Since their eponymous and historic 1976 debut, The Ramones had livened up music with an intended punk flavor indicative of their NYC locale. From that great album and through the…
Arriving in 1983, the band The Flaming Lips was already an anachronism, unapologetically psychedelic, and prone to agitating against the mainstream even as it longingly gave it some side-eye. That…
Scott Morgan doesn’t listen to his work as Loscil after it’s been released. The Canadian avant-ambient sound-sculptor has little concrete sense of his discography. But, before the recordings are available…
How one misheard song title led to a hit that sounded nothing like the mistaken song.
There’s not very much that’s astounding about “Listen,” the one-song debut from Reno soul quartet MELK, released Tuesday on streaming services. That is, there’s not very much that’s astounding about…
Jethro Tull is representative of classic ProgRock as much as Yes or even ELP. In their own delivery, Jethro Tull performed well throughout a richly changing musical landscape, never compromising…
For me, Iggy Pop helps to define the magic and power, the illusion and fable, and the merge of Rock and Roll. Any of his performances are more powerful than…
Black Sabbath certainly – and heavily – contributed to the metal style that was taken to innumerable styles and levels after them. Using society, politics (and their numerous wars), and…
Another new signing from Marty Scott’s legendary Jem Records, The Gold Needles, who hail from Hull, U.K., are arbiters of 60’s-influenced psychedelic/power-pop prove with an album that one can automatically…
After two profound records, Mystery Keeps You (2008) and House of Doors (2010), musician Amy Petty seemed to fall off the face of the earth. Aside from a very well-crafted…
Good luck on being more extreme than that, every other metal band in the world.
Guitarist-composer Aaron Myers-Brooks constructs mathy, even obtuse, metal for listeners who appreciate the genre’s technical virtuosity but take issue with its faux-evil strutting and testosterone-jacked theatricality. There you have it.…