Record Review: Wavves – Afraid of Heights
San Diego’s Nathan Williams began his work as Wavves in his parent’s house. Just another teenager with a guitar and a four-track recorder, but managed to create a couple of the noisiest and catchiest...
View ArticleAdopt This Album! Sonny Sharrock – Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Let’s talk about guitar heroes for a second. Depending on your age and interests, you probably have a different idea of what that means. If you’re a baby boomer, maybe you think Jimmy Page is it. If...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Tinariwen – Emmaar
Let’s talk about blues music for a second. Everyone knows what it is, knows the history of it. Poor black musicians from the south, Robert Johnson and the devil, Led Zeppelin refusing to credit Blind...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Noveller – Fantastic Planet
Back in the day, I used to listen to a record called No Pussyfooting all the time; it was basically just Robert Fripp’s looped guitar over looped guitar over looped guitar with some electronic...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel – The Rarity of Experience
I’ve been thinking a lot about guitar rock lately; I’ve written here before that the only guitar records to really excite me in the last while were St Vincent’s self-titled, Noveller’s Fantastic...
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