Thunder Pie | The Ballad of the Nightmare Kid
“I’ll split you in two.” — Freddy Krueger
The other night, deep in the dark, way after the bats had flown out of the holes in the eaves and the...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Long before it was a Top 40 radio station in the nation's capital, Ottawa's CFMO was an easy-listening station. My parents often chose it — not because they liked...
Albums Of The Week: Beach Rats | Rat Beat
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Asbury Park is the reason. The languid beach community in New Jersey has long been a port-of-call for many a disaffected musician — from Bruce...
Albums Of The Week: A Giant Dog | Fight + Bone Reissues
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Just in time for the beloved Austin band’s summer tour dates, Merge Records has reissued A Giant Dog’s first two full-lengths — 2012’s Fight and...
Albums Of The Week: Pretty Lightning | Dust Moves
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Dust Moves is the new album from Saarbrücken, Germany duo Pretty Lightning. Since forming over a decade ago, the band are now on their fifth...
Albums Of The Week: Sons Of Adam | Saturday’s Sons: The Complete Recordings 1964-1966
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Saturday’s Sons: The Complete Recordings 1964-1966 is the first-ever comprehensive anthology of legendary 1960s L.A. band Sons Of Adam.
Led by visionary guitarist Randy Holden (Blue Cheer,...
Albums Of The Week: Dune Rats | Real Rare Whale
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Real Rare Whale is Dune Rats’ fourth long player and was recorded with acclaimed producer Scott Horscroft.
The Australian band relocated to Eden on the south...
Albums Of The Week: Throwaway | Hand That Takes
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Behold, a woman with a paper bag on her head. From the paper bag comes shrieking and yelling, things like "HEY! Motherfucker wouldn't ya know...
Albums Of The Week: Whiskey Myers | Tornillo
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “For genre-bending band Whiskey Myers, 2019's self-titled and self-produced album offered a watershed moment. The album sold 41,000 copies in its first week, debuted atop both...
Albums Of The Week: Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts | Mission
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “After the release of the debut Matt Mitchell & The Coldhearts album in 2019, it was clear that a sophomore album would at some point...
Albums Of The Week: Wombo | Fairy Rust
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Fairy Rust, the new album from Wombo — Sydney Chadwick, Cameron Lowe and Joel Taylor — contemplates the spaces in-between, a meeting of the physicality...
Albums Of The Week: Murder By Death | Spell/Bound
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Some bands build catalogs over the years. Murder By Death have built a universe. Over more than two decades together, the Louisville band have released...
Albums Of The Week: of Montreal | Freewave Lucifer fck
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “When creators f<ck with how we experience time and space, great fictions emerge: Clive Barker’s Imajica, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sci-fi classic Solaris, and Godard’s Alphaville. But...
Albums Of The Week: Unwritten Law | The Hum
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “SoCal punk pillars Unwritten Law return with a vengeance on this their first studio album of original material in over 10 years!
Still led by founding...
Albums Of The Week: Little Feat | Waiting For Columbus Super Deluxe Edition
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “It’s fitting that Little Feat is on the road this summer as the group celebrates the upcoming 45th anniversary deluxe edition of Waiting For Columbus,...
