Mac Demarco : Guitar

It’s been 6 years since Mac Demarco released a proper studio album(and no, 2023s Five Easy Hot Dogs doesn’t count.) The Canadian weirdo/slacker/multi-instrumentalist’s last proper album was 2019s Here Comes The Cowboy, an album that felt lacking when compared to the previous three LPs. This Old Dog from 2017 was his most promising, showing the […]

The Hives : The Hives Forever Forever The Hives

There aren’t many bands left from that early 2000s post-punk/indie rock explosion that transpired in New York. The bratty, self-aware, and indifferent music scene that birthed The Strokes, Jonathan Fire*Eater, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Interpol. In fact, none of those aforementioned bands exist in any sort of revered capacity. If they are making albums still […]

Angela Winter : Forbidden Questions In Space

There’s something both beautiful and foreboding listening to the new long player by ambient/electronic artist Angela Winter. There’s a persistent hum that emanates throughout her Past Inside The Present debut titled Forbidden Questions In Space that affects you on a visceral level. As if some universal hum is reaching out from a vast and ancient […]

Deftones : private music

Deftones are true survivors of the onslaught of the mid-90s heavy music scene. Lumped into the Nu metal crowd(unfairly), by their 3rd album White Pony the California art rock/metal band showed far more many colors and hues in their sonic palate. This gave them the artistic and creative cache needed to solidify a respected music […]

Edena Gardens : Dispossessed

Denmark’s Edena Gardens rolled onto the scene back in 2022 with their self-titled debut. A monolithic sound of doom-laced blues and post-rock expansiveness, it was like hearing Black Sabbath taking a cue from Ry Cooder; chugging rhythms, desolated guitar tones, and the feeling of some dystopian, post-apocalyptic western taking place on a distant, sun-dried planet. […]

The Black Keys : No Rain, No Flowers

Who still listens to the Black Keys? What’s the appeal to their heavily-produced, pop blues smorgasbord at this point? The last, I don’t know, 5 or 6 records have been these flaccid music affairs that were mere fading shadows of what the Ohio-based blues duo used to represent. Listen, I get it that artists can […]

OSEES : ABOMINATION REVEALED AT LAST

It’s that time of the year when we get ready for the sonic assault that is OSEES. There are like at least 10 different iterations of the West Coast punk/garage/noise band with various spellings, but they all mean just one thing: LOUD. The OSEES leader, singer, guitarist, and general noise guru is John Dwyer. A […]

Radiohead : Hail To The Thief(Live Recordings 2003-2009)

Radiohead may have made the biggest left turn of any band in terms of a sonic shift in style and sound. OK Computer was arguably one of the biggest alternative rock albums of the 90s(and beyond), propelling Radiohead into the pantheon of legendary bands. And for better or worse as far as Yorke & Co […]

Post Animal : IRON

Post Animal is a band that you’ve heard before(even if you haven’t.) They’re the kind of quiet indie rock band that’s been banging around for years. Calling themselves psychedelic seems to be a stretch, though their music can be moody; folksy, intimate, and heart-on-sleeve for sure. They could have easily fit right in the Pitchfork […]

Alice Cooper : The Revenge Of Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper, first the band and then just the guy, have been a staple of hard rock for over 50 years. Starting in 1969, they built a kind of rock and roll circus which combined blues rock, vaudeville, Gothic undertones, and 50s camp horror, Alice Cooper made a name for themselves as harbingers of blood-soaked […]