Suburban Living

Suburban Living—How To Be Human

Philly’s Suburban Living Releases their Best Album Yet Suburban Living How To Be Human Egghunt Records Links: Official Site | Bandcamp | Egghunt Records It’s not that it has been over three years since Suburban Living conceptualized new material, it’s that it’s been over three years since Suburban Living dropped … Read More ›

Royal Trux on Selective Memory

Royal Trux – White Stuff Review

Royal Trux – White Stuff ★★★★   It felt like a shock wave punching me in the face when Royal Trux announced that after fifteen years they would break an unspoken hiatus. I thought we had left Royal Trux back in the ‘90s covered with disenfranchised rock and roll dust. … Read More ›

Hungry For Stink Album Cover from L7

L7 is Hungry Again with Vinyl Re-Issue

Real Gone Music Re-issues L7’s Hungry For Stink on vinyl In 1994, people were wafting on the effects of bands like The Breeders and Luscious Jackson. Kim Gordon was giving the ‘90s power stance on “Bull In the Heather,” while Kathleen Hannah propelled a riot grrl revolution with Pussy Whipped. … Read More ›

Love Agenda Album Cover by Band Of Susans

Band of Susans – Love Agenda

A Look Back at Band of Susans’ Noise Rock Symphony—Love Agenda As Robert Poss readies his solo album, Frozen Flowers Curse The Day, his current work is more intricate these days. The songs are more soundtrack in essence than his past sonic architecture. Frozen Flower Curse The Day is hauntingly … Read More ›

Aztec Camera on Selective Memory

Aztec Camera – High Land, Hard Rain

Donimo Records Re-Releases Aztec Camera’s Essential Album High Land, Hard Rain It’s 2014 and we are embarking on some critical 30th anniversary anniversaries. Depeche Mode’s Some Great Reward, Echo and the Bunnymen’s Porcupine, and The Smith’s self-titled were just a few albums to dominate the European alternative markets. This year, … Read More ›

Cheetahs album cover

Cheetahs – Cheetahs

Cheatahs Cheatahs Wichita Recordings ★★★ What was I saying? Oh yes…Cheatahs! My apologies for getting off topic. As we listen through their self-titled album, you can clearly see it is easy to become distracted by their sonic sound. You kind of forget where you are as easily as you forget … Read More ›

High Land, Hard Rain album cover by Aztec Camera

Turn off the Radio: Aztec Camera – High Land, Hard Rain

Aztec Camera Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of High Land, Hard Rain thanks to Domino Records It’s 2014 and we are embarking on some critical 30th anniversary anniversaries. Depeche Mode’s Some Great Reward, Echo and the Bunnymen’s Porcupine, and The Smith’s self-titled were just a few albums to dominate the European … Read More ›

Farewell Young Lovers album cover from Crushed Stars

Crushed Stars – Farewell Young Lovers

Crushed Stars Farewell Young Lovers Similacra Records ★★★★★ It’s snowing . . . again. It has been off and on for weeks now. Some nights are worse than others. Right now, it’s a culmination of snow falling from the sky and snow being wistfully blown around forming drifts. The cold … Read More ›