May 18, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Growing old sucks, but there comes a point in your life when it becomes a necessity to ignore the pull to constantly wild out. “When this band started in LA, it was a crazy time in my life,” says Smirk mastermind Nick Vicario. “I was crashing cars, doing drugs– I was...
May 18, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Monolord shares a final preview of their forthcoming album Neverending (May 29, Relapse Records) with today’s release of “It’s Neverending,” featuring guest vocalist Jörgen Sandström of Grave, formerly of Entombed. “I did the growling on the demo, but it took...
May 18, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Time stands stunningly still on The Final Painting, the dreamy, elegiac final album from legendary underground singer-songwriter/poet/painter Ed Askew. Out July 31, his posthumous album is a bracing meditation on gay romance and the slow shuffle off our mortal coil,...
May 15, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Primus dropped a surprise E.P. today titled “A Handful Of Nugs”. The four songs are a preview of sorts that will eventually lead to a new full length album set to be released next year. The record features the new single “The Ol’ Grizz.” as well as...
May 15, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, Interviews, News & Notes
Lux Solaire describes themselves as “An experiment that seeks to find a path to the soul of the author; and art project.” I caught up with Dimetriy Starkgard-Venier aka Lux Solaire to talk about their early musical experiences, how they started playing...
May 14, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Pines of Rome first emerged in 1999, released another LP in 2003 and then disappeared for 20 years. They re-emerged in 2023 with The Unstruck Bell, and now have announced a new release, When You Are As Full As The Moon, out on the LA label Solid Brass on 6/19. The...
