Throughout the course of their first full-length, Brooklyn psych-heads Traveling Circle run a course from fuzzy rock traditionalism to soulful, chic vocalizing and leave no shortage of room to dedicate to weirding-out in classic space rock style. Guitarist Dylan Maiden takes on a sultry Curtis Mayfield style, and somehow…

Classic angry hardcore. Fisherking, who take their name from the 1991 film directed by Terry Gilliam—look it up, kids—specialize in swift punishment. Their punk roots are readily on display and rather than succumb to the melody and emo tropes of hardcore today, they take the blasting ‘80s SoCal approach…

This is the box fans have been salivating over in anticipation. We knew it was there. We just didn’t know when it would ever come out. The turning point came when Jimi’s sister, Janie, took control of the hundreds of hours of master recordings that will continue to provide…

“La crème de la crème” is a French phrase that translates to “the cream of the cream.” Though The Mommyheads might be American indie, they seem to understand the phrase well.

Adam Elk, singer and founder of The Mommyheads, unlike most vocalists, works through a range not of pitch but…

The guitars shimmer and sparkle, the bass thrives and flourishes, this is an edenic release. Such organic music is hard to come by, it certainly doesn’t grow up out of the ground. Music like this must come from somewhere and if Envy know that secret they’re certainly not sharing…

To decimate one’s foes implies that one in ten of them die. Certainly not bad odds for a fledging conqueror, but OverKill are better than that. One in 10? Try utter annihilation. 10 in 10 fans of metal will be absolutely demolished by this. Or not…?

This album is…

The vivacious and prolific Jon Mack helms Auradrone. Jon is a she for those of you that are used to the other Jon on this coast. Whitelite Britelite is Mack’s debut and she wastes no time curve-balling some interesting choruses right out of the gate with “Auto Erotic.” Techno…

Bruce Springsteen was something of a slave driver during the recording of 1978’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town. The follow-up to his Born To Run “superstar album” would be three years in the making, three of the most painful years in his career due to a lawsuit with…

From the shimmering first strains of Audio Insight’s debut EP, Dimensions, it’s clear that this is a promising band with a great future, and a pretty respectable present.

The prog-heads among us will love the two-part title track that first appears after the intro track and dramatically concludes as…

This certainly isn’t an album that you would want to listen to by yourself at night, in a dark room, while playing Resident Evil 2. I might go so far as to say this is way scarier than any Resident Evil game. This is an album that has the rare…