Albums Of The Week: Gloo | How Not To Be Happy
Gloo’s 2019 debut A Pathetic Youth was easily one of the best albums of that year — and pretty much any other, when you get down to it. A...
Rews | Warriors
THE PRESS RELEASE: "Led by Northern Irish songwriter Shauna Tohill, the fierce, high energy, alternative-rock band Rews follow up their 2017 critically acclaimed debut Pyro with the new album...
Classic Album Review: Neurosis | Sovereign
This album came out a couple of decades ago. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
If there’s any band that could give Marilyn Manson...
Albums Of The Week: Frank Zappa | Zappa ’75: Zagreb/Ljubljana
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “In the fall of 1975, towards the tail end of a typically productive and prolific year that included finishing production on the One Size Fits...
Albums Of The Week: Daniel Romano’s Outfit | Cobra Poems
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Earth is a drum, they say. Shrouded by a magnetic halo that beats and oscillates in traceable resonance. All heaven can bear witness to...
All The News You Need To Hear: Hall of Fame, Ozzy & Beyonce
I can never remember if it's good things or bad things that are supposed to come in threes. All I know is that a trio of big new stories...
David Hasselhoff’s Insane Open Your Eyes Tops Today’s Album Announcements
Hands up, everybody who wants to hear David Hasselhoff cover Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline with Al Jourgensen and Ministry. If your hand isn't up right now, you're lying. And...
Rewinding 2023 (So Far) | The Long List
Another six months, another bajillion albums, EPs, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, bootlegs and vinyl reissues. Here's every title that found its way into my ears and onto...
Now Hear This: Novarupta | Marine Snow
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Formed in 2018 from the pyres of time spent in Swedish post-metal outfit The Moth Gatherer, Alex Stjernfeldt’s Novarupta has gone on to envelop almost...
Classic Album Review: The Sadies | Stories Often Told
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Stop me if you’ve...
Now Hear This: The Wanderer’s Rest | Anywhere, Anytime
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Named after a Milwaukee cemetery, Wanderer’s Rest was anything but peaceful. Led by the fuzzed-out twin guitar attack of brothers Richard and Mike Podraza, the...
Next Week in Music | May 2-8 • On TV
This is more like it: Arcade Fire, Elvis Costello, Black Crowes, Parquet Courts, Linda Lindas, Norah Jones, Father John Misty, Lucius and a double shot of Sheryl Crow are...
Albums Of The Week: The Coal Men | Everett
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Produced by The Coal Men’s founding singer-guitarist and songwriter Dave Coleman at his Howard’s Apartment Studio in Inglewood, TN, Everett is the band's sixth album...
Classic Album Review: Diana Krall | The Look of Love
This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Nobody is ever going...
Classic Album Review: Sky | Piece Of Paradise
This came out in 1999 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Some people wanna fill...
