I’ve said this before but there are certain records that I’m so into that I find it hard to articulate properly within these pages so, more often than not, those records remain as an unfinished draft or at least saved for a year end list. Then there are those that [...]
It’s mind boggling to me to hear a record like White Noise Owl’s debut full-length, Condition Critical, think of how much work was put into it and then have it more or less dumped on the unsuspecting masses with barely a peep of promotion. But these are strange times we [...]
Normally when I go into a review of something new from Child Bite I like to have a tab open with synonyms ready for terms like “frenetic” and “cacophony” because, in most cases, that’s the kind of music fans get from the Detroit outfit. But lo and behold, here we [...]
Late the other night I started in with this stream of consciousness intro to this review where I was going to talk about my personal history with Rob Potylo. From the time a former friend got in trouble at work for playing “I Put A Baby In You” by his [...]
We looooooove supporting local artists whenever we can. We especially love supporting local artists when they make music as incendiary as BEDTIMEMAGIC do. On Pillow Talk, out on November 8th, the Boston noiseniks concoct an opus that furthers their sound and statement while simultaneously bludgeoning as many earholes as (in)humanly [...]
Reviewing the latest from San Francisco’s Down and Outlaws is a bittersweet ordeal. On the one hand, there’s this record that epitomizes the heart and soul of Desert and Garage Rawk but on the other, it looks to also mark a coda to a decade long career as the quartet [...]
