Magnum Dopus: Suburbanova
Magnum Dopus Suburbanova (Space Mall Records) A keyboard soundscape gives way to plucked piano and big snares on Tennessee-based Magnum Dopus “8PM,” the opener on the band’s new full-length Suburbanova. More...
Vannon: Desert of Our Dreams
Vannon Desert of Our Dreams (Vannon) Oakland heavy metal-er’s Vannon throws us into Desert of Our Dreams, with their new album. Off the scary soundscape of opener “Call Up A Storm,” we get the balls-to-the-wall More...
Hippy:Â Falling in Love with Being Alive
Hippy Falling in Love with Being Alive (Hippy) A funky electric and chunky beat of “Consistently Inconsistent” begins Glasgow-based duo Hippy’s Falling in Love with Being Alive. Singer Paul Hipson and More...
THE SEX FILES: SCHTICK A POLE IN IT
Photo Credit: Paul Park SCHTICK A POLE IN IT, NYC’s best and only comedy and pole dancing show, has announced new performance dates (11/27/2021 – 1/22/2022) for an open-ended run at Drom (85 Avenue A) in the More...
Celebrity Warship Culture: Recreational Everything
Celebrity Warship Culture Recreational Everything (Celebrity Warship Culture) The moaning slow bent string plodding of “Recreational Everything” begins Celebrity Warship Culture’s new album of the same More...
National Couples and Pornography Survey 2021
As often happens from my writing connections, I get notifications of new reports like the just released National Couples and Pornography Survey 2021. “Hoping to investigate pornography, gender, and relationships More...
Brainsqueezed: I Am Not a Robot
Brainsqueezed I Am Not a Robot (Brainsqueezed) An excellent percussion bed, wailing guitar and harmonica, get us into the high-flying groove opener “More,” from Brainsqueezed’s new full-length I Am Not More...
Blake Red: The Cradle
Blake Red The Cradle (Blake Red) The odd but driving beat and distinctive riffing of “The Cradle” begins Blake Red’s new EP of the same name. The Chicago-based musician, who plays everything here, certainly More...
Paul Feder: Nightwalk
Paul Feder Nightwalk (Aion Records) Opening with a danceable snapping beat and some bleeping keys “Lose My Mind,” makes it evident that Brooklyn-based Paul Feder knows how to layer key sounds into some commercial More...
Yes: A Visual Biography
Yes A Visual Biography (Wymer Publishing) Good old prodigious music scribe Martin Popoff is at it again. His new book, Yes: A Visual Biography is yet another superb rock-picture bio, repurposed from a book More...
