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In the news today: Roosevelt, U.S. Girls, Model/Actriz, Crumb, Palm, Outline Summer at Knockdown Center, Cruel World, Iggy Pops, Echo and the Bunnymen, Love and Rockets, Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl, Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Helloween, Swimming Paul, Maynard James Keenan, 100 gecs
Automatic Writing Machine. Review by Scott Adams.
Sound Salvation is resurrected with a howlingly good Halloween playlist that will weak the dead at your All Hallow’s Eve bash.
Tanya Donelly and the Parkington Sisters (American Laundromat). Review by May Terry.
Fracture. Repair. Repeat. (Metropolis). Review by Carl F Gauze.
The Hunting Room (Manufacture). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Trouble Will Find Me (4AD). Review by Jen Cray.
Merchandise makes Gainesville, and Matthew Moyer, swoon like teenagers at an early ’90s Morrissey concert… and that’s a very, very good thing.
There’s more to Orlando than Disney World, like great four-day music festivals headlined by great bands. Jen Cray caught Cults and Spectrals as part of the Orange You Glad Music Festival at The Plaza Live Theatre.
Skying (XL). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Betrayal of Hearts (Sovereign States). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Zonoscope (Modular Recordings). Review by Jen Cray.
Lit from Within (Parliament of Trees). Review by Tim Wardyn.
The Fountain (Ocean Rain). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Because Because Because (Pound You Into the Ground Records). Review by Robert Sutton.
The Thermals are keeping the vitality of mid ’90s-styled indie rock alive and well.
Islands (Labrador Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Too young to be fully cognizant of the more embarrassing excesses of Gothic music over the past twenty years, the young Turks of NYC’s own Blacklist are, perhaps unwittingly, the best hope of redeeming Goth-metal. Fresh from a European tour complete with horned hotel antics, Blacklist frontman and provocateur Josh Strawn told Ink 19 all about how he learned to stop worrying and love Motorhead and Scott Walker equally.
Priceless Concrete Echoes (Citizen). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Enemy Mine (Jagjaguwar). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Today’s Smmoth Jazz Roundup is a collection of short reviews of easy-to-listen-to jazz.
In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album (Jazz Detective). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (Elemental Music). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
40 years on, Michael Gira and Swans continue to bring a ritualistic experience that needs to be heard in order to be believed. Featured photo by Reese Cann.
The biggest astronomical event of the decade coincides with a long overdue trip to Austin, Texas.
Sofia and Louise have just graduated nursing school. They have no idea what they’ve signed up for.
At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976/1977 (Jazz Detective). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert in Avignon (Elemental Music). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Hamilton, Ontario rap artist Cadence Weapon drops Rollercoaster (MNRK Music) today.
Shall I compare thee to an “Old Bronco”? Sure, if thou art The Bacon Brothers.