Friday, October 10, 2025

Interview: Oliver Ghoul

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                                   Gather 'round, boils and ghouls! It's time to get your freak on and shake the dust from those old...
Thursday, October 9, 2025

Album Review: Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band - Sonbonbela

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  Even in the shadow of death, there is the presence of light, for what casts the shadow if not the blazing facticity of the sun, the giver ...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Album Review: Gaahls WYRD - Braiding The Stories

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At the time of this writing, with God's blessing*, you may purchase a copy of Gaahls WYRD's second LP Braiding The Stories , on viny...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Album Review: Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore - After Caroline

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Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore is the solo outlet of, you guessed it, Jason Stein- respected local bass clarinetist and the older broth...
Thursday, October 2, 2025

Album Review: (T-T)b - Beautiful Extension Cord

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Man, sometimes I wish CMJ were still around. When I worked at my college radio station, I genuinely looked forward to having their New Music...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Album Review: No Men - DEAR GOD, BRING THE DOOM

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Outing myself today as a No Men respector. There, I said it. Let it be known that I respect No Men... the band. Specifically, the band No Me...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Interview: Superdestroyer x Phonewithchords

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Two dudes from different worlds meet in the cosmic dustbin of the internet and emerge carrying a brilliant ball of concentrated hope and bur...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Album Review: Seabomb - Dolphin Chamber

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Dolphins! Man's steady, loyal, and aquatic companion, who has been with us and been watching over humanity for as long as we as a specie...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Album Review: SickOnes - Find Energy

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Man, SickOnes... it almost makes me nauseous thinking about what could have been. The UK three-man (+ one lady) crew came up in that weird ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Album Review: Innumerable Forms - Pain Effulgence

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Innumerable Forms is the fetid brain loogie of Jon DeTore, who, along with pals Jensen Ward of Iron Lung, Chris Ulsh of Mammothgrinder, and ...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Album Review: Trust Fall - You Can Glow In The Dark

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Trust Fall started out as the big solo leap of Erica Leshon, resident of Olympia, WA, and member of a diverse (and now mostly dormant) panth...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Album Review: Bombardement - Dans La Fournaise

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Bombardement is exactly what they sound like they are... which is a freaking wave of harsh, stray particulates which coheres into a pelting ...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

Album Review: Kurayamisaka - Kimi wo omotte iru

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Japanese alt pop/rock group Kurayamisaka is a band that doesn't spend that much time looking in the rearview mirror. Their most recent s...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Album Review: Femtanyl - Reactor

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I'm going to drop a tl;dr here and just say that I think Femtanyl's Reactor EP is pretty freakin' great. If that's all you ...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Album Review: Black Road - Witch of the Future

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Keeping my zone chill and skuzzy with some fuzzed-out, slow-burn doom metal out of Chicago. Witch of the Future is the debut LP from Black ...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

Album Review: Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer

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Oh boy, do I love junk! Couldn't live without it. Wouldn't be me without it. If you ever see a pair of eyes darting rapidly back and...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Album Review: Lecherous Gaze - One Fifteen

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Sweet shit sizzling on a hot plate—Lecherous Gaze were on some WILD junk when they made One Fifteen . It's likely their last record (alt...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Interview: We're Trying Records

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Life is a struggle. If you're not trying, you're dying. And if you're Jordan of We're Trying Records, then you're thrivi...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Album Review: SARN - i'm am in dark places

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Sometimes, the memories of growing up in the Midwest come flooding back in a vibrant rush, and it’s difficult to perceive why any singular p...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Album Review: Feral Ohms - S/T

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Feral Ohms is a gritty, unhousebroken rock ‘n/'r roll presage from Oakland, CA, and side hustle of Comets on Fire’s vocalist/ guitarist ...
Friday, August 8, 2025

Album Review: Nanoray - Manzai

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I've never been one for game shows. They're mostly the type of entertainment that you watch passively (unless you're a real frea...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Album Review: Black Salvation - Uncertainty is Bliss

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Dark, heavy, seedy psychedelic rock out of Leipzig Germany. Uncertainty is Bliss is the Relapse Records debut of Black Salvation, the contro...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Album Review: Jah9 - Note To Self

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Jah9 is a Jamaican singer, blessed to be known by friends and family as Janine Elizabeth Cunningham. Her style has been described- by hersel...
Saturday, August 2, 2025

Album Review: Never Dull - Secret Stash Collection I & II

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  It's one thing to put on a great performance, but to see the absolute potential of that performance is something else entirely- it tak...
Friday, August 1, 2025

Album Review: CarCrashPoolParty - CarCrashPoolParty EP

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CarCrashPoolParty... crashing a pool party with your car... it honestly sounds like the most John Hughes name a band can have... without bei...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Album Review: Faraway Plants - Faraway Plants

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Faraway Plants is a local Chicago jazz trio that primarily plays spaces like the Whistler and Hungry Brain. Their music has mainly been impr...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Album Review: Victims Family & Nasalrod in the Modern Meatspace

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It's the Bush era again. Don't ask me how we got here. We wouldn't be if I had my druthers. This wasn't my call, but here we...