Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Candlebox hit the scene with their self-titled debut in 1993. A hard rock four-piece coming out of the over-saturated Seattle music scene that was still reeling from the great grunge takeover of 1991. Candlebox stood apart from their hometown’s contemporaries in that they made straight up alternative rock that veered closer to Janes Addiction than […]
Read More Candlebox : WolvesAdam Michael Kozak, aka Burial Grid, is counting down the days till his next full-length LP will drop. Shores of Quiddity is promising to be one of the artists best albums yet. That’s saying a lot given his last two releases were We’ve Come For Your Flesh and Negative Space, two incredibly heavy and engaging […]
Read More Burial Grid Drops “Crisis Apparition”I guess depending on your personality, The Partridge Family album could summon the darkness. I hope that’s not you, though. If it is, please seek help. Seriously, David Cassidy is not the Prince of Darkness. My point is that there’s all kinds of albums that carry serious shaded spots to them. I covered a few […]
Read More The Sounds Of Fall : Albums To Summon The Darkness Part IIThe last release from Oli Heffernan, aka Ivan The Tolerable, & his Elastic Band was 2020’s excellent Out Of Season. That album was this mixture of free form noise, blistering riffs, Sun Ra space explorations, and beatnik spirit in the form of spoken word courtesy of one of the coolest dudes on the planet, Mike […]
Read More New Ivan The Tolerable & His Elastic Band, ‘The Long Year’, Drops 11/26; Listen To “Night Hospital”Steve Moore has kept pretty busy despite a slow time for working musicians. Starting last year with a killer track on the Portals comp via Behind The Sky, Zombi’s excellent 2020, a series of covers this year under the ‘Zombi and Friends’ moniker, the collab album Liminial Migration with Bluetech, a new Zombi ep earlier […]
Read More Steve Moore : Gone WorldLibrary Of The Occult returns 10/1 with a gorgeous slice of baroque horror in Missionary Work’s haunting new album The Ash Tree, a musical companion to M.R. James’ tale of the same name. Witches, hangings, trees, and things that go scratch in the night are at the heart of James’ tale. Missionary Work gives us […]
Read More Missionary Work Returns With ‘The Ash Tree’, Out 10/1; Listen To “Thou Shalt Seek Me in the Morning…”This is a repost from April of 2016 when I talked with Christopher Ashley of Slasher Film Festival Strategy. Great talk and felt it was worthy of a repost. Tune in tomorrow for an exclusive premiere. You’re gonna dig it. – J Hubner Growing up a horror hound, there were many aspects of those sleazy, […]
Read More Nightmare Songs : The Sleazy Beauty of Slasher Film Festival StrategyThe War On Drugs have become one of the best rock and roll bands working today. In fact, the ensemble rock band seems to be a fading thing. With the exception of a handful of bands, The War On Drugs seem to be a dying breed. They make earnest, blue collar music that feels both […]
Read More The War On Drugs’ “I Don’t Live Here Anymore”The first time I heard David Salisbury’s musical project Camp Of Wolves was the album Granite Creek(out in January on Soundtracking The Void.)The music on that album entrances; baroque electronic that whispers melodies through circuits and sound manipulation. Salisbury makes music that sounds of his surroundings, which is the dense forests and intimidating countryside of […]
Read More Camp Of Wolves : Green TimbersNext week will be my uncle Chuck’s 80th birthday. He’s the oldest, with my dad being five years behind him at 75. To be perfectly honest I don’t know my uncle Chuck all that well. In fact, I’m not even sure I’ve ever had a full conversation with the man. He was never around when […]
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