Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Hoop Life, Typical System And Led Zeppelin Iii If you’re not familiar with polarizing, polyphiloprogenitive Berkeley rapper Lil B, this mixtape is not the place to start, unless you’re patiently interested [...] Alibi \ Jun 12, 2014 Read More
Festival News: Summer At Warp Speed “Here comes summer,” says the Vans Warped Tour as it rolls toward Albuquerque in tour buses filled with boisterously youthful rocanrol and hip-hop [...] August March \ Jun 12, 2014 Read More (CC BY Julian Jensen)
Four Up: ‘50S Rocanrol, Folk, Psych-Rock And Haunted House ’50S Rocanrol Gone Wild Based in El Lay, indie rock label Wild Records massages the still-beating heart of ’50s-inspired rock and roll. Helmed by Irishman Reb Kennedy, [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Jun 05, 2014 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of A U R O R A, Do It Again And Divide And Exit Ben Frost’s compositional style has been called minimalist, noise and ambient among other appellations. In fact, he borrows freely from the respective canons [...] August March \ Jun 05, 2014 Read More
Festival News: Heart Of Chamber One of the beautiful things you can do while calling this little big-sky, small-town city home: Leave your orchestral ambitions behind, and check [...] August March \ Jun 05, 2014 Read More American String Quartet (Courtesy of artist)
Music To Your Ears: I Want Kandy They rock, they shred, and they melt faces. In this regard they are tireless. However, the members of Mother Death Queen are not [...] Captain America \ May 29, 2014 Read More Mother Death Queen (Courtesy of artist)
Show Up!: Rockin’ The Mother Road Hep music and culture festival Rockabilly on the Route shines a light on Tucumcari, N.M. , for its second consecutive year. Happening June [...] August March \ May 29, 2014 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Ghost Stories, The People In Your Neighbourhood And Reachy Prints I imagine when Thom Yorke gets plenty of sleep and has a decent breakfast of bangers and mash, he follows up such moments [...] August March \ May 29, 2014 Read More
Show Up!: Enter The El Rey In the ’90s American culture continued to split into a variety of subcultures, all competing for market dominance. This trend is reflected in [...] August March \ May 22, 2014 Read More
Shows Up!: Avant-Occult Rites And Johnette’s Rough Mix Italian Avant-Occult Rites Italian experimental act Father Murphy—likely named for alleged child molester Fr. Lawrence C. Murphy or William Burroughs’ “character” in Drugstore Cowboy—began their career [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ May 22, 2014 Read More Father Murphy (Courtesy of artist)