Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
It’s been a long strange trip, but the new Tool album is here. After years of speculation, starts and stops, rumors and allegations, the veteran metal band has returned after 13 years of deafening silence. The result is the mammoth Fear Inoculum. At nearly 90 minutes in length, Tool have re-established their claim as the […]
Read More Tool : Fear InoculumOh Baby seems to be channeling a thousand 80s nights on their debut EP The Art of Sleeping Alone. Hanging out at the arcade, staring out at a darkened lake with someone you think is the one, being dropped off at an all night skate, or letting it all go at a humid disco. A […]
Read More Oh Baby : The Art of Sleeping AloneThere really is none greater than Sankofa. The Midwest rapper has been quietly(and sometimes not so quietly) writing and recording thoughtful, introspective, and next-level rhymes now for over ten years(but less than 50.) He’s a worldly fellow but calls Fort Wayne, Indiana home. Whenever there’s a chance to hit a stage and spread the knowledge […]
Read More Sankofa Drops Video For “Blood of the Eagle’s Eye”; ‘$5,000 Flashlights’ Out Sept. 2ndMelina Duterte makes beautifully restrained pop music as Jay Som. There’s the intimacy of Sufjan Stevens and Youth Lagoon, but with the adventurous experimentalism of late 80s Adrian Belew, Lindsey Buckingham, and Cocteau Twins. Her first collection of demos and home recordings Turn Into showed great promise, establishing Duterte as an artists to watch. Her […]
Read More Jay Som : Anak KoI’m a sucker for a great pop song. Growing up with parents that spun Beatles records all the time and hearing AM radio in the backseat as a little kid had an affect on me. Having songs from the Raspberries, Leo Sayer, the Bee Gees, Andrew Gold, and the Steve Miller Band played in a […]
Read More Peach Pyramid Drops The Dreamy “Wear Sunscreen”Alone In The Woods is the electronic duo of Jon Dobyns and Lonn Bologna. Though, they aren’t just any electronic duo. Their time together as musical partners goes back many years, but Alone In The Woods is relatively new. They debuted on Burning Witches Records’ Communion compilation from RSD 2018. Then at the end of […]
Read More Alone In The Woods : KwaidanWhen you say post-punk, you think of bands like Wire, The Cure, Mission of Burma, Joy Division, Magazine, Pere Ubu, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Fall. These were the artists that defined the genre and created the post-punk archetype. Abwärts may not be a household name, but Neat Neat Neat Records are trying to […]
Read More Abwärts : Amok KomaSince John Coltrane’s untimely death in 1967 we’ve been given a plethora of unreleased music by the jazz master and innovator. With all of the sessions Coltrane had recorded throughout the 50s and 60s there was bound to be some things that never saw the light of day. The amount of records released by John […]
Read More John Coltrane’s Unreleased ‘Blue World’ Drops September 27th; Listen To Title TrackThere’s a peaceful nostalgia that comes over me while listening to Blue Tomorrows’ “Sound of Moving”. Sarah Nienaber’s voice is like the whisper of a glorious dream. Remnants of memories you wake up with after a beautifully melancholy vision; memories that never existed before your head hit the pillow, but ones you desperately try to […]
Read More Blue Tomorrows Releases The Dreamy “Sound of Moving”; Debut Drops Next MonthBlanck Mass, aka Benjamin John Power, makes music in extremes. From his debut self-titled in 2011 to his Sacred Bones Records debut Dumb Flesh in 2015 to 2017s World Eater, Power’s music world is loud, visceral, and not for the faint of ear. Blanck Mass’ sound is industrial, with EDM, drone, and ambient mixed in […]
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