Where the fuck is it? I’m toiling around the streets, knowing I am vaguely close because of the shift in quality of graffiti. A guy as equally confused as I am is spying the environs on this corner of Wyckoff and Weirfeld, looking for a music venue. He spots it first. The name Trans-Pecos is… Read More A Friday Night With Claire Dickson, Dolphin Hyperspace, and CGI Jesus
If you’re one of the person who follows this blog, you know my obsession with rising stars Thumpasaurus is practically diagnosable. So in following the individual careers of its members, I learned that Los Angeles-based bassist Logan Kane is a scene unto himself. The dude is prolific, having put out projects with Thump bandmate Henry… Read More An Idiot’s Guide to Experimental Jazz – Logan Kane’s Laser Cars EP
Based out of Atlanta, Georgia, Collective Soul is a quintet that has been weaving huge threads in the fabric of rock music for nearly thirty years. Fronted by Ed Roland, they seem to have found their longevity in the cohesion of their current roster. “I mean, this is the band for the rest of my… Read More Collective Soul’s Eleventh Album – Vibrating
In another “near miss,” I almost made the mistake of sleeping on STORRY. Hailing from Toronto, this self-produced songstress and JUNO award nominee putting out eclectic R&B and pop. “Intimate Abuse” is her latest offering, celebrating real love thriving in the shadow of abuse. STORRY’s voice simmers with impassioned thriving. She is a soul child… Read More STORRY – Intimate Abuse video
During my annual May/June burnout I ended up sleeping on some incoming tunes that needed to be heard, but I knew I had to go back to through the inbox for May release “Sour in the Sun” by Scarlett Flynn. Woozy bass and keys paint a downtempo portrait behind Flynn’s enigmatic voice. It sounds a… Read More Sour in the Sun – Scarlett Flynn
From the minds of melodic masters comes a new bag of dreamy alt-rock tunes. The Lickerish Quartet is comprised of Jellyfish alumni Eric Dover, Roger Joseph Manning Jr, and Tim Smith (the fourth member of the quartet must be WE, the listeners). Unlike Volume 1 and Volume 2, THREESOME: Volume 3 is spacier and dreamier,… Read More The Lickerish Quartet does it again: THREESOME Vol: 3
Les Cooper knows how to set the mood. Hailing from the Toronto area, this multi-instrumentalist and producer has a long history of orchestrating ambivances through working with musicians, symphonies, and television shows. With his new release Noise, Cooper uses his decades of skills to paint portraits of uncertainty. Gentle but tinkling rhythms and a solid… Read More Les Cooper’s new album Noise is Pensive and Engaging
Cut to a chilly Saturday night at Bowery Ballroom. The stores are closed, but whole street glistens with spray-painted names and signs. A young *somebody* in a hand-altered hoodie is having his photo and video taken by onlookers. A clown-faced goth waits for her friends in front of a tequila bar. Randoms donned in black… Read More An Evening with Ho99o9, N8NOFACE, and Hoddy, The Young Jedi
Conduit of Humanity is less of a band and more of a collective. Spearheaded by alt-popper Fred Jeske and engineer Joe Maydak, Conduit of Humanity is a vehicle for 90s-style alt and prog collaborations with various artists through the magic of COVID-era dropbox technology. Their newest project, Siren Songs from Another World, is a lamentation… Read More New Album from Conduit of Humanity – Siren Songs from Another World
I was doing some tourism in Oaxaca last February. Oaxaca is a punk town, painted in street art and radical graffiti. It’s not without reason – Oaxaca is a locus for economic and racial inequality in Mexico. Music and art posters are wet-glued to the same walls where spraypaint scrawls decry the harms of capitalism,… Read More Outside Looking In at the Mexican Goth & Post Punk Scene
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