off this mortal coil way back on May 23, 1997, killed in a car crash in his 30th year of… Continue Reading
Review: Nonagon – “They Birds” March 10, 2021 Most bands release debut LPs in their infancy. Well, not Nonagon. The Chicago trio, formed around 2004, initially struck their defiant poses on a… Continue Reading
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: Rediscover “The For Carnation” December 1, 2020 “Now when I fall to earth, I hear applause/ I love to hear applause,” Brian McMahan sings, suggesting various readings, on “Emp. Man’s Blues,”… Continue Reading
Profile: Steve Albini (2020) June 10, 2020 Eight hours each way. That’s how long Tim Midyett and his friends drove to see Big Black play live in Seattle in 1987. Archaeological… Continue Reading
Review: Monotrope – “Immutable Future” November 20, 2019 Monotrope’s new record is a wondrously dense thatch of black thorns and I love it for that. In case you’re just joining the show,… Continue Reading
Review: DANA – “Glowing Auras & Black Money” October 2, 2019 The cover for Glowing Auras & Black Money, the sophomore outing from Ohio art-punk/mostly punk outfit DANA, is all wrong. The image, which features… Continue Reading
Profile: Damon Che (2019) September 2, 2019 At the time, everybody in Pittsburgh knew Damon Che. But few really knew him. Che, who now lives an uneventful life in the Amish… Continue Reading
Review: Calexico – “The Black Light: 20th Anniversary Edition” November 26, 2018 I don’t know if I’m old but this didn’t seem that long ago. And only old people say that. It was 1999, maybe 2000,… Continue Reading
Review: Nonagon – “Tuck The Long Tail Under” April 11, 2018 Nonagon sound positively, well, positive on “Tuck The Long Tail Under,” its offering from a new split seven-inch with Cincinnati’s Knife The Symphony out… Continue Reading
