In the blogs this week
Hopefully everyone has checked out Aquarium Drunkard lately and snagged all the Ryan Adams rarities he’s posted lately. Unfortunately he removed Suicide Handbook and 48 Hours, but you can still get the awesome XM Radio Loft Sessions. Highly recommended. And although it’s not a blog, Radio Indie Pop has the new Mogwai album Mr. Beast (Read more…)
An incomplete history of Chicago punk rock (vol. 4)
What can I tell you about Apocalypse Hoboken that you don’t already know? Probably quite a bit. They existed in one form or another from 1987 until 2004 or so. I’m not really sure about the end date but that isn’t of any great importance. What is important here is the music. Apocalypse Hoboken has (Read more…)
Review: Voltage – Building The Bass Castle, Vol. 1 (or) not at all similar to back in black
Voltage is a noisemaking duo comprised of Chicagoans Erik Schwartz and Todd Bailey. Their particular brand of instrumental noise rock mayhem is often compared to that of Hella but I’d have a hard time putting exactly what they do into words. Avant-garde but structured. “Bailey plays a vacuum-tube based synthesizer of his own design which (Read more…)
Balladeering by clementine jones
Man In Gray is a Brooklyn quintet that (according to their press kit), “Plays noisy, whip-smart indie rock with one pretty guitar, one ferocious guitar, one punk bass, and one jackhammer drummer. Screams and whispers from Tina rise above the mayhem like a lightning rod, drawing it all together. With songs about shock, awe, and (Read more…)
