Admittedly, the first time I caught blogosphere sensation Total Slacker live at a loft party/music venue in industrial Bushwick, I wasn’t super impressed – I immediately caught their druggy, Nirvana/90s alternative rock sound and wasn’t […]
Tag: Nirvana
The Seattle, WA-based quintet the Young Evils have developed a reputation across the Pacific Northwest of infectious and sugary pop hooks and angular guitars – in fact, on the band’s latest single “Touch Tone Lovers” […]
A Q&A with The Lonely Wild’s Andrew Carroll
The Los Angeles-based band, The Lonely Wild’s debut EP, Dead End landed at number 19 on this site’s Best of 2011 list. Through that debut, the band won quite a bit of attention throughout the blogosphere, and […]
“Waste Away,” is the first single off Brooklyn trio Dead Stars’ forthcoming EP, High Gain, which will be released on June 4th through Uninhabitable Mansions Records, and the track sonically should probably remind you of 90s […]
A Q&A with Shelly Bhushan
Six years ago, I was started a stint as a freelance music journalist for the now-defunct Astoria, NY/Long island City-based publication, Ins&Outs Magazine. As a result of publishing a review of Interpol‘s Antics, I was invited to the […]
a Q&A with Grave Babies’ Danny Wahlfeldt
Back in 2011, Grave Babies released the Pleasures 7" and with it’s densely layered, murky, dissonant and punishingly loud sound was one of the most interesting albums I had come across that year. In fact, it landed […]
Kurt Cobain would have turned 46 on February 20th, and in the case of all of those musicians who have left way too soon, there’s always the haunting question of “What If?” Nirvana’s Unplugged in […]
Album Reviews
As a blogger my email inbox gets inundated with requests to cover an ever-widening variety of artists, and I really can’t complain about that because I wind up getting introduced to a bunch of new […]
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=2814135316/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/ Jeffery Drag Records has put together a collection of their best singles, exclusive B sides, forthcoming releases and overall best of 2012 for their Winter mixtape. I’ve played this several times and it’s a […]
As you can imagine, as a blogger I frequently get inundated with emails from PR firms, labels and bands and there’s admittedly a wild variety of the good, the bad, the mediocre, and the absolutely […]
Originally based in Southern Illinois and now based in Los Angeles, the duo of Ashton and Caleb Bird, a.k.a Tweak Bird have released a sweaty and intense video for “The Weight, ” which from what […]