Concert Review: Melvins Live In Pittsburgh 10-5-19
Melvins know no years. They’re just too fucking good to be bothered with them. So, seeing the trio, now nearing its fifth (!) decade in existence, destroy a stage live…
Review: Not Your Friends – “Constructing A Mental Breakdown”
Constructing A Mental Breakdown, the ambitious burst of post-hardcore noise by Pittsburgh quartet Not Your Friends, is a vexing little document. First things first, it must be said that, when…
Review – Doug Walker, The Nostalgia Critic, “Nostalgia Critic’s The Wall”
Pink Floyd is not and should not be immune to criticism. Nonetheless, this does not pass muster.
Review: DANA – “GLowing Auras & Black Money”
The cover for Glowing Auras & Black Money, the sophomore outing from Ohio art-punk/mostly punk outfit DANA, is all wrong. The image, which features a glossy illustration of a woman’s…
Review: Tender Mercy – “War Within”
Under the moniker Tender Mercy, musician Mark Kramer creates eerie and unnerving skeletons of songs out of little more than a few carefully plucked notes on guitar, some semi-whispered vocals…
Review – The New Pornographers, “In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights”
If we are lucky, we'll listen back in ten or twenty years and smirk about its undercurrent of disappointment.
Review: Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “BPB Mix Tape Vol. 5”
Any musician who’s released 25 studio LPs (did I count that right?) must bear a treasure trove of outtakes and demos, amirite? But Will Oldham always has been more than…
ALBUM REVIEW: CHRIS STAMEY, “New Songs For The 20th Century”
For someone who has carved out his niche creating pop music with melodically angular twists, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that for his newest release, Chris Stamey would devise…
Review: Mike Patton and Jean-Claude Vannier – “Corpse Flower”
I first heard vocal shape-shifter Mike Patton’s collaborate with John Erik Kaada, the Norwegian composer, back in 2004. It was, even in the light of a performer known for not…
Singles Bar: Weezer, “The End Of The Game”
The supposed simple charms of "The End Of The Game" just don't hang in there.
Review: Kal Marks – “Let The Shit House Burn Down”
Now, I’m not always prone to deflect a kind remark when something better comes along, but, listen listen, follow my logic here. At the end of the month, Exploding In…
Review: Taylor Swift, “Lover”
She may never be America's Sweetheart, but Lover at least signals a desire to move away from tabloid sensationalism into other areas.