Foo Fighters : Are Playing Where??? Vol. I

When was the last time a Foo Fighters album was really all that good? At first they were the little band that could, with the drummer from Nirvana trying to do his own thing after Kurt Cobain checked out permanently. That debut was culled from 4-track recordings that the drummer in question, Dave Grohl, recorded […]

Radiohead : Hail To The Thief(Live Recordings 2003-2009)

Radiohead may have made the biggest left turn of any band in terms of a sonic shift in style and sound. OK Computer was arguably one of the biggest alternative rock albums of the 90s(and beyond), propelling Radiohead into the pantheon of legendary bands. And for better or worse as far as Yorke & Co […]

High On Miles : Electric And Live

I don’t think I will ever come to the day where Miles Davis doesn’t fascinate me. Even if I didn’t connect musically, the guy is a mystery wrapped inside an enigma. His phases so completely defined as an artist that there’s literally lines separating them; chapters in a book as dense as Pynchon, but taken […]

Causa Sui : Loppen 2024

What better way to break in the new year than with a brand new live album from Denmark’s reigning kings of fuzzed-out psych rock Causa Sui. For the past 20 years the quartet known as Causa Sui(Jonas Munk, Jess Kahr, Rasmus Rasmussen, Jakob Skøtt) have been worshipping at the alter of Blues For The Red […]

Causa Sui : Loppen 2021

September 11, 2021: A loud and electrifying return to the stage for Odense, Denmark’s psych behemoths Causa Sui. After spending a year and a half locked down during a worldwide pandemic, the Danish four-piece consisting of guitarist Jonas Munk, bassist Jess Kahr, keyboard player Rasmus Rasmussen, and drummer Jakob Skøtt hit the stage of famed […]

Nicklas Sørensen : Live

Guitarist Nicklas Sørensen comes at the guitar in a very unique way. He paints these vibes out of thin air; he builds cavernous soundscapes and sound fortresses with his instrument. For sure Sørensen can blow the roof off the joint with his red Stratocaster in his psych/prog trio Papir. He can riff and blow minds […]

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 […]

Message To Love : Hendrix and Band of Gypsys

Growing up, Jimi Hendrix was one of the big ones for me. Guitar hero, guitar God, six-string guru,..whatever you want to call him he was this super cool, super groovy alien being in colored silks and a flaming Strat making sounds on a guitar unheard of before. Of course he’d been dead over three years […]

Above & Beyond : Makaya McCraven’s ‘Highly Rare’

For it being only the second week of February I feel like there’s been an amazing amount of new music that’s hit our ears already. At least I’ve written about a lot of new music. I’m not complaining, man. January and February are typically pretty barren of new music off the bat. It’s usually March […]

Deafheaven : 10 Years Gone

Deafheaven have reshaped what it is and what it can be to be a metal band over the last decade. Seamlessly combining elements of black metal, post-rock, thrash, shoegaze, and even dream pop throughout each of their releases, the California 5-piece somehow make switching gears from Burzum and Slayer to Wilco and Explosions in The […]