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Automatic Widens Their Scope to Confront Corporate Chaos
As the post-punk lashings continue through Automatic's sophomore effort Excess , the Los Angeles trio synthesize a new strain of...

Joe Massaro
Feb 15, 2023


Kiwi Jr: "'Chopper' Is Not a Genre Switch or Anything Like That, It's Just Drawing From a Deeper Part of The Same Well"
Whereas Kiwi Jr.'s first two albums — 2019's Football Money and 2021's Cooler Returns showcased the band's hooky, yet-hard edged jangle...

Joe Massaro
Feb 13, 2023


Billy Tibbals Taps The Source Code to Power Pop Glory
A new wave of power pop has struck the Sunset Strip and Billy Tibbals is right at the heart of the action especially coming off his debut...

Joe Massaro
Feb 9, 2023


Behind Tav Falco's Strange Brew of 'Art-Damaged' Rock 'n' Roll
When Memphis legend Tav Falco made his television debut on a now infamous episode of WHBQ-TV's local weekday morning program, Straight...

Joe Massaro
Feb 7, 2023


Romero: Pure Pop for Now People
Call it chance, but the Melbourne group Romero are red-hot right now. Back in April, the five-piece released their long-awaited debut...

Joe Massaro
Feb 2, 2023


Absorbing The Chameleonic Sounds of Zak Olsen
Back in the fall of '21, the prolific Naarm/Melbourne multi-instrumentalist Zak Olsen returned with his third album under the Traffik...

Joe Massaro
Jan 31, 2023


Private Lives: Deceivingly Facile Melodies and Glorious Riffing
Last fall, the newly-formed Montreal four-piece Private Lives unveiled their self-titled debut EP through the always reliable Feel It...

Joe Massaro
Jan 30, 2023


The Post-Punk Tenacity and Unshakable Presence of Sweeping Promises
In late 2019, the then Boston-based post-punk duo Sweeping Promises descended into a converted concrete laboratory with a single...

Joe Massaro
Jan 26, 2023


Peace De Résistance: Demented Glam Punk for the Twenties
With his solo recording project Peace De Résistance, Moses Brown has crawled out of the sewers from his roots in favor of "demented glam"...

Joe Massaro
Jan 24, 2023


Jon Spencer & the HITmakers Defy Rock 'n' Roll Gravity
Following up 2018's Spencer Sings the Hits!, prolific "gunk-punk" dynamo Jon Spencer returned last year with the second HITmakers album,...

Joe Massaro
Jan 19, 2023


Absorbing the Hellish World of Science Man
Out of the lab and into the streets, Science Man is the ever-evolving and enigmatic one-man band project of DIY demigod John Toohill,...

Joe Massaro
Jan 18, 2023


The Exbats: Garage Doo-Wop from the Heart
Effortlessly traversing genres, The Exbats move between '60s girl groups, teenage tragedy songs, bubblegum garage pop and trashy rock 'n'...
Julia Derwas
Jan 17, 2023
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