Viagra Boys : Viagr Aboys

First time I’d ever heard Sweden’s Viagra Boys was opening for Queens of the Stone Age. I had an idea of what a band called Viagra Boys would sound like, and my imagination did not disappoint. But what I didn’t expect was to like them as much as I did. The 6-piece Swedish post-punk band […]

The Smile : Cutouts

The Smile -the Radiohead side project of Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood- shouldn’t work as well as it does. Like Yorke’s solo albums and Greenwood’s film scores they are great listening experiences, but we’re always waiting for them to get back together with their Radiohead counterparts and give us another masterpiece. Since 2022 Yorke and […]

The Smile : Wall Of Eyes

The Smile emerged in 2022 six years after the last full-length Radiohead album A Moon Shaped Pool. Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and drummer Tom Skinner got together to make pared down rock and roll, with Yorke and Greenwood switching back and forth between bass, guitar , and electronics. The result was the excellent A Light […]

Blonde Redhead : Sit Down For Dinner

The New York-based trio of Blonde Redhead have covered lots of sonic ground in their 30-year career. The band -which consists of Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace – released their first album in 1995 and started out as a noise rock band. But as the years went on Blonde Redhead evolved […]

White Hills : The Revenge Of Heads On Fire

White Hills are the quintessential New York rock band. They’re loud, gritty, can wear a pair of leather pants like nobody’s business, and paint musical visions of stark cityscapes and shadowy worlds that only make their presence known when the sun dies over the lower east side. Dave W and Ego Sensation are the minds […]

Black Midi : Hellfire

Over the course of three albums in as many years the prog/math/avante rock band Black Midi have gone to great measures to make densely-layered and technically jaw-dropping albums that the simple passerby’s frontal lobe would melt from after listening. This isn’t the kind of rock music you put on for a chill session. The UK […]

Mines Falls Returns With New LP ‘Piano Caldera’, Out Soon; Watch Video For New Single “Right Angle”

I’ve been following brothers Carson and Erik Lund for a couple years now. Their project Mines Falls is an exciting mixture of dark electronics, sleek production, and melodic art rock that sonically touches on everything from Massive Attack and LCD Soundsystem, to solo Thom Yorke and Son Lux. Similar artists aside, Mines Falls is its […]

METZ : LIVE AT THE OPERA HOUSE

METZ have established themselves as modern post-punk titans over the course of a decade, making albums as sonically punishing as they are deceptively catchy. Pained, barb wire-wrapped pop structures coated in honey, dipped in broken glass and meticulously pounded into our psyches until we give into the aural assault. The Canadian four-piece released their fourth […]

Gustaf Drop Debut Single “Mine”

Gustaf may not be a band you’ve heard of yet, but I think that’s about to change. The 5-piece art rock/post-punk outfit hails from New York City and were formed in 2018. They’ve built a reputation around NYC as a hard working, fun band that has gotten the attention of Beck, James Chance, and have […]

Protomartyr : Ultimate Success Today

Let us rejoice, for Protomartyr have returned from the Motor City to deliver unto us another sermon of epic proportions. Their rapturous mix of post-punk and art rock combined with front man Joe Casey’s pulpit tirades and apocalyptic urban decay manifestos are the kind of serious talk we all need to hear right now. In […]