Jul 11, 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). Jencik held the tenderest thought...
Jul 9, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, Interviews, News & Notes
Richard Birkin is a recording artist and composer for TV & Film. His work has been recorded/performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra quartet, ISKRA Strings and Sinfonia Viva players; recorded at Abbey Road Studio 2 and Nils Frahm’s Durton Studio; featured in...
Jul 9, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
There’s a kind of quiet violence in how music is consumed today—flattened into background noise, sonic perfume fed into algorithms, sold as lifestyle. It’s entertainment as anesthesia. Sound without the weight. The Spiritual Sound, the new full-length from Los...
Jul 9, 2025 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Baroness recently wrapped up a sold-out, East Coast tour featuring intimate performances of the band’s seminal Red Album and Blue Record in their entirety. The band now brings the tour to Western North America with a newly announced slate of fall dates. “West...
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...