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A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week (a day early, since I will be wandering around Chicago tomorrow) ### The Chad Sipes Stereo - Thoughts and Prayers Veteran rock quartet's new album examines a country sick with all sorts of maladies that are medicated with all sorts of … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 05.12.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Tough Cuffs - It Got Colder Title track from noise punks' new release is a perfect representation of the album itself: grander, more spacious, and (somehow) even more furious than last year's Wasted Pleasure. Droning guitars creep and roar, bass … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 05.06.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Sommelier - Alt Weakly A sinister waltz that sounds like Muse performing a Danny Elfman-penned Off-Broadway musical centering on a struggling lounge singer hellbent on vengeance against those who have overlooked him. More from Sommelier Follow on Instagram and Facebook … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 04.29.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Sinia - Missed Exit Minimalist, free-floating heartache jam that deconstructs R&B's composite parts and scatters them loosely around a skeletal rhythmic framework. A rumble of bass here, a synth droplet or triangle ping there, serve as landmarks for Sinia to … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 04.22.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Pacing - Sunny ❤ Social media has made it possible for us to compare ourselves to an endless torrent of other people and come up short every time. Log on to Instagram, and accounts called "investingexecutives" and "businessmastership" blare unsolicited … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 04.15.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Nate Cross - Push It! Fuzzy, swaggering garage rock whose dissonant guitars buzz and shriek like a swarm of zombie hornets and whose stomping drums could be the lumbering footfalls of a Frankenstein creature. Morphs into a dance-floor stomper right … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 04.01.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Ames Harding - The Poet's Tango What do you get when you cross a group of ten musicians with an abandoned Wilkinsburg church? An eclectic, understated, slightly spooky album that pulls from jazz, folk, indie, and throwback pop styles equally, … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 03.25.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week. ### Bloomfield Pest Control - FTF Newly minted trio delivers a demo that brings to mind Misfits's gleefully scuzzy ghoul-punk. It's got poppy power chords, hammering drums, and vocals whose belching theatricality suggest that they're soon to be followed by a … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 03.18.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### heart together - small hurts Ah, youthful emotion, forever teetering on a crumbling wall between exultation and despair. Mirrored here by guitar riffs that build from tremulous to noisy and by lyrics--delivered in a monotone, then a ragged yelp--that conjure … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 03.11.22
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Saani Mac - Everyone is Everything Punk-rap firebrand continues his foray into the grimy dance underworld. A ping-ponging synth line snakes its way around a pulsing rhythm, evoking the experience of a locked-in, caffeine-assisted arcade game session. More from Saani … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 03.04.22
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