Tucker Riggleman & The Cheap Dates – Storming in Memphis
Hearing that someone likes the Replacements automatically makes their music more appealing to me. I admit that it still feels like partaking in a secret, but, I’m wrong. The Replacements certainly…
Andrew Bailie – Fuck The OPD
You know that one culture has truly won control over the minds and souls of the planet when even their curse words sound like the most common thing you’re likely to hear. What I meant is that it’s difficult to say the word…
Creative revisions: The Moon Whistlers and Lewca reviewed
January 22, 2021
Lewca – Doing My Thing
You can’t expect to make an impression dressed in a drab suit and talking politely to people. There’s an element of peacocking about Rock music that has been lost on recent, more humble, and less fame famished generations.
Modern times: Moldy Roses and Kill My Coquette reviewed
January 22, 2021
Kill My Coquette – The Metro
It’s hard enough for an artist to be judged for who they are. It’s even more difficult when they are being judged for only a portion of what they used to be. That’s the case in many ways for the great new-wave band…
Described by one music critic as “Arguably, the greatest rock single ever recorded“, the fame of the Only Ones’ Another girl, another planet has been enduring, to say the least. Fate would not be as kind to the band themselves and their brief catalog, and…
Punk rock soul: Review of Spizzenergi and Rik L Rik
January 21, 2021
Spizzenergi – Valentine’s Day
We are an ungrateful bunch of us humans, forever living for the past or the future, yet slow to recognize greatness when it is showing itself to us. It’s five years since the sad, untimely passing of the great David Bowie.
jman & the pigs – Happily
There’s this sound that 90s alternative-rock band The Primitive Radio Gods made that, even though I haven’t heard often, I can’t quite shake out of my head. It feels like several songs collapsing on top of each other…
For Tuesday – wrong party
Youthful abandon always looks better in retrospect. That may be due, especially, to the fact that for many, the window in which they are able to cut loose is a very narrow one and replaced soon by responsibilities and the burdens of…
Getting dark: SuckerTrap and Graywave reviewed
January 20, 2021
Graywave – Before
Musicians, by virtue of their profession, tend to spend the most amount of their time listening to sounds, organizing them in their minds, learning their various textures. It’s only natural then that professional, experienced musicians will…