Having landed on the solstice, the release date for the latest from Centro-matic, Candidate Waltz, is timed perfectly for the album to become everyone’s favorite summer jam. And in a just world, the album’s songs would be on repeat in iPods and on radio stations across … Read More →
When Paul Cary, former front man for Iowa’s rowdy garage-punks, The Horrors, left that band and relocated to Chicago, he went to work penning the tunes that would make up his often stark but no less rockin’ debut lp, Ghost of a Man. The Windy … Read More →
The nineties-nodding Horse Marriage has obvious reverence for its reference points and cruises the indie highway–windows rolled down and stereo cranked up–from the west coast slacker vibe of Pavement to the east coast guitar grind of Dinosaur Jr. Formed by Stewart Adams and Dave McPeters, … Read More →
Nine minutes of pummeling bliss. If it were fire, it would melt mountains. If it were a mountain, no fire could melt it. Somehow it’s both. “Prepare The Ground,” the opening track on Eugene, Oregon doom metal trio YOB‘s forthcoming lp, Atma, is scorching and … Read More →
Ed Askew. Starlight in Brooklyn.
Back in April I wrote a bit about Ed Askew and his intimate portraits of life’s smaller moments. This week los grillos received from Mr. Askew a welcome note regarding what I had to say about the recent reissue of his album, Imperfiction, and with … Read More →