Daily Yinz – 1980 Special Twin – Saint Gervais sur Mere – 2 – Ghost Knife

1980 Special Twin is experimental violinist Joey Molinaro's industrial techno side project. When Joey Molinaro isn't performing furious violin metal or crusty outlaw folk, he's composing blackened dance tracks. Sextuple Album--which contains six years' worth of strings, midi signals, and samples--pulses and grates like machinery. Fitting, because many of the sounds are ripped from actual … Continue reading Daily Yinz – 1980 Special Twin – Saint Gervais sur Mere – 2 – Ghost Knife →

Daily Yinz – Oli Alexander – 10 A.M. (Ft. Essential Machine)

The folk rocker's Wannabe EP is a two-track collaboration with Essential Machine. "10 A.M.", a rework of a demo from a previous EP, shakes itself awake from a blurry haze and trots off down a dusty, desolate trail; spritely synths flit like the birds that "peck and feed" in the merciless sun, and warped, psychedelic … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Oli Alexander – 10 A.M. (Ft. Essential Machine) →

Weekly Wrap-Up 01.10.25

A few words about a few more local tracks that hit the spot this week ### The Ladybug Transistor - Meadowport Arch (4-Track Demo) Pulled from the 25th anniversary edition of the group's 1999 album, The Albemarle Sound, this demo finds the original track's flower power carnival jaunt stripped down to intimate piano and vocal. … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 01.10.25 →

Daily Yinz – Farade – Uzamaki

The emcee's latest release is the icy cold Crash Course. Junji Ito's manga opus Uzumaki focuses on a supernatural evil that manifests in ever-present spiral shapes. Characters see spirals in the sky, in the landscape, and in each other. Some even find their bodies twisting into grotesque versions of the shape. Farade's track of the … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Farade – Uzamaki →

Daily Yinz – Watererer – Famous Everywhere

The prolific experimentalists' latest EP is Hologram House. The music that comes from David Bernabo's Ongoing Box label engages and surprises. You especially never know what you're going to get from Watererer--one of the bands featured heavily at Ongoing Box--which comprises multi-instrumentalists Bernabo, Matt Aelmore, and PJ Roduta, along with whoever else happens to stop … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Watererer – Famous Everywhere →

Daily Yinz – The Sewerheads – Your Old Bedroom

The quartet's darkly theatrical debut LP is Despair is a Heaven (Tall Texan) Despair is a Heaven's ten tracks saunter, whirl, and gallop like dancers in a skeletal parade of the damned; violinist Shani Banerjee and guitarist Eli Kasan lead the procession in cursed duet. The moody "Your Old Bedroom" begins with a wall of … Continue reading Daily Yinz – The Sewerheads – Your Old Bedroom →

Daily Yinz – Speed Plans – Everybody Gotta Die

Hardcore punks' latest release is a 7" called DUI (Convulse Records). 45-second opener "Everybody Gotta Die" finds vocalist Matt Maitland barking the titular phrase over a breakneck instrumental. It's the perfect response to many news stories. Take the one about Bryan Johnson, the useless tech multimillionaire who claims he's optimizing himself toward immortality, but is … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Speed Plans – Everybody Gotta Die →

Multi-Weekly Wrap-Up 01.03.25

A few words about a few more local tracks that hit the spot over the past few weeks ### Bloomfield Pest Control - Two Birds (Getting Stoned With) Punk rock that's as grungy and heavy as a giant rat waddling its way around the mud of Skunk Hollow. More from Bloomfield Pest Control Follow on … Continue reading Multi-Weekly Wrap-Up 01.03.25 →

Daily Yinz – Heading North – Expired Kohl’s Cash

One half of the pop-punk quintet's new double single. Until I listened to "Expired Kohl's Cash," I'd forgotten that Kohl's existed. I must have been to a Kohl's at some point in my life--maybe I even have some expired Kohl's Cash lying around somewhere--but its similarity to Target and Kmart and T.J. Maxx banished it … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Heading North – Expired Kohl’s Cash →