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  • Best albums of 2014

      Ahoy there! We have another one of them fancy lists for your reading pleasure. Since everyone and their mothers (and farmers’ mothers) have a “best of” list by now, we asked our readers and collaborators for their choices. Some heard the call and voraciously, viciously and vividly described what they enjoyed (or not –…

  • Interview: Withershins

    A little while ago, a band from Champaign got in touch with us, contemplating the idea of streaming their new album in our dinky little website. That happened, then we fell head over heels over the album. Now, to get a trifecta, we got in touch with Isaac Arms from Withershins for an email interview. Space Rock,…

  • New Music: Sur Back, Adi Carter, Polaris Rose, URSS bajo el árbol, Solanas’ Sons

    Hello there! Here’s a few new tracks for your listening pleasure. Several genres, several paths, choose your own adventure! Been hearing some good stuff about Sur Back this year and her newest track ‘Occam’s Razor’, from her Kitsch album, keeps her sound evolving into dark fantasy territories. Adi Carter brings back the sounds of yore with ‘1980’,…

  • Review: The Twilight Sad – Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave // Oran Mor Session

     “In the end we had pieces of the puzzle but no matter how we put them together gaps remained; oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn’t name”  Manic Street Preachers – ‘Doors closing slowly’ Of the  many song titles the insta-classic Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters, the one that always…

  • Review: Trojan Horse – World Turned Upside Down

    The process of making an album can sometimes be a battle worthy of Sisyphus. You like something. Then you remember how much you preferred the demo version. Then you fight with yourself, bring the ideas and everybody else chimes in. That’s one layer done, another 110 or so to go. Now imagine that process extrapolated,…

  • Review: The Fervor – Bleeder

    Back when Arise, Great Warrior came out in 2011, the short album felt like an epic tale of dark Gothic Americana songs mixing the sound of seedy dive bars and supernatural tales from the deep South. With Bleeder, the storytelling feels more nuanced, so what once were strokes of ocher and dark yellow are now…

  • Vast Robot Armies’ Studio Diary – Day Eight

    “The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.” –Henry Rollins I remember waking up on the 8th day (5th day recording) and finally having the feeling. The feeling that I no longer had any sense of what a normal structured week was like.…

  • Review: Generationals – Alix

    If there’s one thing I’ve observed in the last eight or so years that I’ve been moving in this side of the quill called “music reviewing” is that genres come back from the dead, sometimes wanting to eat the brains of innocent victims, other times just wanting to get the recognition they didn’t get the…

  • Interview: National Skyline

    Well, colour me surprised, because one of my fave musicians of all time, Jeff Garber, kindly agreed for this interview. I grew up listening to many of the bands he performed but my clear fave has always been National Skyline. After a bit of radio silence, National Skyline came back with Love Letters for the…

  • Review: Molly McGuire – III

    2014 has seen the return of many a thing that seemed dearly departed. Failure came back. Space Rock bands seem to be getting a good amount of love. Molly McGuire is back too. Yes! 18 years after the Ken Andrews’ produced monster Lime, Molly Mcguire release III, a brutal journey through the moors of Space Rock…