Allah-Las – ‘LAHS’ (2019)
I’ll freely admit to being less than enamored with the last two albums from the Allah Las. It’s not that those records were inherently bad, it’s just that...
Reviews
Clouds Taste Satanic – ‘Second Sight’ (2019)
Clouds Taste Satanic is my favorite instrumental (or should I say instruMETAL?) group. Playing a metal meets stoner style of music, this Brooklyn based group weaves intricate patterns...
A 50th Anniversary Walk Down Abbey Road
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Abbey Road, the last album recorded by the Beatles. The album holds significance in the annals of popular music...
Stew – ‘People’ (2019)
In 2018, the Swedish band Stew offered up a 4 track EP; an EP that was called Hot, and those songs sizzle and burn brighter than any flame;...
The Menzingers – ‘Hello Exile’ (2019)
A whole lot of fun ... The Menzingers, a Philadelphia quartet, by way of Scranton, find themselves on a solid ground with Hello Exile, complete with anthem laced...
Haq – ‘Evaporator’ (2019)
Evaporator is the sophomore album from the international trio Haq, a collaborative effort between Japanese duo N-qia (vocalist Nozomi and sounds programmer Takma) and prolific Edinburgh artist Harold...
Humble Pie – ‘Tourin’: The Official Bootleg Box Set Volume 4’
Drummer Jerry Shirley continues the series of live releases by Humble Pie with this four disc release including two shows from 1974, one in Germany, the other in...
The Babe Rainbow – ‘Today’ (2019)
Babe Rainbow have taken a few moments from their hypnotic wayward wonderings and dropped by a postcard in the form of Today, a fine breezy funky laidback record...
Jim Sullivan – ‘If the Evening Were Dawn’ (2019)
With the glut of reissue labels that have emerged over the past few decades, it can be a mess to try and sort through all of the supposed...
Vanishing Twin – ‘The Age of Immunology’ (2019)
Another pleasing and disconnected record that resounds and embodies a variety of structures visions attitudes and genres, sounding at times entirely yet warmly haunting, while both of this...