Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
So in case you didn’t have any Friday plans, I’ve got a couple options for you. First, you can just go home after work, throw a Red Baron in the oven, drop a couple PBRs in the freezer so they get nice and cold, and then plop on that rickety La-Z-Boy and watch whatever pointless […]
Read More Jan Borré Performs ‘Grayson’ LiveGrowing up, Jimi Hendrix was one of the big ones for me. Guitar hero, guitar God, six-string guru,..whatever you want to call him he was this super cool, super groovy alien being in colored silks and a flaming Strat making sounds on a guitar unheard of before. Of course he’d been dead over three years […]
Read More Message To Love : Hendrix and Band of GypsysThe musical world of Yves Malone is a dark and slinky one. Heavy synth music with touches of Giallo, 80s slasher scores, and dystopian electronic that brings to mind late night viewings and 80s tube TV video game adventures. If you grew up on NES, USA Up All Night, and caffeinated Friday nights with video […]
Read More Yves Malone : Immortal DeathBurningTapes, aka Darren Page, has something a little different for your brains and ears this time around with his all new long player. He’s all but shelved the Carpenter-esque horror vibes and is ready to trample our psyches with dirty bass and scuzzy beats. There’s also a peppering of keys and samples that give the […]
Read More BurningTapes : Devil x NineNate Utesch has been quietly and consistently reshaping and reinventing his long-running music project Metavari since its inception as a post-rock outfit in the mid-2000s. What began as a group of musician friends filling stages across the country with full audio/visual, mind-expanding multimedia experiences became just two friends, Nate Utesch(keys, electronics, art direction) and Ty […]
Read More Metavari Bring ‘Absurda’ To Life With ‘Absurda, etc’ Livestream Show On 3/26The musical duo of Jonas Munk and Jason Kolb, otherwise known as Billow Observatory, have turned subtlety into a gorgeous, slow-moving art form. Their ambient and new age “shoegaze” forms like fog rolling over a chilly lake. Heavily-effected guitar and synths cascade together into something altogether new and transcendent. Both on their own have made […]
Read More Billow Observatory Get Cinematic With The Gorgeous “Red Morning”; Watch VideoYou guys remember Kings Of Leon? Three brothers, one cousin, and a plethora of fashion trends in the early 2000s that spanned 70s bell bottom blues, Mason Dixon faux punkers, Skynyrd art rock, and then finally Tom Ford fashion spread top 40 jams? Yeah, I figured you did. It seems that even after their sex […]
Read More Kings Of Leon : When You See YourselfMan, leave it to Tom McDowell and his Library of the Occult record label to lay some serious musical mojo on my brain. McDowell, in less than a year, has turned his label into a musical breeding ground of dark synth and forward-thinking musical escapades. Records that run the gamut from haunted drones to psych […]
Read More Get Lost In Ivan The Tolerable’s “Gold Hat”; ‘White Tears’ Out 4/2People are getting shots, and masks will be coming off. How do I smile in public anymore?
Read More I Don’t Remember How To Smile In PublicFeu Follet, aka Alban Blaising, makes dark synth and cold wave music that falls somewhere between doomed romanticism and ethereal Gothic. Blaising adds a touch of fairy tale magic to his sonic conjuring as well, giving the listening experience a narrative touch. In 2020 Feu Follet released La forêt oubliée on Blackjack Illuminist Records, a […]
Read More Feu Follet Premiere “With You” Video Featuring Vlimmer; ‘Beneath The Earth’ Out Now