Kurt Vile – ‘God Is Saying This to You…’ (2009)
If anything, Kurt Vile’s 'God Is Saying This To You …' will instantly spark memories of the godfather of low-fi, John Fahey, and though more than half of...
Baby Jesus interview
Where do you even begin with the wild, psychotic, madness that is Baby Jesus? Walls of reverberating noise implode into themselves, fractured sounds and howled vocals decimating the...
Dissipated Face | Interview | “Fearless in exploring the better parts of free music”
'Live at CBGB 1986' is a long-buried document finally seeing daylight. Roaratorio Records unleashes these previously unheard recordings from the legendary NYC venue, capturing Dissipated Face at their...
Bass Drum Of Death – Rip This (2014) review
Bass Drum Of Death "Rip This" (Innovative Leisure Records, 2014) Over the past few years Bass Drum Of Death has transformed from a lo-fi home recording project into...
Bo Street Runners “Never Say Goodbye: The Complete Recordings 1964-1966” (2014) review
Bo Street Runners “Never Say Goodbye: The Complete Recordings 1964-1966” (RPM, 2014) A band given far too little attention during their brief lifespan (1963-1966), 2014 has seen efforts...
The Pink Tiles interview
With all of the Aussie music I hear people talking about here in the US, it’s predominantly seriously skuzzy, hardcore, lo-fi, brain damaging sludge punk, and don’t get...
Jakob Skøtt – Taurus Rising (2014) review
Jakob Skøtt “Taurus Rising” (El Paraiso, 2014) The third album from the Causa Sui drummer is much more than an exercise in annoying the shit out of your...
Lori Goldston interview
I’ve been into Lori Goldston basically since I can remember getting into music. Her cello is one of the major factors that helped propel Nirvana’s Unplugged In New...
Bob Dylan and The Band – The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes – Raw (2014) review
Bob Dylan and The Band - The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes - Raw (Legacy, 2014) I've been toying with the Basement Tapes since I first...
Junkyard Genius & The Common Ground interview with Sal Pauciello & Peter Minde
Sal worked out a good share of his originals on the six-string acoustic. Here he's in mid-1993 when he did demos that led to the Wiretap CD. Sal...