By - Jackie Lo   If you like: Mannequin Pussy, Pixies, Fugazi, Metz, Nirvana It’s been six years since we’ve gotten a new album from Gouge Away. With demos tracked and a pandemic that halted touring, the members headed in different parts of the country and any forward progress on new music was put on hold. But, last year, Gouge Away got back together and finished writing new material, developed […]

By - Kristi Houk Recommended if You Like: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Kills, The Black Angels The Dandy’s are back and Courtney Taylor-Taylor, lead vocalist for Portland’s party band, is paranoid. About a lot of things but mainly life as we know it and our complacency with it all.   Pretty sure this is why his band The Dandy Warhols have made one of the hardest hitting records I’ve heard […]

By - Kristi Houk Recommended if you Like: 700 Bliss, Kae Tempest, Elucid, Billy Woods, Late Miles Davis This is not easy listening, It will make you uncomfortable particularly if you are white. It is past time that we ( as white people) feel discomfort. It is time to shut up and listen. All good art should make the viewer/listener squirm.  Philadelphia based songwriter and poet, Camae Ayewa known by […]

By - Kristi Houk Recommended if you like Thin Lizzy, Mannequin Pussy, Hop Along It’s a new era for Philly based rock band, Sheer Mag. The band recently signed to Third Man Records (started by Jack White in Nashville) and have released Playing Favorites a killer album of 70’s rock mixed with theatrics and funk. On title track, “Playing Favorites” it’s clear that the band fronted by bombshell, punk icon, […]

By - Jackie Lo If you like: Idles, Health, Metz, Mudhoney, Jesus Lizard Pissed Jeans released their 6th album Half Divorced today on Sub Pop. Singer Matt Korvette said, “Half-Divorced has an aggression within it, in terms of saying, I don’t want this reality. There’s a power in being able to say, I realize you want me to pay attention to these things, but I’m telling you that they don’t […]

By - Jackie Lo If you like: Screaming Females, Hotline TNT, slutever, Bully, Ovlov Look. Listen. I live in Alabama and it hasn’t been a great few weeks for those of us that have to worry about reproductive issues. Let’s be honest, we’ve been pissed off and pissed on (nonconsensually) for a long time and this is just another devastating blow. I always think it can’t get worse or weirder…yet […]

By - Kristi Houk Recommended if you like: Wild Flag, Kristin Harsh, Margaret Glassy, Liz Phair “You really can’t love without letting go…”  -Mary Timony Ain’t it the truth? There are many of these “truths” circling Timony’s latest release, Untame the Tiger, her first solo album in 15 years.  Not that she hasn’t been making kick ass music since then - she definitely has - see Wild Flag, Ex Hex, […]

In today’s scene, where the echoes of DIY ethos clash with the glossy facade of mainstream appeal, Glitterer is back once again, working through it all with their latest LP: "Rationale."  In a way, even though this album is not Glitterer's first record it is THIS bands first.  What started of as a solo side project of Ned Russin has now been fully realized and and this new fuller version […]

By - Jackie Lo If you like: Stereolab, Air, French Pop, electropop, conservation and environmentalism I admit I have a soft spot for French music. Well, a lot of things that are French actually. The language, the food, the film, the fashion, and the architecture and design.  Late summer of 2020, during the height of the covid-induced shut down, I even did an entire show dedicated to my favorite French […]