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Mike Rep and the Quotas
Hellbender

September 16th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Primitive Futures | Leave A Comment »

Mike Rep and the Quotas Hellbender It certainly wasn't the fifth beer or the extreme mid-August Ohio heat that brought on the fever dream a few weeks back. The epiphanic reaction that

Sleeping Beauties
Sleeping Beauties

August 11th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Primitive Futures | Leave A Comment »

Sleeping Beauties Sleeping Beauties Despite having been broken up for nearly eight years, 2016 has been a big year for The Hunches. Almost Ready records released a set of shelved demos, marking

The Hunches
The Hunches

May 31st, 2016  |  by  |  published in Primitive Futures | 1 Comment »

The Hunches The Hunches The Hunches surfaced in the waking years of this century to hit a nerve that desperately needed hitting. Playing a cacophonic, gritty kind of rock & roll, they

Gate
Saturday Night Fever

March 29th, 2016  |  by  |  published in Primitive Futures | Leave A Comment »

Gate Saturday Night Fever As one of the founding members of New Zealand’s long-running and highly lauded Dead C, Michael Morley is royalty within the kiwi experimental

Matt Kivel
Janus

March 3rd, 2016  |  by  |  published in Primitive Futures | Leave A Comment »

Matt Kivel Janus Matt Kivel’s records have always been really beautiful. Previously on Double Exposure and Days of Being Wild, he focused on creating a hushed atmosphere to

Introducing…
Ultimate Painting

September 21st, 2015  |  by  |  published in Primitive Futures | Leave A Comment »

Introducing… Ultimate Painting New Zealand is a thing. When you're describing music, it's a thing you use to describe certain music. And what is the definable NZ sound, you may ask. Well

Introducing…
EZTV

July 6th, 2015  |  by  |  published in Primitive Futures | Leave A Comment »

Introducing… EZTV Everyday in Brooklyn—Williamsburg, to be more specific—hundreds of wannabe career musicians are wallowing down a boulevard of broken

An Interview with
Dick Diver

March 30th, 2015  |  by  |  published in Primitive Futures | Leave A Comment »

An Interview withDick Diver Dick Diver, despite the alliteration, isn't a name that rolls off the tongue. Even as a reference to an F. Scott Fitzgerald character, it also doesn't do much to

Mourn
Mourn

February 27th, 2015  |  by  |  published in Primitive Futures | Leave A Comment »

Mourn Mourn Please don’t tell me how good a Sleater-Kinney album is in 2015. This isn't supposed to be some regenerative proclamation in a new year of music. It is

Stark Folk Band
“Modern Times”

December 15th, 2014  |  by  |  published in Primitive Futures | Leave A Comment »

Stark Folk Band “Modern Times” “Something’s gotta happen, something’s gotta change,” seems like a familiar refrain in the world of cagey guitar rock, the product of boredom, teenage ennui