Authors: Stakerized
Review: Sharp Practise – Steal With Pride
Sharp Practise = REO Speedwagon + The Who – Little River Band … read more
Review: Reigning Sound – Shattered
Reigning Sound= Bob Dylan + The New Pornographers – Neko Case … read more
Review: Ricked Wicky – I Sell the Circus
Ricked Wicky = Robert Pollard + Circus Devils – Guided By Voices … read more
Review: Quasi – Mole City
Rock n’ roll is about excess, not precision or scholastic adherence to tradition or, RockGods forbid, discipline. It does take some kind of discipline, or something, to make music with an ex-spouse, as do Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss of Quasi. … read more
Review: Robert Pollard – Blazing Gentlemen
Robert Pollard’s musical universe (and it is a universe—he’s written thousands of songs) often sounds like some alternate through-the-looking-glass world, resembling classic rock, with riffs and lyrical tropes that seem somehow familiar, but from some other far-off constellation. … read more
Review: Plague Vendor – Free To Eat
Review: Plague Vendor – Free To Eat … read more
Review: Polvo – Siveria
Polvo was math-y before there was math rock, but the angular equations of their guitar riffs and drum rhythms seemed like some secret calculus, more subtle and organic then their successors. … read more
Review: Pink Mountaintops – Get Back
Vancouver indie post-punk (for lack of a better term) band Pink Mountaintops’ past members include members of everything from experimental bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor to psych troupes The Warlocks to the heavy purveyors Black Mountain. … read more
Review: Pere Ubu – Carnival Of Souls
Pere Ubu = Rocket From The Tombs + Red Krayola – Devo … read more
Review: Papercuts – Life Among the Savages
Papercuts = Spiritualized + The Eels – Coldplay … read more
Review: Neil Young – Storytone
Neil Young = Crazy Horse … read more
Review: Mecca Normal – Empathy For the Evil
Mecca Normal = Sleater Kinney + Beat Happening – Bikini Kill … read more