The Traps-Boom Pow Awesome Wow (Burger Records)

The Traps-Boom Pow Awesome Wow (Burger Records)

  Garage reissue falls flat The description of this record on Burger Records website tells me that this is a long lost gem from the 2003-2004 noise rock scene. Cool and exciting as this may sound, The Traps, for all their noise and heaviness and loud guitars, are...
Burial-Rival Dealer (Hyperdub)

Burial-Rival Dealer (Hyperdub)

  Selfie-advocate AND talented Burial‰’s material is so scarcely released that, at this point, every EP, every single, every selfie, is followed with a firestorm of coverage from every corner of the ‰electronic‰’ music community, and rightfully so....

Minutia: The Replacements – "Answering Machine"

For a band best known for their pubescent humor and alcohol-drowned performances (which occasionally were just meltdowns), The Replacements left quite the mark on alternative rock, gathering citations as one of the forefathers of the now uselessly broad genre of indie...

Under the Tide: Tony Sly

I‰’m not one to mourn when someone who doesn‰’t have a discernible effect on my life passes on. When one of the lead singers who belonged to a band which I used to listen to a fair amount in high school died unexpectedly, it‰’s fair to say that I...