Albums Of The Week: Drug Church | Hygiene
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Drug Church are a band without fear. For the past 10 years, the Albany and L.A.-based five-piece have been staunchly creating their own singular path...
Albums Of The Week: The Human Tornado | Love Is Démodé
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Offering a slab of smashing knock-out heavy groove rock, The Human Tornado’s Love Is Démodé follows their 2016 debut record Storm In A Ketchup. Since...
Albums Of The Week: Bastards Of Soul | Corners
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Bastards of Soul’s second album Corners is larger than life itself — a testament to a titanic talent taken too quickly from this world, capturing...
Albums Of The Week: Spiral Drive | Visions In Bloom
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Swirly trips and dirty riffs: Spiral Drive play space-rock with an unmistaken energy. The project of songwriter and producer Raphael Neikes shows how memorable, hypnotizing...
Albums Of The Week: The Mysterines | Reeling
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Mysterines’ debut album Reeling was made under the watchful eye of acclaimed producer Catherine Marks (Wolf Alice, The Big Moon, PJ Harvey) over three...
Albums Of The Week: Widowspeak | The Jacket
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Jacket started out with loose strings of a concept, a story about a fictional band:
A chain-stitcher working in the satin district of an unnamed...
Albums Of The Week: Georgia Satellites | Lightnin’ In A Bottle: The Official Live...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “In 1988, The Georgia Satellites rolled into Cleveland, Ohio for a blistering Monday night at local watering hole Peabody’s, formerly the punk haven Pirates Cove.
With...
Albums Of The Week: Tanya Tagaq | Tongues
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “You don’t think about what’s underfoot until it stirs. Tanya Tagaq, an experimental, improvisational, exceptional artist, has felt the land beneath her shake. To survive,...
Albums Of The Week: The Districts | Great American Painting
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Great American Painting is the rare album that shines a bright light on all that’s wrong in the world but somehow still channels a galvanizing...
Albums Of The Week: Closure In Moscow | Pink Lemonade Reissue
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Do you remember the album that told the story of life? The story of a fool’s journey? A story of our desire for happiness? The...
Albums Of The Week: Hoodoo Gurus | Chariots Of The Gods
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Despite the global COVID-19 pandemic, Hoodoo Gurus had a busy 2021, preparing for the release of their 10th studio album Chariot Of The Gods. Although...
Albums Of The Week: Bodega | Broken Equipment
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The followup to Bodega's acclaimed debut album Endless Scroll (2018), and 2019's Shiny New Model EP, Broken Equipment was inspired by a book club. In...
Albums Of The Week: Ghost | Impera
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “We’re building our new empire from the ashes of an old one,” say Grammy-winning Swedish theatrical rock outfit Ghost, announcing the arrival of Impera, the...
Album Of The Day: Sam Jr. | Sam Jr.
We are all the heroes of our own stories. So it only makes sense that guitarist Sam Jr. is the guitar hero of his. Finally.
After more than a decade...
Classic Album Review: Remy Shand | The Way I Feel
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):
For a medium-sized city...