Jul 8, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
With DELUXE EDITION, Nihilistic Easyrider’s Jacob Duarte provides us with diaristic vignettes of a life in perpetual motion, offering a more introspective view into the preoccupations of a songwriter whose life revolves around the stage but is ultimately lived...
Jul 1, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Despite the outright denial in its title, death is present in every one of the songs on Never Die, the collaborative album from Midwife’s Madeline Johnston and Matt Jencik (of Implodes, Don Caballero, and Slint’s live band) — out next Friday on Relapse...
Jul 1, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
There’s an obscured beauty and a slithering cool that oozes throughout First Taste of Heaven– It’s raw and driving, powerful and playful, all with direct songwriting that is as revelatory as it is mysterious and compelling. Nuclear Daisies is made up of Austin...
Jul 1, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
For two weeks in 2023, Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke toured a wonderful passage in Europe through France, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland. Pareidolia, out August 29 on Drag City, shapes an ideal collage from the best resonances and relationships from those nights....
Jun 30, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, Interviews, News & Notes
Janus 4-14 are a three piece indie rock band based in Mount Airy, North Carolina. Their latest E.P. “Blue To Infinity” echoes the spirits of artists like The Replacements, Elvis Costello and Sebadoh. I caught up with Vocalist/guitarist Chad Barnard, lead...
Jun 27, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Nothingland is a rock band who traverse the ethos of heavy harmonic structures, saturated riffs, and odd-meter rhythms. Based in Ellensburg, Washington their latest E.P. “Chroma” features five tracks that are absolutely genius. Things start off with...
