Review: TRVSS – “Instant Drugs” November 5, 2021 The ascendant noise-rock trio TRVSS has a potent little drug ditty percolating that’s about to harsh your mellow. Titled (yes, appropriately) “Instant Drugs,” the… Continue Reading
Review: Exhalants – “Atonement” September 21, 2020 This year has become a Groundhogs Day of Nightly News shitshows in much of the Western world, but 2020 (we’ll give it this much)… Continue Reading
Review: TRVSS – “New Distances” July 30, 2020 Looking for noise-rock to cut through the film of dusty ear-drums like a straight razor? Well, TRVSS has your number. The trio cuts through… Continue Reading
Profile: TRVSS (2020) July 28, 2020 The new TRVSS song “Malaria” is as infectious as its title indicates. Of course, it falls seven songs into the trio’s second LP –… Continue Reading
Review: Same – “Plastic Western” May 19, 2020 SAME, the post-something quartet with the un-Google-able name, is from southwestern Pennsylvania, the duly coined Paris of Appalachia, but not entirely of the place. Now, Pittsburgh… Continue Reading
Feature: Bandcamp in the COVID-19 Era May 1, 2020 Bandcamp is a drug for music lovers and knowing that your support directly buttresses the performers’ work – on May 1, mind you, without… Continue Reading
Profile: Buildings/Bummer and Microwaves/TRVSS February 26, 2020 Noise-rock – NOUN – A type of rock music characterized by the use of dissonance or inharmonious noise, especially loud distorted guitar, amplifier noise, feedback, etc…. Continue Reading
MusicTAP Record of the Year (2019) December 30, 2019 It’s an ugly, vicious thing for an ugly, vicious year. And, yeah, there might be bigger chart-toppers from 2019 or “better” market-researched deep-cuts out… Continue Reading
Feature: Pittsburgh Record of the Year (2019) December 20, 2019 Drumroll. Drumroll, please. I submit for your consideration, dear reader, my selections for Pittsburgh record of the year – two brilliant debut offerings on… Continue Reading
Profile: TRVSS (2019) November 12, 2019 There are shreds of feedback and, waiting, waiting, waiting, also an air of anticipation as members of Pittsburgh trio TRVSS wait for WRCT DJ… Continue Reading
