The staggering amount of instrumental post-rock that’s been covering my desk in promo sleeves has only grown recently. Apparently, someone told a whole bunch of metal dudes that it’s okay to write songs without having anyone sing over them. If they really feel like going lieder-free, they should be taking…

NEW YORK, NY—Dude, this show rocked.

Yeah, not the most eloquent way of describing Goblin Cock’s swing through New York City, but fancy words don’t fit a band like Goblin Cock—not their music, not their attitude. Certainly not their name.

The project of Rob Crow (Pinback, Optiganally Yours, RRC III,…

With a picture of a muscled and blood-spattered goblin on its cover, Goblin Cock’s sophomore album exudes tongue-in-cheek homoerotic imagery. The brainchild of Rob Crow, a musical mastermind who morphs between genres with the frequency most people change shirts, Come With Me If You Want To Live! is possibly the…

With a quirky consonance in the vein of Cake, the latest effort from Rob Crow (Pinback, Optaganally Yours, a hundred other bands you’ve never heard of) has the kind of unassuming charm you’d expect from a half-asleep guy drinking coffee in his front yard with an Aleister Crowley t-shirt on.…