Spook Me? Spook You!

Two days from Halloween. Seems like it was only 367 days from the last Halloween, but I guess time does fly when you’re having a stressful year, huh? What was I doing last Halloween? Well, I think we had just gone to the great BEAT Tour in Indianapolis on October 30th, and Halloween had landed […]

Another Day Closer To Dystopia(“Send In The Clowns”)

I’m imagining what a third term with DJT would be like in 2028. I’m imagining how he will still be alive in 2028, given the rantings and ravings I see nearly every day in the news with him. Constant pushing of false narratives…errr, lies(U.N., escalator, teleprompter, stolen election in 2020, they’re eating the cats and […]

Long Weekend, Under The Weather, Sad Dad Blues

Decided at the beginning of last week that I was going to treat myself to a four-day weekend. Work hasn’t been very busy, so it seemed like an opportune time to take a Thursday and Friday off and give my brain a break from the 9 to 5. I’d been itching to dig into some […]

Dressel Amorosi : House of Dolls

The musical world of Dressel Amorosi is a splendid, sinister thing. The band consists of Heinrich Dressel(Valerio Lombardozzi) and Federico Amorosi, a duo locked heavily into the world of Giallo scores, Goblin jams, and prog rock tightness. All combined together gives us a musical world of 70s Italian horror with plenty of meat on the […]

Tame Impala : Deadbeat

It felt like for a very long time that Kevin Parker could do no wrong. Tame Impala was this ever expanding collection of psychedelic rock with pop turns and Beatles-esque melodies strewn throughout acid-burnt guitar solos, to die for drum grooves, and the sense this Australian musical wunderkind who could do anything. His decade-run of […]

Tom Skinner : Kaleidoscopic Visions

Drummer/percussionist Tom Skinner started playing drums at 9. He came up in the 90s grunge era, but then quickly moved to and found inspiration from experimental jazz artists like John Zorn and Ornette Coleman. He came out of the London jazz scene and then formed experimental jazz band Sons of Kemet. From 2013 to 2022 […]

Giallo Prog Duo Dressel Amorosi Return With ‘House of Dolls’, Out 10/24; Listen To “Octagon Tower”

My first experience with the Giallo/Prog duo Dressel Amorosi was 2018s excellent DeathMetha, a hypnotic and bloody slab of sleazy disco and late night panic. I didn’t hear the album proper till it was re-released on limited edition cassette via Spun Out Of Control in 2020. It touched on classic Giallo grooves and panic-laden tension […]

“Constants Are Changing”: 20 years of Boards Of Canada’s ‘The Campfire Headphase’

20 years ago today on October 17th, 2005 Boards of Canada dropped their third full-length album The Campfire Headphase. It would take me another three years before Boards Of Canada got on my radar and would inevitably completely rewire my brain. Scottish brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin became an obsession for me, and still […]

Out With False Fall…In With Real Fall

Friday is here, finally. And with it comes the true beginning of fall weather. We’ve had a few days here and there of mild temps -including upper 50s and low 60s for highs- but those temps were short-lived. We’d head back up into the upper 70s and 80s with all the humidity you could ever […]

Jay Som : Belong

Melina Mae Cortez Duterte, aka Jay Som, has a very distinct sound to her music. At times sparse, other times big fuzzed-out guitars, Jay Som makes indie rock that can spend equal time in big pop production and also low key and lo-fi. Her official debut as Jay Som, 2017’s Everybody Works was catchy radio-ready […]