Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Album Review: Etienne Charles - Gullah Roots

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Well, I'm glad that I picked up Gullah Roots from an all-star jazz man, Etienne Charles, as it has confirmed an aspect of my childhood...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

Album Review: Creeping Death - Boundless Domain

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Texas, man, it's a whole different kind of place. While the Midwest is still sheltering itself from the last blizzardly breaths of winte...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Album Review: Kadavar - Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin

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Do you know what it's like to split your face like a dinner plate and serve the hot, fresh sponge cake of your reverie as it oozes out o...
Sunday, April 12, 2026

Album Review: Plax - Clean Feeling

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An Austin-based, self-described "outsider" punk band, Plax is comprised of seasoned area punks who cut their teeth playing in loca...
Saturday, April 11, 2026

Album Review: Pacifica - In Your Face!

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The story of the band Pacifica- the music duo, not the city in California, or the mean girl from Gravity Falls-  is all about the global rea...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

Album Review: Dreadnought - The Endless

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Big fan of the cover art for this one. Even bigger fan of the fact that the music matches the cover in its majesty and complexity. The Endl...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Interview: Michael Torres of Beers with Bands

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It might shock some of you all to learn this, but I almost never listen to music-related podcasts, and I'm specifically averse to artis...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Album Review: Castle - Evil Remains

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 Wayward, witchy, doom metal from San Francisco that draws in equal part from occult preoccupations of proto-metallers Coven as it does croo...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Interview: Cheem

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Photo by Abby Clare Cheem may be the best band in the world. There really isn't even a contest. Hardworking, original, and friendly af, ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Album Review: Monolord - Your Time To Shine

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Monolord is definitely laying it on a little thick with the cover and title here— Your Time to Shine?  A lifeless lepus, wreathed with flowe...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Album Review: 紅髮少年殺人事件 - Brutal Girl Dillusion

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紅髮少年殺人事件* isn't a paint-by-numbers Girl homage, at least not anymore, but there is a faint echo of laudation that resonates with the ve...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Album Review: Beastmaker - Inside The Skull

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Wwwaaaahhhhhhhhhh Beastmaker breaks my heart. The burly doom metal out of Fresno, CA, was briefly euthanized in 2019 to fill the spiritual v...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Album Review: canekzapata - the consensus isn't dead, it just smells jazzy

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One of the most irritating things dimwits attempting to sound intelligent will do is reduce some facet of the human subject down to a rudim...
Friday, March 6, 2026

Interview: Cocojoey

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Born on a whim and sailing through tragedy, Chicago's experimental sound cub and maximalist melodist Cocojoey hangs off the ledge of inf...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Album Review: Booze Control - Forgotten Lands

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March is a special month for me,* so I'm popping the tab on it with Germany's NWOBHM-inspired bruisers Booze Control and taking a lo...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Album Review: fallingwithscissors - the death and birth of an angel

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Young'uns are calling fallingwithscissors's second EP  the death and birth of an angel  "breakcore"... Now, I'm in the...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Album Review: No Soy Bill Murray - Error, Fatal Inferno

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No Soy Bill Murray implies the existence of a "Soy" Bill Murray, much to the delight of some sarcasm-loving vegans, I'm sure....
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Album Review: Fulu Miziki - Mokano EP

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Uganda's favorite sonic salvagers Fulu Miziki already had a recognized and well-received album under their upcycled, polyurethane waist ...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Album Review: Summer Cannibals - Can't Tell Me No

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I never considered Summer Cannibals to be one of the essential acts of the late great garage rock boom of the early '10s, but they alway...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Album Review: Coffret De Bijoux - My Limbs Are Not Mine

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Of all the tattered flesh shrouds and spectral shades she slips through, Coffret de Bijoux appears to be maturing into Alice Simard's m...
Friday, February 6, 2026

Album Review: Ikebe Shakedown - Kings Left Behind

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Thrones are toppled, kingdoms laid to waste, histories are reduced to sand, and all roads lead to ruin... but not if you're Ikebe Shaked...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Album Review: DJ Ramon Sucesso - Sexta dos Crias 2.0

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Democratic in origin, flexible but dictatorial in constitution, DJ Ramon Sucesso's second LP is a direct sequel to 2023's Sexta dos ...