Norman Westberg – 13
On this three track release, Norman Westberg’s work harks back to his late-90s contributions to Swans’ final (and arguably best) album Soundtracks for the Blind, and to [...]
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Tape Me: Re-Considering Kurt Cobain’s Montage of Heck
Much commentary so far on the newly released Kurt Cobain – Montage of Heck: the Home Recordings soundtrack has been an example of how, over time, idolized figures in [...]
Smash It Up: Exploring The Riot City Blues
On the 15th May 1981, an audience thronged the stage at the Ritz in New York City awaiting their first sight of John Lydon’s Public Image Ltd. Instead, already an hour [...]
Scum Down Heavy: The Melvins interviewed
With Sonic Youth gone, The Melvins are just about the last band standing from the Eighties heyday of wild twists on the punk formula. But becoming a legend means more than [...]
Adam Golebiewski – Pool North
Improvisational records depend, for their effect, on your personal enjoyment of sound as opposed to song. If the easy comfort of verse-chorus-verse laid over a backing rhythm [...]
Kim Gordon – Girl In A Band
Nevermind, what was it anyway? I wanted to let the buzz of publisher-initiated PR coverage fade before settling down and reading Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band. The author bio [...]
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