Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
So maybe as to kick the naysayers in the teeth, Deafheaven have dropped a meteoric slab of pure thrash/black metal called “Black Brick” onto an unsuspecting earth. This song is so full of vitriol and venom that you have to keep double checking that you are indeed listening to Deafheaven. It’s that heavy, and that […]
Read More deafheaven’s “Black Brick”The re-scoring of a classic or cult film can be an exciting thing. There have been some truly amazing re-scorings over the last couple years, such as Metavari’s re-scoring of Fritz Lang’s masterpiece Metropolis, the Kwaidan re-score featuring Troller, Michael C Sharp, Antoni Maiovvi, Timothy Fife, and Missions(at the 2017 SXSW), and even Zombi’s Steve […]
Read More Reimagining Sound : Majeure, Curved Light, and True Creature Re-Scoring For SXSW 2019Yes children, gather round for I have great news! The mighty Canadian psych collective Black Mountain have announced that on May 24th they’re dropping their brand new LP Destroyer with their longstanding record label Jagjaguwar. It’s been almost two years since their last release, the incredible IV. In between then and now the band had […]
Read More Black Mountain Return In May With ‘Destroyer’; Listen to “Future Shade”Burial Grid’s sound lives within the buzzing and crackling of analog synths. A wild and cathartic bee swarm noise of nightmares and fever dreams, mixed with a heavy dose of self-examination. Over the course of 2017 and 2018 Burial Grid’s Adam Michael Kozak recorded a 5-song opus called My Body Dissolves as I Watch and […]
Read More Burial Grid : My Body Dissolves as I Watch and DissolveFrom the first time I heard Com Truise’s Galactic Melt I was hooked on Seth Haley’s sound. Even though there’s a little over decade that separates Mr. Haley and myself age-wise, it’s as if he was riding a BMX bike along side me down the county road I lived on to the nearby convenience store […]
Read More Com Truise Readies ‘Persuasion System’; Listen To “Existence Schematic”Dave Harrington is a sound collage maker. He’s known as a guitarist, but he’s far more than that. With the smooth guitar vibes of David Gilmour mixed with the eclectic ear of Brian Eno, Harrington builds intriguing castles of noise that touch the limits of ambient, jazz fusion, and even post-rock at times. My first […]
Read More Dave Harrington Group : Pure Imagination, No CountryMan, what took me so long to find my way to Pye Corner Audio? Seriously, I’ve heard the name for years now from folks that seemingly matter, yet I never heeded their advice. Like whispers in darkened corners and strange messages left on the front stoop written on hotel stationary that simply reads “Pye Corner […]
Read More Pye Corner Audio : Hollow EarthI remember my 14th birthday like it was yesterday. It was the birthday my parents bought me my first electric guitar. It was a 1986 Squier Stratocaster. Blue with white pickguard. They’d bought it with the help of my guitar teacher at the time Jim Howie from Paradise Music Store. In my hometown at that […]
Read More FourteenIt really is the time of the record label, isn’t it? There are so many great, smaller labels that have stepped out of the ether over the last decade to blow our minds and empty our wallets. Labels like Death Waltz Originals, Tiger Lab Vinyl, Holodeck Records, Burning Witches Records, El Paraiso Records, Data Airlines, […]
Read More Light And Dark : The Sonic World of Record Label Soundtracking The VoidOne of the most intriguing and beguiling releases last year was Phantoms vs Fires’s Swim(released via Burning Witches Records.) That album seemed to absorb everything it came into contact with and reflected it back to the listener in some beautifully alien way. It was an electronic album that sounded to be built out of individual […]
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