The kids are coming up from behind.
North Carolina’s Wednesday revived Indie rock of the 90s (power pop, grunge, shoegaze, slacker rock, country rock), sounding sort of like all of the above. Singer, Karly Hartzman falls somewhere in between Liz Phair and Alannis Morrisette. Bleeds is their most varied and dynamic album yet. Note the mix of scorching guitar riffs, tuneless singing … Read more
In an era of ‘noise rock’ and ‘dark-punk’, New York’s Geese were a breath a fresh air. 2023’s 3D Country presented a band both drowning in their influences (particularly the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin) but with the capacity to perform their imitations with a ‘new wave’ vivacity, with new ideas and a new presentation, … Read more
The latest project from the legendary experimental rock project Swans, Birthing, is almost 2 hours of material, stretched over seven tracks of varying lengths between 7 and 23 minutes. Gira and longtime collaborators Phil Puleo, Kristof Hahn, and Dana Schechter, Christopher Pravdica, Larry Mullins, and Norman Westberg (much the same lineup as on The … Read more