SunDog - "About You" | Album Review
Cults - "To The Ghosts" | Album Review
Queens of the Stone Age - "Queens of the Stone Age" (Reissue) | Album Review
Despite marking the debut of one of the most influential rock bands of their generation, Queens of the Stone Age’s self-titled first album didn’t blaze a bold, new trail. Instead, the 1998 release built an off-ramp connecting a remote stretch of desert highway to a skeevy dance club, where Josh Homme could take residence.
The Dracu-las - "Fall Asleep When I'm Dead" | Album Review
The mirthfully macabre album art on The Dracu-Las recent 7-inch that evokes both arterial and ocean sprays provides a warm invitation for a certain kind of listener to sit back and enjoy the show, and the tunes on Fall Asleep When I'm Dead ensure that once those listeners tune in, they won’t be turning the station.
A Giant Dog - "Bite" | Album Review
Bite is a sweeping sci-fi concept album about a virtual reality that promises blissful perfection that it can’t deliver on. The record uses those trappings to grapple with big topics – the perils of choosing your own reality, the inherent value of messy humanity in an artificially intelligent world, gender dysphoria – using equally big sounds.