Review: Night Vapor – “1,000 Miles of Mud”
“Dirtminer,” and its inherent sense of grime and mire and dischord, is the template. The opening song on Night Vapor’s 1,000 Miles of Mud — out last week via Corpse…
ALBUM REVIEW: “3 X 4”, THE BANGLES/THE DREAM SYNDICATE/THE THREE O’CLOCK/RAIN PARADE
I’ve seen and heard it said in a few places that this is the “sort of sequel” to 1984’s legendary Rainy Day. If you’re not familiar with it, Rainy Day…
Album Review: Rush, “Hemispheres 40th Anniversary Edition”
Celebrating Rush's most overlooked final big prog statement piece, Hemispheres.
Review: Tenchio – “Bedroom Chaos of The Inner Noodle”
Manuel Tenchio, who often just goes by the nom-de-guerre Tenchio, is a Uruguayan teenage guitar whiz who plays a kind of mutant math-thrash with reckless abandon. And if his second…
Review: To touch the milky way – Black Tape For A Blue Girl
For well over thirty years, the evocatively named Black Tape For A Blue Girl project, helmed by Projekt label owner, Sam Rosenthal, has produced strong and ethereally beautiful songs and…
Vinyl Review: Proxy by The Tangent
The Tangent just keep doing it—every new release is the new best album of their 15 year career. In a 2018 that’s already provided fans with Tangekanic’s live Hotel Cantaffordit…
LP Review: Calexico – “The Black Light: 20th Anniversary Edition”
I don’t know if I’m old but this didn’t seem that long ago. And only old people say that. It was 1999, maybe 2000, apparently. The venue was Maxwell’s, an…
Review: Life Goes On – Lovespirals
With two separate and distinct parts of a band once known as Love Spirals Downward, and now known as Lovespirals, the band spearheaded by Ryan Lum, has flowed neatly from…
Album Review: Various Artists, “White Lace and Promises: The Songs of Paul Williams”
You know Paul Williams. Depending on what generation you hail from, you may not know that you know Paul Williams, but trust me. You do. You may know him as…
REISSUE REVIEW: THE POSIES, “Amazing Disgrace”
Omnivore Recordings continue with their campaign of Posies reissues and conclude with the last album released by the band on Geffen/DGC, 1996’s Amazing Disgrace. One listen will tell you that…
Review: Redemption (EP) – The Lost Patrol
To properly give The Lost Patrol their proper respect, it’s important to begin with their sound. There is a definite Cocteau Twins influence in their music. But it is their…