Review: Good Bison – “Scattered Storms” February 8, 2021 The debut EP from the Pablo Alvarez project Good Bison is titled Scattered Storms, but a more accurate name for it might be Not-So-Scattered Sunshine. The… Continue Reading
Review: Palberta – “Palberta5000” February 1, 2021 “Headed out on the town, headed out on the town/ You think you know it so well, you think you know it so well… Continue Reading
Review: Brian Eno – “Film Music 1976 – 2020” February 1, 2021 Much conversation on Brian Eno’s greatness ends up circling back to Music For Airports. Originally released in March 1978, the album might have the distinction… Continue Reading
Review: Dale Crover – “Rat-A-Tat-Tat!” January 26, 2021 Passing listeners could be forgiven for missing the little cues on the opening and closing of Dale Crover’s third solo LP, Rat-A-Tat-Tat!, out now via… Continue Reading
Review: Chris Brokaw – “Puritan” January 22, 2021 Chris Brokaw’s onto something. The post-rock mainstay (Codeine, Come) and longtime supporting player (everyone from Thurston Moore to G.G. Allin) borrows the title from… Continue Reading
Review: Radon Chong – “Honey Worlds” EP January 19, 2021 The best songs by Pittsburgh avant-rock band Radon Chong don’t meander to a close; they kind of prance and trot and stumble along in… Continue Reading
Review: The Soviet Machines – S/T January 19, 2021 Enlisting Jack Endino turned out to be a damn good decision for the Soviet Machines. The noted Seattle-based producer/grunge “godfather” lends a caught-lightning-in-a-bottle vitality… Continue Reading
Feature: Best Songs of 2020 (Excerpt) December 29, 2020 14. The Chicks: “Gaslighter” [Sony Music] Election years breed proselytizing – and, yes, a fair bit of preaching to the choir. And 2020, in… Continue Reading
Review: Calexico – “Seasonal Shift” December 8, 2020 The song is hushed, even by Calexico standards, self-conscious and even a little timid in its presentation. It unfurls with carefully finger-picked guitars and… Continue Reading
Feature: Rediscover “The For Carnation” December 1, 2020 “Now when I fall to earth, I hear applause/ I love to hear applause,” Brian McMahan sings, suggesting various readings, on “Emp. Man’s Blues,”… Continue Reading
