As the frontman of such acts as Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Weird War, and more, Ian Svenonius has never shied away from melding high concept with Album Reviews
Escape-ism
The Lost Record
September 11th, 2018 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
As the frontman of such acts as Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Weird War, and more, Ian Svenonius has never shied away from melding high concept with
Alice Bag, Blueprint
Bush Tetras, Take the Fall
May 17th, 2018 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Punk rock was still genuinely dangerous as the ‘70s melted away into the ‘80s. Even in major cities like Los Angeles and New York, being a punk meant being
Mount Eerie
Now Only
May 17th, 2018 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Using your life as fodder for your art seems to be the expected default when you’re a musician. But that can be as much of a burden as it a free license. There’s
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Black Times
May 6th, 2018 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
One of the hardest things for a musician is to be a child following in your parent’s footsteps. That shadow can be long and unforgiving. For every
The Damned
Evil Spirits
May 3rd, 2018 | by Chris Sabbath | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
I know what you’re probably thinking because I’ve already been there myself. I love The Damned to pieces, but don’t necessarily want to hear anything new by them
Hide
Castration Anxiety
April 25th, 2018 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Heather Gabel isn’t hiding from anyone. Not anymore. She and percussionist Seth Sher are quite blunt throughout Castration Anxiety, the duo’s debut
Superchunk
What a Time to Be Alive
April 17th, 2018 | by Nate Knaebel | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
It’s fair to say that over their near 30-year career Superchunk has never made a bad album. That’s notable for just about any band, let alone one completely left
The Men
Drift
April 12th, 2018 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
For a long stretch of their career, The Men never lacked for identity, despite making a gargantuan shift to their sound. In their first phase (through Leave
The Monochrome Set
Maisieworld
April 3rd, 2018 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Shoutout to the bands that can’t seem to stop being a band no matter what the world throws at them. History tends to flatten out the past to only include
Oneida
Romance
March 21st, 2018 | by Richard Sanford | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Romance presents Brooklyn avant-rock juggernaut Oneida at its punchiest and most concise. The band’s first studio album since 2012’s sprawling A List of