Winter Grain = Sara Watkins + Eilen Jewell … read more
Local Review: Winter Grain – Self-titled
Local Reviews: Jail City Rockers – You Had It Coming
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Local Review: zonekidd – [ there are a lot of thunderstorms I have to go through to get to you ]
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zonekidd = Flying Lotus + SAINT PEPSI … read more
Local Review: Westward – Empire of Deception
Westward = She Wants Revenge × The Killers … read more
Local Review: Wey – Self-titled
Wey = The Stooges + X
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Local Review: zonekidd – resurrection of a dead flower
zonekidd = Greaf + Jinsang + Oregontrail … read more
Local Review: zonekidd – if i die, just know i actually liked you
zonekidd = Lorn + Sushileaf + Nosnija
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Local Review: XavierTheRapper – 8 Man
XavierTheRapper = Lil Tracy + Lil Skies + Night Lovell … read more
Local Review: Young Yankee – THE DEFIANT
Young Yankee = G-Eazy + J Cole + Mac Miller … read more
Local Review: When Cars Crash – All Kinds of Comfortable
WHEN CARS CRASH ALL KINDS OF COMFORTABLE (2002) Hibiscus Zombie When Cars Crash = Jade Tree Records + chutzpah One of the hardest things for me to do when helping out with Death by Salt was having to cut When Cars Crash’s track, “Shattered Smile”, from the comp after finding out it was previously released
Local Review: Yield – Self-titled demo
Yield Self-titled demo Yield = Alice in Chains + Metallica’s “Sanitarium” + Extreme Mid-80s chunka-chunka low-end metal parleys with tender, suicidal Alice-in-Chains ballads touching on themes of mind-rupturing confusion with plenty of guitar-pick’d arpeggios and minor chords (choicest example: “Brainwash”). It’s been done before, but Yield succeeds at a much-traversed genre because they’re completely
Local Review: Yaotl Mictlan – Self-titled demo
Yaotl Mictlan Self-titled demo Yaotl Mictlan = Mayhem + Mexico Yaotl Mictlan deliver black metal with a primal, South American heart, what Rene Gomez, lead singer, calls “pre-Colombian metal.” The opening track, “Decendiendo al Xibalba” starts with the sound of wood flutes, beads shaking, and what sounds like the deep yelling of an immense crowd.
