This album is what it sounds like to pound a 12-pack of Pabst by yourself, jump around on your bed shredding on air guitar until you get sick and puke into a pile of week-old laundry, and knock over your foot-tall bong because you were too busy headbanging to pay attention to anything but the music. … read more
Local Review: Tupelo Moan – Cocaine and Chicken Grease
Fuck yeah! No, seriously, I said, “Fuck yeah,” every 20 seconds the first time through this album. I tried to find both of the items listed in the album title to get the full effect. … read more
Local Review: Twilight Transmissions – Temple Of Abandonment
Local musician Christopher Alvarado is on a creative binge lately and just keeps pumping out quality ambient pieces, this time alongside Jeff Duke. This is not as calming as what we are used to hearing from him, as it is a haunting release that has you envisioning the conflicts of an insane mind. … read more
Local Review: The No-Nation Orchestra – Coil EP
The No-Nation Orchestra = Antibalas + Fela Kuti + The Budos Band … read more
Local Review: The Piano Guys – Wonders
The Piano Guys = Richard Clayderman – Yanni … read more
Local Review: The Rose Phantom – Sketches: Live at Storm Mountain
The Rose Phantom = Clan Of Xymox + Psyche + Faith & the Muse … read more
Local Review: The Statuettes – Great Western EP
The Statuettes = Fictionist + Minus The Bear … read more
Local Review: The Love§trange – I Liked It, No I Didn’t
The Love§trange = Interpol + Elf Power … read more
Local Review: The Rompstompers – Richard Cranium
The Rompstompers = Highway Cross + early Megadeath … read more
Local Review: The Moths – Necromancy: Rock-N-Roll
The Moths = Joy Division + Dead Boys + Killing Joke … read more
Local Review: Theta Naught – Something Scientific
Theta Naught Something Scientific Eden’s Watchtower Theta Naught put the mental back into instrumental. All instrumental all the time, their aptly titled Something Scientific bypasses the borders of known quantum mechanics, not through math metal, as may be expected by the album title, but via the vessel of abstract, mellow, Mazzy Star alterna-rock. They’re mathematical
Local Review: The National Parks – Until I Live
The National Parks = Lord Huron + Bronze Radio Return + Of Monsters and Men … read more
