Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
I was trying to think of where I first heard Renato Montenegro, the East Coast musician behind the electronic project Missionary Work. For some reason I thought he was part of the whole Austin, TX and Holodeck Records crew, but he is not. He’s worked with the Goblin-heavy Dust Witch as well, but not to […]
Read More Baroque and Beyond : A Conversation with Renato MontenegroEvery once in a while a local band sends an album my way and I get the feeling they won’t be a local band for long. Fort Wayne has seen its share of amazing artists; Orange Opera, Vandolah, Thunderhawk, B-Sharps, and Heaven’s Gateway Drugs to name a few. Four-piece Namen Namen can now be added […]
Read More Namen Namen : Namen Namen EPThere’s something quite special about hearing a new Videodrones album. Since the 2016 debut album Mondo Ferox, the duo of Jakob Skott and Kristoffer Ovesen has created an aura of mystery with their heavy synth Dystopia put to record. Using queasy VHS horror rentals of the 80s as a their starting point, these two Danish […]
Read More Videodrones : After The FallGuitar wizard Joe Satriani has had a long and accomplished career over the last nearly 40 years redefining what a guitarist can do. His prophetic skills and melody-driven instrumentals made albums like Surfing With The Alien, Flying In A Blue Dream, The Extremist, and Strange Beautiful Music essential listening for any budding guitar slinger. I […]
Read More Joe Satriani : The Elephants Of MarsBillow Observatory, the long-running collaboration between musician/producer Jonas Munk and the great Auburn Lull’s Jason Kolb, has been quietly reinventing what ambient music can be for a decade now. Guitars awash in sonic maipulation that sound more like electo haze in the distance, coupled with synths and effects, Billow Observatory make sounds that feel revelatory. […]
Read More Billow Observatory : StaresideCan you feel it? Or is it just me? I don’t know, lately I’ve been feeling like something is changing, for the better. For me, anyways. Maybe it was getting those new glasses a few weeks ago. Or the fact I’ve got concerts lined up this year for the first time in quite some time. […]
Read More Something’s BrewingOliver Ackermann’s long running post-punk/shoegaze/noise rock band A Place To Bury Strangers continues to morph and evolve into the perfect screeching, nihilistic sound blast. Guitars that sonically land somewhere between a chainsaw, exploding power grid, and a universe eating itself, while drums and bass keep a constant, robot-like rhythm to march into the apocalypse to. […]
Read More A Place To Bury Strangers : See Through YouI never read comic books growing up. It wasn’t that I wasn’t interested in superheroes, it was just that I prefered getting my caped crusader fix via afternoon and Saturday morning cartoons. I used my imagination via action figures and created my own world, as opposed to following the classic storylines of Stan Lee, Jack […]
Read More Days of Chimps and RosesHello all. It’s been a minute since I’ve posted one of these ‘Long Story Short’ posts where I cover an album in a paragraph or two. Gotta be honest, there’s just so much coming my way it’s hard to keep up. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, I’d say that’s a good thing […]
Read More Long Story Short : Dark Sines, Ivan The Tolerable, Concrete Island, MyrnaHere’s another in my series of interviews regarding SFI Recordings and vinyl reissues. Today is the amazing Steve Moore talking about SFI’s vinyl issue of his cassette-only release Positronic Neural Pathways which was released in 2013 via VCO Recordings. Like my recent Majeure(AE Paterra) interview, this talk took place last year. We talk about some […]
Read More Positronic Vibes : Steve Moore Talks Vinyl Reissue, Song Covers, and New Music