Browsing: post-punk
Crooked Ghost “Sleepwalker” Skeleton House One of my favorite bands, Crooked Ghost, has a new video out, and man, it’s a killer. Coming from Asheville, NC,…
TRITA “Intend” The Good Night What a great heavy metal trio TRITA is. They’ve got it all: great vocals (which all three share), great riffs, this…
Polyplastic “Next Slide” Not No Post punk meets Bryan Ferry, with a hint of Julian Cope, and produces beautiful music. This is the best way to…
Tennis System “Clearer” P A I N Post punk with real snotty attitude, not fake, that’s what I crave. And Tennis System satisfies that crave. This…
Gang Of Four “Lucky” Complicit Coming barreling out of Leeds, Gang Of Four is back to take back their place as one of the best post…
The Breeders “Nervous Mary” All Nerve The new Breeders album is due to drop in early March, and I can’t wait. “Nervous Mary” is such a…
VLMV “If Only I” Stranded, Not Lost VLMV has this beautiful sound, like a light in the fog, beckoning you to a safe haven away from…
Russian Baths “What’s Your Basement” Penance I’m a sucker for a great noise band, and Russian Baths are a great noise band. Comprised of Luke Koz (guitar,…
Typhoon “Darker” Offerings Coming out like a storm from Portland, Typhoon makes great music. Consisting of kyle, toby, dave, pieter, alex, tyler, devin, shannon, this is…
The Decrees “Sons of Rage” Coming from Scotland, The Decrees have all the great alternative post-punk sound that made bands like Big Country and other Scottish…
Baroque Monody “Pickford” Aphrodite Laughs This is an amazing album. Baroque Monody has written and performed a great group of tunes about women, a lot not…
Laibach “Das Nachtlied I” Also Sprach Zarathustra Only Laibach would write a whole album based on Nietzche’s Also Sprach Zarathustra. It makes sense though: no writer has…
Liars “Cred Woes” TFCF If there is a band that need not fear about the “cred”, it’s Liars. These guys are one of the greatest No…
The Feelies wrapped up a weekend at Rough Trade NYC with a final performance as bustling and determined as though it was their first. In a…
CO/NTRY “Cash Out” Cell Phone 1 CO/NTRY is an adult-contemporary post-punk duo comprised of Newfoundland-born/Montreal-based artists Beaver Sheppard and David Whitten. They changed their name from Country…
Dion Lunadon “Fire” Dion Lunadon What do you get when, in a psychedelic haze, The 13th Floor Elevator, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Julian Cope,…
The XX – I See You The third album by the enigmatic trio’s third album may possibly be there best yet as it incorporates their individual talents…
Spiral Stairs “Dance (Call Wolf) Doris And The Daggers I always loved Pavement so much. And Scott Kannberg has always been one of my favorite songwriters.…
Imaginary People “Fresh Kill” October Alice I love this band. They are such an enigma; who is October Alice, what fresh kill, are they really people?…
Gothic Tropic “How Life Works” Gothic Tropic consists of Cecilia Della Peruti, Rhys Hastings, and Brad Bowers, with help from Connor Sullivan and Adam Laidlaw, but Gothic Tropic is the brainchild…