Music
Review: Misery – Production Thru Destruction
Misery know how to pour on the gloom and doom better than any heshers in Cannibal Corpse shirts because they’ve spent the last 15 years playing crust with enough metal to make a song interesting. … read more
Review: The Upwelling – Self-Titled
The songs on this 5 track EP are nice, they sore, they have a little rock in them and they have a mood that sometimes crosses Catherine Wheel with Elbow. … read more
Review: The Perishers – Let There Be Morning
The Perishers come sauntering in with a long list of hopefuls who would, if given the chance, knock that bloody crown off of Coldplay’s collective head. … read more
Review: Thee Heavenly Music Association – Shaping the Invisible
Caught somewhere between Curve and Garbage, the combination of Helen Storer and Dave Hillis produce a nice wall of distorted pop. … read more
Review: Great Lakes Myth Society – Self-Titled
These Great Lakes Myth Society are some strange hybrid of an American The Beautiful South, the bouncy happy sound that seems to roll out of Glasgow these days. … read more
Review: Random Hymns EP – GSL
Random Hymns drops you down the rabbit hole and dares you to climb out. It isn’t pretty. It isn’t supposed to be. … read more
Review: Mad E.P. – Eating Movies
Mad E.P. is completely uninhibited to experiment with hip-hop, piano keys, answering machine messages, flutes, cellos, street sounds, fist fights—you name it. … read more
Review: Brian Evanson with Xingu Hill & Tamarin – Altmann’s...
The spoken word project with Xingu Hill, Tamarin and author Brian Evanson has been in the works for quite some time now. … read more
Review: S. Sturgis – In a Haze
The artist’s name alone tells you this album is excellent. In eight years, Scott Sturgis has already shown that he can do gritty industrial with Pain Station, pounding rhythm noise with Converter and experimental ambiance with Notime. … read more
Review: :Wumpscut: – Evoke
The more I listen to this, the more I love it. It seems this happens with every :Wumpscut: album that has come out in the last eight years.
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Review: VNV Nation – Matter+Form
VNV Nation fans have waited two years for Matter+Form and will delight in the latest efforts of Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson. … read more
Review: Phazm – Hate at First Seed
Phazm are a French band that sound more like Amebix than any of their death metal contemporaries. This came across during the first listen as kind of plain. … read more
