Friday, June 6, 2025

Album Review: Bereft - Lands

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Blackened sludge metal out of Madison, WI to give voice to a once sacred, now defiled and ravaged terrain, Bereft play a deeply atmospheric ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Album Review: Lowe Cellar - TAGU

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I always appreciate it when post-hardcore bands approach each song like it's an abstract art piece, and that's where I think Seattle...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Album Review: Batuqueiros e Sua Gente with Douglas Germano - Partido Alto

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It's getting to feel more and more like summer in my zone of the Midwest, and it's got me in the mood for some samba- particularly s...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Album Review: Cime - The Cime Interdisciplinary Music Ensemble

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When it comes to punk-jazz hybrids, the obvious and best example that comes to mind is Naked City. However, I wouldn't make this compari...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Album Review: Benjamin Lee Farley - The Stalker

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This may be one of the most underground artists I've written about.* Benjamin has a lot going on, mostly in his head,**  allowing his na...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Album Review: Pink Must - Pink Must

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I think the guitar line from the opening track "Morphe Sun" off Pink Must's self-titled LP rearranged my DNA somehow. I've...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Album Review: Junkbreed - Cheap Composure

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Portugal's Junkbreed intrigued me when I encountered them back in '21 when their debut Music for Cool Kids dropped in my lap while ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Album Review: fangface - thank your lucky stars

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Breaking: Florida duo from Gainesville decode that city's decades-deep tradition of cranking out catchy garage rock and pop-punk and re-...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Album Review: Harper Kill - A Taste of Harper Kill

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Harper Kill Ichiban! Their debut EP,  A Taste of ..., first-press you could even say, is as smooth and refreshing as they come. Hailing from...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Album Review: Asian Glow - 11100011

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I had initially resisted listening to Asian Glow until this year, when the hype became essentially unavoidable. The main reason was their na...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Interview: Andy Loebs

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Andy Loebs is the first goocore artist I've interviewed for this blog's podcast (but hopefully not the last). I'm very smitten b...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Album Review: The Sword - Used Future

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Bluesy, denim-shrouded, intergalactic mercenaries The Sword are on a planet-hopping crusade to boldly go where many machismo rockers the li...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Album Review: Alsarah & the Nubatones - Seasons of the Road

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Alsarah & the Nubatones has been around for more than 10 years, elegantly matching North African music with a lively cross-stitching of ...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Album Review: Jr. Thomas & The Volcanos - Rockstone

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Since reviewing JER's Bothered / Unbothered earlier this year, I've dispelled the curse of nerves that had been put up to barricad...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Album Review: No Problemo! - Year Of The Frog

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More Michicagn emo! That's what I need at the moment, and No Problemo! (out of Lansing), wet behind the ears, and with a Spanish 101 und...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

Album Review: Provoker - Dark Angel EP

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Provoker is such a strange creature to me. The LA group replicates cyber-punk aesthetics to package downtempo pop and R'nB, which always...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Album Review: JJ Sweetheart - Big Things

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Time for some wholesome woodland jams, from a guy who lives in *checks browser tab* ... Minneapolis! .... I mean, suuuuuure... why the hell ...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Album Review: Sacred Monster - Worship the Weird

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Worship the Weird  is the debut album* from Chicago doom metal band, Sacred Monster (from 2019, a very popular year for rehashing stalwart ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Album Review: Dött ljus - Bottna

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Bottna is the Slowcraft Records debut of Stockholm electronic duo Johan Kisro and Petter Lindhagen, known to us as Dött ljus (if you know an...

Interview: Pete Min of Colorfield Records

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I've been a fan of Pete's work with artists since the start of this blog. His work with Colorfield Records is completely in line wit...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Album Review: WOW - Come La Notte

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Shadowy cinematic psychedelic pop out of Italy, that could have been written for a David Lynch film with ambitions for mainstream crossover ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Interview: ESP Mayhem

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Deploying a sonic barrage of culture-jamming ballistics from the savanna of perdition that is Neo-Melbourne, ESP Mayhem is the EVP of the gh...