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
Four Up: Sister’s Subs, Surfin’ 505, Grime Sparklers And Revel Probing The Low End Sister (407 Central NW) has some seriously badass subwoofers, and a bass-tastic show on Thursday, Feb. 6, puts Sister’s subs to the test. [...] Samantha Anne Carrillo \ Feb 06, 2014 Read More (Henry Hutchinson)
