Jul 7, 2023 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
One of the vanguards of the 90’s underground, punk/hardcore community, San Diego’s Heroin released their first 7” in 1991 before disbanding in 1993. In that short time, the band went on to influence countless post-hardcore and screamo bands of that era and into today....
Jul 6, 2023 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
What if a sophisticated composer had scored a 70’s prison-break flick where the escape never happens, and instead just slowly amplifies the internal turmoil and existential dread of everyday life, Morricone style? No need to speculate: Emil Amos’ latest single,...
Jul 6, 2023 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Boris and Third Man Records are excited to present Heavy Rocks (2002) on LP and digital formats for the first time ever (+ a CD format re-press), 21 years since it first surfaced. Its original release in 2002 circulated only domestically in Boris’ home base of Japan,...
Jul 6, 2023 | Dave Allison, Features, Interviews, News & Notes
Alexander LaFollett (pronounced La-FALL-it) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, music theorist, and educator, based in Oregon. Their latest album “Electrical Gremlin” is a wild ride, that features eight tracks of instrumental music for strings and...
Jun 30, 2023 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
[Eagle Noise] are alternative rock band based in Los Angels. Their latest album “This Machine” is a fine collection of uplifting songs full of chiming guitars and heartfelt vocals. I sat down with members Casey Simonson, Dan Gumienny, Max Marcy and Matthew...
Jun 29, 2023 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Recorded in 1995 and 1996, mostly in John Fahey’s room at a Salem, Oregon boardinghouse, the performances on Proofs and Refutations prefigure the ornery turn of the page that marked Fahey’s final years, drawing another enigmatic rabbit from his seemingly bottomless...
