Category Archives: Album Reviews

There are those days when all you feel like doing is sitting in a grassy field and watching the clouds travel across the sky. They’re the days where you wish you can disappear from your schedule for a while, simply … Continue reading →

The 5th cassette release from Chicago-based Already Dead Tapes is Foohgawz “Chapter 7,” an experimental electronic recording that ventures all over the map in one continuous feed of audio. Starting out the gate with an eerie wind tunnel of a … Continue reading →

Windmills, the second release from Kalamazoo’s The Almanac Shouters, displays that the trio firmly have their brand of folkpunk down.  The guitar/banjo/upright bass line-up can blaze when necessary, but more often, they are rooted in a slower Americana sound that … Continue reading →

What are we to do with noise-rock? I suppose ‘listen to it with an open mind’ is one option. Or you can write off the entire genre altogether. Hey, it’s your call! Okay, maybe we all do it. Everyone is … Continue reading →

  The level of catharsis and convalescence in Fiona Dickinson’s music is astonishing.  You can feel her voice pushing back the demons as she digs deep into a growl, and then angelically welcome in the healing process with the voice … Continue reading →

The third release from Kalamazoo/Chicago-based label Already Dead Tapes is ‘Seconds’ from Problems That Fix Themselves, the focus of former Kalamazoo resident and Rotten Wood Moon member Joshua Tabbia, who recently migrated to Chicago. “Seconds” finds Tabbia (with a little … Continue reading →

Kalamazoo math rock duo Good News performed a while back at the No Fun where I happened to pick up their self-titled EP. They look like this: Good News is a very talented duo, with Ryan Pate on Drums and … Continue reading →

“I know not what they mean – tears from the depth of some divine despair – rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes – in looking on, and thinking of the days that are no more” This slightly … Continue reading →