Merzbow Monday: CATalysis 猫媒 (Elevator Bath) album review
Masami Akita trades in his beloved birds for nature’s most perfect predator on this new one for Elevator Bath. It’s purrfection. Masami Akita‘s love of animals is well-known and well-documented. … Continue reading
Veryan & The Lonely Bell – Night Flights (Shady Ridge) album review
Two Scottish Dark Ambient artists take off for the stratosphere on this gorgeous new split for Minnesota’s Shady Ridge Records. Flying at night is a little bit peaceful, little bit … Continue reading
The Coldwave Poetry of Anne Clark’s Changing Places
Anne Clark’s debut LP still sounds fresh, inspiring, artful, gentle and beautiful 40 years later. It reminds us of a time when poetry, punk rock, new wave and electronic music … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Tauromachine (Remastered) album review
An expanded version of one of Merzbow’s most essential releases gets a slick new mix and a much-needed vinyl pressing in honor of its 25th Anniversary. Merzbow’s mid-to-late ’90s albums … Continue reading
Concert Review: Zoë Nowak: Bridging Sight, Movement, and Sound as a Transgender Artist @ Texas A&M University’s School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts
A small black box theater at Texas A&M University’s School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts transformed into a moving multimedia meditation on transformation and sound for two performances by … Continue reading
“It Is What It Is.” An Interview With Darksoft
credit/ Look Up Records “For lyrics on Beigeification, I’m using a lot of “thought-terminating cliches,” or beige phrases as I’ve come to call them,” says Darksoft, a singer/songwriter/producer/polymath from Portland, … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Collection:002 album review
Long lost to posterity, Collection:002’s recent re-emergence as part of the Collection:001 – Collection:010 from Urashima finally gives completists a chance to hear one of Merzbow’s earliest recordings in all … Continue reading
Briardark – S. A. Harian book review
Blair Witch Project meets Lost meets Annihilation meets Stranger Things in Briardark, thw otherworldly debut horror novel from Portland’s S. A. Harian. Field researcher Dr. Siena DuPont is obsessed. After … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Collection:001 album review
One of the earliest Merzbow recordings is also one of the most intriguing. Merzbow – Collection 001 album cover credit/@rateyourmusic Early ’80s Merzbow is an interesting beast. It seems more … Continue reading
Muslimgauze – Blinded Horses album review
On his fourth LP, Bryn Jones fully comes into his own as Muslimgauze while still containing some anomalies and retaining some atavistic traits of his earliest works. For those that … Continue reading
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