The Dirty Nil: Free Rein to Passions February 24, 2024I was never a metal guy. As if that needed to be said. It just never became part...
Sleater-Kinney: Call the Doctor February 21, 2024Layered and angry and somehow both messy and completely controlled, it feels like a high-pitched, swirling cry to...
Quasi: Breaking the Balls of History July 17, 2023It’s been a minute (and about seventeen years) since I last copped a Quasi album. That would have...
The Dirty Nil: Fuck Art January 26, 2021I’m thinking that at some level this is the band that Weezer thinks it is. This kind of...
Wolf Parade: Thin Mind February 11, 2020There was a time when Wolf Parade was “challenging” music. But it seems the owners of that tradition have spun that mantle off to side projects and personal quibbles. Or
The Dirty Nil: Master Volume October 14, 2018Rock and fuckin’ roll, man! Like the stuff they used to play at stadiums before pop and hip-hop...
Wolf Parade: Cry Cry Cry December 13, 2017I can’t remember how many years I’ve been listening to Wolf Parade, though it seems like forever. I...
Los Campesinos!: Romance is Boring January 4, 2011What happened to my spazzy Welsh peeps? Are they headed down a path to being “serious” musicians. This...
