Sunday, April 30, 2023

Interview: Gabe Noel

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I'm slowly coming to terms with what AI will mean for music. Both its benefits, in making and enjoying music, but also what it will mean...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Album Review: Ohma - Between All Things

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I am drawn like a hummingbird to the Ohma's "Worlds Within Worlds." It's the second song off their 2022 debut Between All ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Album Review: Scree - Jasmine On A Night In July

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I heard recently that there was a period in human history where there was no separation between poetry and music. They were indistinguishabl...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Album Review: Kata Phore - Virevolte

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Virevolte (which I think translates from French to English as "Twirls" [which makes sense when looking at the cover]) is an uplift...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Album Review: Party Dozen - The Real Work

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Party Dozen make an unbelievable racket. I don't mean that in any pejorative sense, but I do mean it literally. I'm bewildered by wh...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Album Review: Ree-Vo - All Welcome On Planet Ree​-​Vo

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Ree-Vo have engineered a world that perfectly reflects a certain vision and method towards electronic dance music and hip hop on their lates...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Album Review: Hysterical Love Project - Lashes

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Lashes seem like the staging ground for a diseasing act. Only one where the person you think you are dematerialized and the person you actua...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Album Review: Nutrients - Different Bridges

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The title "House Fire Painting" sums up a lot of what Toronto-based funk-pop group Nutrients are about on their LP  Different Brid...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Interview: Fire-Toolz

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Had my second conversation with Angel Marcloid for CHIRP Radio's Artist Interview Series last week and the episode is now live (this is ...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Album Review: The Laughing Chimes - Zoo Avenue EP

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I was taken by surprise by The Laughing Chime's Zoo Avenue EP . I don't always go for jangly, retro indie rock, but I dig what these...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Album Review: Generacion Suicida - Regeneracion

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It's funny to me that I didn't realize how much I associated the "Killed By Death" style of punk with South and Central Am...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Album Review: Narrow Head - Moments of Clarity

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We all enjoy moments of clarity, however brief. Instances where solutions present themselves, or a previously obstructed path becomes clear....
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Album Review: Nicholas Merz - American Classic

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  What other name could you give an album like this other than American Classic ? It's an impossible question to answer. Nothing anchors...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Interview: Screaming Females

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Image by Krista Schlueter Screaming Females was probably my favorite band at one time. The first time I saw them at a house show in Wisconsi...

Album Review: Seasoning - The Condensation

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Singer and songwriter Lachlan Buckle gives away the origins of his current project in two ways... that are really just one way (Hint, it...

Album Review: Noah - Noire

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Noire is a collection of loose songs from Tokyo electronic R'nB artist Noah that have been tucked under her bed, laying pensive under a ...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Metal Monday: Dryad, Hellion, Bones & Witch Vomit

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It's another Monday. A simple, terrible, miracle. A Monday. Time to get motivated for another week of grueling, meaningless effort as a ...
Sunday, April 2, 2023

Album Review: Jared Mattson - Peanut

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A din of reverberation swells slightly in your ear cavity. It expands like a balloon until it can't contain its surging interior, and th...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Interview: Doom Flower

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Image by Collin Bunting Had a delightful check-in with Chicago band Doom Flower this week for the CHIRP Radio podcast. I got to talk with Bo...

Album Review: Why Bother? - A City of Unsolved Miseries

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Midwest punks Why Bother? are strangely proud to be from Mason City, Iowa. Proud enough, in fact, to chronicle the small landlocked town...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Album Review: MAMA - Speed Trap

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I've been sitting on this review for a while. Not sure why. When Speed Trap dropped back in 2014 I must have listened to it close to a ...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Album Review: Booze Radly - Lose, Badly

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I first became aware of Booze Radly back in 2020. I noticed that their name came up in conversations concerning a number of bands I was foll...
Monday, March 27, 2023

Album Review: Give Me Monaco - Luminance EP

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Luminance  is the second of two EPs released by Oxford producer Give Me Monaco, both of which span the cleft between 2022 and 2023. This mos...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Album Review: Kolb - Tyrannical Vibes

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Mike Kolb's debut LP as, what else, Kolb , is actually, meaningfully, and intentionally, unassuming.  Tyrannical Vibes was r ecorded and...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Album Review: NEOCONS - EP

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With the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War recently having passed, I'm sure many of us have found ourselves in a reflective mood. Recalli...