Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
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 […]
Read More Lower Your Expectations : Pledge Night, Anthrax, and the Dangers of College HazingFull disclosure, I wasn’t much of a Great White fan. Coming up in the 80s I was exposed to them and I did dig their first three albums. After …Twice Shy I tapped out because, well, I got burnt out on the whole “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” thing. MTV and rock radio ruined that song […]
Read More “Rock Me” : R.I.P. Jack RussellThere was a time when The Smashing Pumpkins were a revered, loved, slightly misunderstood but ultimately great band. Gish, Siamese Dream, and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness were all monumental albums. Gish was the psychedelic little brother to the giants Siamese and Mellon Collie. Siamese laid the groundwork for Big Muff guitar fuzz that […]
Read More The Smashing Pumpkins : Aghori Mhori MeiJohn Dwyer is a guy seemingly never at rest. His band Osees(or Oh Sees, Thee Oh Sees, The Oh Sees, The Ohsees, or OCS depending on which way the wind blows) are a revolving door of garage, noise, psych, electro rock and occasionally whiffs of prog and metal that never stays in just one lane(hence […]
Read More Osees : SORCS 80Other names tend to pop up when you think of jazz trumpeters. Of course Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham, and Louis Armstrong come to mind, as does Chet Baker and Lee Morgan. But there’s one cat that was born in Indianapolis, IN that for my money is one of the most underrated jazz trumpeters […]
Read More “Mr. Clean”I’m finding it incredibly hard to believe we’re already in August. This year has been moving at an incredibly fast pace. Seems like it was just February, while March through June was merely a blur in the rear view. We’re already nearly a month past our July trip to Colorado. A couple weeks ago we […]
Read More Post-American DreamThe last Radiohead album was 2016s A Moon Shaped Pool. The last before that was 2011s The King Of Limbs. That was 5 years between albums. With Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s current project The Smile they have released two albums plus two live LPs over the last two years. Now that’s some seriously inspired […]
Read More The Smile Return With “Don’t Get Me Started”There’s nothing worse than being sick in the throes of summer. Obviously it’s always a bummer when you’re sick, but at least in the fall or winter the outdoors seems to mimic how you’re feeling on the inside; frigid and shaky, and the gray, wet, muddy landscape looks a lot like how you look on […]
Read More Touch Me, I’m SickJustin R. Cruz Gallego, aka Tacoma-based musician known as J.R.C.G. defies a tag to any sort of genre. Listening to his Sub Pop debut Grim Iconic…(Sadistic Mantra) you’re hit in the chest with serious rhythmic and groove intentions. He locks into his Latin roots and lays down some seriously heady percussive trips, but on top […]
Read More J.R.C.G. : Grim Iconic…(Sadistic Mantra)Greetings. Just a quick one to share yesterday’s vinyl haul from my friends at Karma Records of Warsaw. I was able to snag three out of the five records John at Karma had waiting for me. And when I mentioned what I was picking up I forgot one, Black Sabbath’s Sabbath Bloody Sabbath! Black Sabbath […]
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