Battles
Now, that is what the fuck I’m talking about. From the first grungy, then vaguely pixelated, guitar chords of album-opener ”Trembling Hands,” Arizona, the second record proper by loop-rock ”band”…
In this fine, first edition of Welcome To Pittsburgh, a new, somewhat-irregular Popdose column dictating the independent musical pulse of the Rust Belt’s cultural capital, we find ourselves saddled with…
Ipecac Records devotees might be led, for good reason, to believe that the Kevin Rutmanis narrative had come to a close. Just don’t tell that to Rutmanis. Let’s catch up…
”Ampersand” showed such promise. But we can’t all be Ian Williams. Mylets, the one-man-band pseudonym of guitar-texturist Henry Kohen, aspires to attain the heights of Williams’ pedal-frenzied, signature-shifting genius with…
The only thing I experienced last night that was more intense than Tomahawk was the near-Biblical thunderstorm I drove through on the way home.
[youtube id=”pkgQ88G8Hj8″ width=”600″ height=”350″] ”My Machines” is available as a 12″ colored vinyl single via Warp Records; the printing is extremely limited due to the recent Sony DADC warehouse fire…
A-B-C! It’s easy as do-re-mi! Art Brut – Summer Job from Art Brut vs. Satan (2009) Bat for Lashes – Moon and Moon from Two Suns (2009) Battles – Atlas…