The Eyes Have It: Dum Dum Girls Dim Dum Dum Girls Dim What, again with the obscure comparisons? Yeah, it’s the music writer’s stock-in-trade because we really can’t say much besides asinine things like “soaring [...] Captain America \ Mar 06, 2014 Read More
Four Up: Doom, Dystopian Dance, Og Surf-Punk And Wistful Melody Trailblazer Of Doom While Black Sabbath is a household name, Virginian heavy metal colleague/doom innovator Pentagram’s moniker is still mostly invoked in diehard hesher homesteads. Last [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Feb 27, 2014 Read More
Sonic Cinema: Paying Tribute To The Godfather Of New Mexico Music Al Hurricane is a force of nature. With a career spanning more than 50 years, Hurricane is not only responsible for defining much [...] August March \ Feb 27, 2014 Read More Al Hurricane (Julia Minamata juliaminamata.com)
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of St. Vincent, Morning Phase And Hotel Valentine If you’ve never listened to St. Vincent, don’t worry. This album is a calm, collected—and at times, rambunctious—pastiche of the work she’s put [...] Alibi \ Feb 27, 2014 Read More
Pixies’ Second Chance Bash: Evolving Band Hits Open Road Evolving Band Hits Open Road David Lovering wasn’t in the best shape in 2004. Granted, he’d made a name for himself as drummer of the Pixies, a group [...] Mark Lopez \ Feb 20, 2014 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Motivational Jumpsuit, Cycles Of Existential Rhyme And The Unsemble Two thousand years from now, scientists will discover a hidden cache of music from the late 20th and early 21st centuries. They’ll spend [...] August March \ Feb 20, 2014 Read More
Four Up: Venereal A/V Valentines, Breakin’ Burque, Psych-Folk And Man Man A Venereal Valentine Valentine’s Day doesn’t bring out the cloying, saccharine romantic in all of us. If you eschew Hallmark holidaze sentimentality but aren’t yet ready [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Feb 13, 2014 Read More
Aural Fixation: Such Stuff As (Sweet) Dreams Are Made On As the Bard noted, we are but players, and all the world’s a stage. But what if we are the world—as Michael Jackson [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Feb 13, 2014 Read More (Compfight cc via Kris Krug)
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Spaces, The Satanist And The Age Of Fracture The next generation of classically trained musicians is comfortable with tradition even as they fearlessly embrace the avant-garde. An example of this can [...] August March \ Feb 13, 2014 Read More
Sonic Reducer: Micro Reviews Of Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Give The People What They Want And Too Much Information Traditional music nerds claim that “real” fans have been there from day one, before the world paid attention. Yawn. So passé. Those of [...] Alibi \ Feb 06, 2014 Read More