The War on Drugs – ‘Lost in the Dream’ (2014)
I’m standing around the back hall after the El Ten Eleven show talking with a group of self proclaimed music people, and naturally the conversation turns to War...
Life Stinks interview with Chad, Whitney and Vinnie
© Monique R Life Stinks is everything that is right and holy about punk music, all the while channeling the recent psych garage rock revival by turning it...
Total Control – Henge Beat (2011) review
Total Control "Henge Beat" (Iron Lungs Records, 2011) https://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/henge-beat-lp While this album has been out for a few years now I find myself constantly returning to it. A...
Ausmuteants interview with Kurt
It’s hard to even talk about Ausmuteants without sounding like a raving madman or a dedicated music nerd. They have this really cool sound that boarders on the...
Echo & the Bunnymen – Echo & the Bunnymen (1987) review
Building on their reputation of moody atmospheres and psychedelic concept [of sorts] albums, Echo and The Bunnymen climbed to dizzying heights back in the mid 1980’s, with the...
Children of The Stones – The Stars and The Silence (2014) review
Children of The Stones “The Stars and The Silence” (Saint Marie, 2014) Here is the full length we alluded to in our review of last month’s “Extended Play”...
Eidetic Seeing interview with Sean Forlenza, Paul Feitzinger and Danilo Randjic-Coleman
I don’t often play an album at the house where my father pops in from the other room to see who I’m playing, or my roommate pulls up...
Magic Carpet interview
Magic Carpet was formed in 1971 by Alisha Sufit (singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist), Clem Alford (sitar, esraj), Jim Moyes (guitar), and Keshav Sathe (Indian tabla / percussion). Magic...
Odonis Odonis – Better EP (2013) review
Odonis Odonis - "Better" EP (Buzz Records, 2013) http://buzzrecordsto.bandcamp.com/album/better-ep Sometimes an album is hard to describe. Taking elements of surf rock, noise and industrial rock, and sludgy as...
Trappist Afterland Band – ‘Like A Beehive, The Hill Was Alive’ (2014) review
Nathan Ford recently expanded his popular music blog The Active Listener into the realm of digital downloads, making some of his favourite releases available to the masses. The...