RIP Mr Pooch McGooch: 2010-2024

This has been one of those things I’ve been dreading for months. So I suppose you could say that deep down I knew it was coming. Yesterday morning we had to give our goodest boy Otto some final peace. Standing around a small table with a warm, fuzzy blanket covering it my wife, my son, […]

Hawksmoor : Oneironautics

Last we heard from James McKeown, aka Hawksmoor, was last year’s excellent Telepathic Heights. This was the UK electronic artist’s debut with the legendary record label Soul Jazz Records. If you’re not familiar with Soul Jazz Records, you need to get out from under whatever rock you’re currently residing under and get acquainted. Their compilations […]

Repeated Viewing : Strip Their Flesh + The Artefact

Ahh, the double feature. There’s nothing quite like pairing up a couple horror movies for a sleazy horror marathon. The first double feature I can remember seeing was at the Warsaw Drive-In when I was probably 4-years old. For some unknown reason my parents thought it’d be a good idea to pack me and my […]

Lower Your Expectations : Pledge Night, Anthrax, and the Dangers of College Hazing

I was a horror and metal dork in the mid-to-late 80s. If I wasn’t filling my head with speed metal(or any metal for that matter) I was filling it with absolutely inappropriate horror. I watched plenty as a little kid in ‘Edited For Television’ form, like The Fog, Halloween, Scanners, The Howling, The Exorcist, and […]

Sermons By The Devil : Baptism Of Desire

Tom Hall has been making albums under the moniker Sermons By The Devil for a few years now. “Official House Band of the Apocalypse” is how he describes this all hardware electronic project, and I’d say that description is right on the money. I first came across Sermons back in 2021 with the album The […]

forestlike : forestlike

forestlike is the music duo of Jared Myers and Joshua Wayne Hensley. Meeting in the Michiana music scene of the late 90s, the two built a musical rapport playing on porches, dive bars, and DIY shows in various projects. While still remaining friends, Hensley went off to form The Rutabega, while Myers did his own […]

Cemetery Walk, Olivia Rodrigo, and Feeling The Feels

I was still feeling sore today. Not enough to stop me from being active, but enough for my brain to talk me out of being active(damn you, brain.) Still, common sense and the need for some quality sunshine prevailed over ‘Lazy John’ and his whispers of “nah, just go home”. I headed to the Beyer […]

Osees : Intercepted Message

Osees, the ever-evolving, name-changing(see Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, The Osees, etc…) project of multi-instrumentalist and garage rock Grandmaster John Dwyer has been a staple in psych/garage/punk/noise rock community for two decades. Starting the project in 1997 as a freak folk band, Dwyer’s band morphed and evolved until 2007s The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending […]

While My Guitar Gently Sleeps

I’ve got the bug again. For a very long time the urge to write songs has sat dormant in me. I don’t know at what point I decided songwriting wasn’t my main artistic outlet, but it happened. I’d probably say around 2015. That was right after the last full album of songs I’d put out. […]

Youth Lagoon : Heaven Is A Junkyard

Trevor Powers’ music project Youth Lagoon started in 2010 and 2011 saw the release of The Year Of Hibernation. The music Powers wrote felt personal, intimate, and at times fragile. His voice was a whisper above barely there; timid, squeaky, and with the feeling that he was reaching deep down for those words. The album […]