Category: Features
5Q5A – La Chinga
originally written by Kyle Harcott Waxin’ sticks with the greasiest riffs since ’76, Vancouver’s La Chinga roll it up tight and smoke it loose. Cosmic-birthing some of the rockinest psychedelic space jams, the Rain City …
80s Essentials – Volume Six
Welcome to part six of The Most Essential Albums of the Eighties. Previous volumes are available here. This week’s edition is another smorgasbord of metal styles, featuring classic doom, ground-breaking death metal, foundational Norwegian black …
The Last Rites’ Podcast – Featuring Mike Scalzi Of Slough Feg
Oh, we knew you missed the sound of writers talking about music. That plucked and flicked eyelash was totally for us. Screaming “POD RITES!” three times into the mirror? That too. How could we not …
Weird Sunday – Whispering Sunsets
Originally written by Ian Chainey Like so many people I’ve met at Whispering Sunsets, Ted Galligan is working on a masterpiece. “Time. Nothing. It’s, like, stripped down. Baroque, but not,” he playfully answers when I …
5Q5A – Sacrificial Blood
New Jersey’s death/thrash warriors, Sacrificial Blood, are skilled in the martial arts of the elders. It’s grown-people stuff. The trio’s fighting form is a little dustier, a little more Occam’s Razor than wiz-bang modern borkers …
80s Essentials – The Hair Metal Daze: Sleeze N’ Cheez
Hair metal: The most-mocked subset of 80s heaviness. Much of it barely qualifies as metal, occupying space more accurately described as hard rock, but its best records appropriate metallic riffage and attitude enough to warrant …
5Q5A – Mantar – Rawest Display of Power
Mantar. MANTAR. It evokes a VO shout from a B-flick trailer. HE COMES IN THE NIGHT. MANTAR. Wearing a congratulatory smirk, you slide over and hit up “Spit” on the ol’ Bandcamp. Out of nowhere, the German …