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Reliquia and The Damn Devils Reviewed
November 7, 2024
Reliquia – The Graveyard School
In truth, there aren’t many genres that go well blended together. That doesn’t mean that the majority of musical genres haven’t been forcefully glued by someone looking to churn out a new flavour. With the audience’s full…
Jane’s Addiction - "Nothing's Shocking" Reviewed and Revisited
November 5, 2024
Jane’s Addiction may have caught the headlines in 2024 for all the wrong reasons. But all of the sympathy and nostalgia were justified. Their 1988 debut album, “Nothing’s Shocking”, more than any other release, perhaps, ushered “alternative…
Joy Divison - "Unknown Pleasures" Reviewed and Revisited
November 4, 2024
Joy Division’s debut was the moment when punk rock stopped needing to be fast, aggressive or sloppy. The Manchester band, for many, pioneered and defined what was to be dubbed “post-punk,” a tense, mid-tempo style primarily dedicated to existentialist…
En-Vitro and Mister Sunshine Reviewed
November 4, 2024
En-Vitro – Bury Me
Listening to highly complex, proficiently put-together music is bound to rot your brain. You may end up being one of those people talking endlessly about how much of Bach’s music they’ve been able to listen to so far. Or worse, you may end up…
Griffin Benton and Ethan Samuel Brown Reviewed
November 4, 2024
Griffin Benton – Broken Pieces
A lot of people ended up loving the alternative rock, indie and pop-punk bands of the 90s and 2000s. A lot of people kept loving them in the decades that followed. Many gave their time, listening to songs and attending concerts.
The Hypnatwists and Mooses Reviewed
November 4, 2024
The Hypnatwists – Wicked Eyes
The thing about James Bond soundtrack tunes is that none of them are fast, chaotic, or lose focus before the last note of them has been played. That is something that they have in common with all other spy movie themes. The spies who…
The Holy Knives and Johnny & the Dinosaurs Reviewed
November 4, 2024
The Holy Knives – Killer
Bring back the guillotine. And have gladiators getting eaten up by tigers playing as a warm-up. I’m sure few people will complain. And, anyway, all those voices will be drowned out by everyone having a world of a time, fighting to get…
timothy e. cooney jr and Matthew Squires Reviewed
November 3, 2024
timothy e. cooney jr – skyscrape
It’s a bit of a heartbreaker, I know, but many of the memories you’ve gathered throughout this day, you won’t be able to hold for long. It doesn’t even matter how good or bad of a day it was.
But don’t worry, you…
Fabian Brusk-Jahn - "In the Dungeons of Bäckabo" Reviewed
November 3, 2024
Maybe it is true that the Universe has a way of balancing things out. It never gives too much or too little to one place or a particular group of people. This leaves everyone having to scramble, needing to learn to negotiate and, occasionally, wanting to get the hell out of…