Spiral Wave Nomads - "Spiral Wave Nomads" | Album Review
Spiral Wave Nomads reach a little further, drawing influence from free improvisation, jazz, noise, raga, folk, and ambient music, mapping out a vast galaxy of guitar swirls, bass bellows, and drum storms. Eric Hardiman and Michael Kiefer combine their powers to quilt together a delicious menagerie of tunes.
Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else - "Hot Spring" | Album Review
The singer-songwriter plays his cards with a deep authenticity of authorship and puts his creative soul in dialogue with themes such as death, loneliness, and war. Radcliffe's vision, through the delicate sounds of guitar, cello, and effects created by the eccentric pedals, makes us feel in relation to the earth, to the terrestriality.
J. Robbins - "Un-Becoming" | Album Review
Nicole Yun - "Supernatural Babe" Video | Post-Trash Premiere
Imperial Wax - "Gastwerk Saboteurs" | Album Review
Over the course of eleven years and six albums, Keiron Melling, Dave Spurr, and Pete Greenway formed behind Mark E. Smith as the final and longest iteration of The Fall. After Smith’s passing, they recruited Sam Curran for vocal duties and formed Imperial Wax, the name being a nod to the first album they all played on together as The Fall, and have put out their first album Gastwerk Saboteurs.
Toyzanne - "Chores" LP | Post-Trash Premiere
After a string of lead up singles, the band will release Chores, their full length debut via Make Believe on July 22nd. The release is wildly expansive, a post-punk marathon that twists and turns through uncommon structures and a variety of sonic temperaments, all drawn under the same lo-fi recordings.
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Gomme - "Absent Healing" | Album Review
Mr. Husband - "Kenny Husband & The Husky Section" | Album Review
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Divorce Cop - "What?" EP | Post-Trash Premiere
The band’s debut EP, What?, clocks in at a lean six minutes and five tracks, an economical approach to noise punk that shines in its brevity. Divorce Cop, comprised of Brock Ginther (Royal Blood), Chris Gervais (Toothbrush), and Anthony Bitetti (Great Western Plain), each bring a little something of their own to the ramshackle recordings,
Apex Manor - "Heartbreak City" | Album Review
Dumb - "CBC Radio 3" | Post-Trash Premiere
Squitch "Chamomileon" + Wet Mut "The Swimmer" | Post-Trash Premiere
Acquaintances - "8 1/2 Lives" | Album Review
A sort-of supergroup, Acquaintances boasts members who have played with The Ponys, The Poison Arrows, Don Caballero, Ted Leo + the Pharmacists, Titus Andronicus, and Thumbnail. The band’s latest album sounds like a group of lifers jamming in a room. They know that they’re now the older guys in the crowd, but they can still write spiny, intelligent, driving rock ‘n’ roll.
Grizzlor - "Warp Speed" | Post-Trash Premiere
Empath - "Active Listening: Night On Earth" | Album Review
J. Robbins Discusses New Album "Un-becoming" and Changes In Songwriting | Feature Interview
Un-becoming arrives on the heels of J. Robbins’ old band Jawbox’s reunion and was recorded in the cracks of work, family obligations, and between rounds of video game sessions with his son. Does this mean that Robbins, now straddling the line between musician, producer, and father, has strayed from punk and into the feared territory of “dad rock” on his new record? In a word, no.
