Issue 30

The Vertical Struts

Damn handclaps, damn them to hell! They are the obvious reference when it is said that idle hands are the […]

Vailhalen – Pop Violence

Flashback to the 1980s, Le Chateau dressed me in my dreams, drummers were doing their best to become drum machines […]

Eric Terdjman – Rebirth

Eric wrote to me all the way from Israel (even though he’s French) to ask me to review his CD. […]

Swank – The Survival Issue

I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I can barely get anything done. I make it through the work day […]

Shuyler Jansen’s Hobotron

How a mash-up between prairie roots rock and glitchy studio trickery came to be funded by multiple levels of the […]

Primes

My role model in high school was Elissa McBride. Her dad was a Deadhead (mine liked the Irish Rovers), she […]

Precious Fathers

Is post-rock really over a decade old? When was that first Tortoise album? And what does that make me? A […]

Pocket Universe – Primal

Looks like: That goth couple from Highway 61 (one of whom was portrayed by Art Bergman!) Sounds like: A goth […]

The Parades of Noises 2004

The more I meet and work with artists and musicians and creative people, the more I realize that success is […]

North Atlantic Explorers – Skylines

Glenn D’Cruze and fourteen of his closest friends play orch-pop that sounds like it should be emerging, immaculately packaged, from […]

The Modernettes – Get It Straight

The super sounds of today – yesterday! Get it Straight would make a welcome addition to any modern indie rocker’s […]

Miriodor – Parade

There was a time when I would buy scads of music from this American label that specializes in the type […]