Category: Rock

Wand is preparing to release their new album “Vertigo” (Drag City). The release date is set for July 26th, and before that, a new single will be available. “JJ” is a tender rock song with quite a few psychedelic moments. The animated video by Vernon Chatman & lilfuchs is definitely…

Summers in Miami can be exhausting. Hot and humid, then suddenly it feels like the world is ending. Ale Campos and Emile Milgrim, as Las Nubes, can sing songs about this on “Tormentas Malsanas” (Sweat / Spinda / Godless America). “Unhealthy Storms” is the English translation of the album title,…

Gnod have earned a reputation as a challenging band. Recently, the Brits have been delivering loud, sludgy works, always quite unruly, though their sound has continually evolved organically. With “Spot Land” (Rocket Recordings), they have returned to a place they once were. Gnod presents a highly meditative, yet intensely agitated…

The lineup of the Mountain Movers has now solidified. For over a decade, Dan Greene, Rick Omonte, Kryssi Battalene, and Ross Menze have been playing together. Four albums have been released since then, and now their fifth, “Walking After Dark” (Trouble In Mind), is out. The album brings together different…

Naturally, it’s difficult to keep one’s composure while listening to Shellac’s new album “To All Trains” (Touch and Go). The death of bandleader Steve Albini is still too recent, the tears barely dry. Nevertheless, let’s focus on the facts. “To All Trains” is Shellac’s sixth album. A band that is…

Wand is constantly in motion, rising again as a quartet. From over 50 hours of improvisation, the Californian band has crafted a new album. “Vertigo” (Drag City) is set to be released on July 26th. Ideas were tossed back and forth, songs rewritten repeatedly. A multifaceted album is promised, and…

One of those Sixties garage punk bands, that’s never what The Ar-Kaics aimed to be. Their 2018 release “In This Time” for Wick was more than just primitive pounding. Even then, the Virginia-based band presented heartfelt rock songs alongside the usual genre-typical bangers. Their new album now focuses more on…

It’s nothing terribly new that chaos reigns in the world of Fat White Family. And so, the recording process for their fourth album, “Forgiveness Is Yours” (Domino), was rather chaotic as well. Lias Saoudi and his counterpart Saul Adamczewski probably had their final falling out, and even the Saoudi brothers…