From The Rust Of Detroit A Phoenix Rises – Crime & the City Solution’s “American Twilight”
Simon Bonney’s been lost in the wilderness, or so it would seem. Not heard from in...
Author: Dave Cantrell
Gramme Get To Ze Post-Punk Heart Of Things
Remember that menacing, relentless, skewed funk that came thumping up out of the post-punk underground in...
Slapp Happy Ecstasy – Peter Blegvad & Andy Partridge’s “Gonwards”
Swindon and Hamburg haven’t much in common. Swindon is a landlocked railroad town midway between Reading...
Girls Names – The New Life
What’s it say about a record that, the first time you’ve done listening to it, you...
A Walk Into Immortality – Leigh Marble’s “Where The Knives Meet Between The Rows” – w/interview
Thanks to “Portlandia,” all the world is now on spoofingly intimate terms with our puddle-pocked city’s...
The Distractions: A Band Deliriously Out of Time
A few days after Christmas, 1979, I was on a plane coming home from London, a...
Not All Who Wander Are Lost – The Puddle’s “Secret Holiday and Victory Blues” (w/interview)
Among the underground-slash-indie cognoscenti, it is exceedingly rare for a band to be both legend and a secret. ...
Beat Hotel – “The Best of Our Years”
Already in Beat Hotel you’ve got Arash Torabi, one of the finest pop bassists in the...
Slaying Cynics In Its Path – The Joyous Heartbreak of Human Switchboard
As a fan of American post-punk, one of the many impressions that may wash over you...
Efflorescence, Beauty, Decay – The Wild Swans “The Coldest Winter For A Hundred Years”
Sometimes the cover of an album, more than the song titles, more even than what you...