Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
It felt like for a very long time that Kevin Parker could do no wrong. Tame Impala was this ever expanding collection of psychedelic rock with pop turns and Beatles-esque melodies strewn throughout acid-burnt guitar solos, to die for drum grooves, and the sense this Australian musical wunderkind who could do anything. His decade-run of […]
Read More Tame Impala : DeadbeatDrummer/percussionist Tom Skinner started playing drums at 9. He came up in the 90s grunge era, but then quickly moved to and found inspiration from experimental jazz artists like John Zorn and Ornette Coleman. He came out of the London jazz scene and then formed experimental jazz band Sons of Kemet. From 2013 to 2022 […]
Read More Tom Skinner : Kaleidoscopic VisionsMy first experience with the Giallo/Prog duo Dressel Amorosi was 2018s excellent DeathMetha, a hypnotic and bloody slab of sleazy disco and late night panic. I didn’t hear the album proper till it was re-released on limited edition cassette via Spun Out Of Control in 2020. It touched on classic Giallo grooves and panic-laden tension […]
Read More Giallo Prog Duo Dressel Amorosi Return With ‘House of Dolls’, Out 10/24; Listen To “Octagon Tower”20 years ago today on October 17th, 2005 Boards of Canada dropped their third full-length album The Campfire Headphase. It would take me another three years before Boards Of Canada got on my radar and would inevitably completely rewire my brain. Scottish brothers Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin became an obsession for me, and still […]
Read More “Constants Are Changing”: 20 years of Boards Of Canada’s ‘The Campfire Headphase’Friday is here, finally. And with it comes the true beginning of fall weather. We’ve had a few days here and there of mild temps -including upper 50s and low 60s for highs- but those temps were short-lived. We’d head back up into the upper 70s and 80s with all the humidity you could ever […]
Read More Out With False Fall…In With Real FallMelina Mae Cortez Duterte, aka Jay Som, has a very distinct sound to her music. At times sparse, other times big fuzzed-out guitars, Jay Som makes indie rock that can spend equal time in big pop production and also low key and lo-fi. Her official debut as Jay Som, 2017’s Everybody Works was catchy radio-ready […]
Read More Jay Som : BelongI discovered the Canadian rock band Sloan back in 1997 thanks to the Canadian music channel MuchMusic. MuchMusic came with our satellite subscription and for the bulk of 1997 I watched a lot of MuchMusic, and one of the many great Canadian bands I discovered(besides Odds, Big Sugar, and Big Wreck) was the band Sloan. […]
Read More Sloan : Based on the Best SellerNothing better than a three-day weekend. Well, except a 4-day weekend but I’m not getting stingy here. A three-day weekend was just what the doctor ordered. What doc? Umm…Doctor Detroit? My wife and I took Friday off and headed up north three hours to the great Michigan college town known as Ann Arbor, or “the […]
Read More Ann Arbor…Live Music…Long Way HomeCarlton Melton, one of the West Coast’s premier psych rock explorers, have been at it now for going on two decades. Andy Duvall(drums and guitar), Clint Golden(bass), Rich Millman(guitar/synth), and Anthony Taibi(synth/guitar) have created their own world of psychedelic swirls, monolithic drones, scuzzy blues, and widescreen jams with a view out of the dusty windshield […]
Read More Carlton Melton : Live Hebden Bridge & Enschede 2023David Salisbury, aka Camp of Wolves, works in memories both bittersweet and melancholy. Tender, subtle tomes that reflect on time and childhood and those complicated building blocks of experience that go to shape the adult we become, once we’ve sadly left those formative years. Humming, ghostly tomes that come at you like ghosts of the […]
Read More Camp of Wolves : Bear Creek