Vlimmer’s Alexander Leonard Donat Readies New Project Assassun, ‘Sunset Skull’ Arrives 3/11; Listen To “Devours Itself”

Alexander Leonard Donat is a man of many moods. With his project Vlimmer he unleashes poetic dark wave with gorgeous melodies and Gothic undertones. With Fir Cone Children he gives us beautifully constructed pop in the spirit of Robyn Hitchcock and Guided By Voices. Whatever non de plume Donat is creating under it’s always exciting, […]

POLYBIUS by Sinneslochen Inc

In the summer of 1981 a mysterious game appeared in a local arcade in Portland, Oregon. ‘Polybius’, as it was called, proved to be extremely popular with the local youth in the Pacific Northwest town. Teens would line up outside of the arcade before opening and a line would continue till closing. Kids obsessed over […]

Majeure : Union Of Worlds

On Majeure’s 2015 release Union Of Worlds, AE Paterra made a synth-heavy masterpiece with six tracks that spanned sonic territory from hazy synth drifts to woozy long form electronics to moments of dreamy soundscapes.Heavy on synths and light on Paterra’s usual masterful drums, Union Of Worlds was a much more intimate and contemplative album. Originally […]

Steve Moore : Positronic Neural Pathways

Steve Moore is one of the best when it comes to heady and engrossing electronic music. Between his work in Zombi, his score work, and his original music released under his own name Moore has created a vast and engaing sound world that is truly unparalleled. From prog synth/bass/drum freakouts to deep space synth drifts […]

Johnny Marr : Fever Dreams Pts 1-4

The Smiths existed within a magical moment in 80s college/alternative music. Shimmering guitars, dance-heavy rhythms, and of course that voice. Songs of love, loss, and British snark that were as earnest as they were snarky. Morrissey gets a lot of the credit for the Smiths success, and sure he was an integral ingredient. But without […]

Paper Or Plastic

I had a dream the other day that I was back in the old Owens grocery story on Market St in my hometown. This was the store my family shopped at for all of our groceries growing up. From the time when I could fit underneath the cart where you typically put bags of softener […]

Jonah Leatherman : Jonah Leatherman

Fort Wayne, Indiana’s Jonah Leatherman makes music that sounds timeless. Jangly indie rock that’s rooted in the tradition of big, classic rock and roll. Think 80s Springsteen, Petty, and The Hooters with more current bands like The War On Drugs and Kurt Vile thrown in for good measure. Those are the ingredients, anyways. Jonah puts […]

You Do You(Or Whatever)

It’s Thursday night and I’m enjoying a couple pints and listening to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. It’s a brand new piece of vinyl that I procured just this afternoon. First Flight To Tokyo : The Lost 1961 Recordings to be precise. It’s stunning. I never really got into Art Blakey and the Jazz […]

“You’ll Know When You Get There” : The Genius Of Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi

It’s not that Herbie Hancock doesn’t get the love and heaps of praise that he deserves, but his trilogy of albums he released for Warner Brothers Records in the early 70s definitely do not. Mwandishi, The Crossing, and Sextant were released concurrently in 1971, 1972, and 1973, and saw Hancock expanding his sonic palate exponentially. […]

Bright Frights, Big City

Nearly two weeks ago my wife and I made the trek to Chicago and saw our first concert together in a very long time. I was trying to remember the last live show we saw and I think it might have been Steve Vai in October of 2016. We used to go to concerts on […]

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