BARONESS w/ DEAFHEAVEN & ZEAL AND ARDOR @ SKYWAY THEATRE, MINNEAPOLIS MARC 29, 2019 Friday night in downtown Minneapolis is never short of options for an entertaining evening. Tonight, critical darling Jenny Lewis played at First Avenue, and [...]
Devin Townsend Empath Inside Out/Sony Music There can be no debating the musical genius of Canada’s own Devin Townsend. For his 18th studio studio album and arguably his first solo one, Townsend has already given fans a unique glimpse into the [...]
Good Tiger Redux Metal Blade Good Tiger’s 2018 sophomore effort We Will All Be Gone was one of the stronger efforts released last year and the band’s live performance met this reviewer’s every expectation for a tight show when he saw the band in [...]
RIVERS OF NIHIL w/ ENTHEOS, CONJURER & WOLF KING @ VAUDEVILLE MEWS, DES MOINES MARCH 7, 2019 Connoisseurs of the metal scene were nearly unanimous in their appreciation of Pennsylvania’s Rivers of Nihil’s latest release Where Owls Know My [...]
A MAN IN FULL A CONVERSATION WITH LES NUBY OF HOLIDAY GUNFIRE Les Nuby of Birmingham, Alabama-based Holiday Gunfire has been around the block a few times. He has played alongside Dave Grohl at CBGB’s, opened for R.E.M. at Hyde Park to a crowd [...]
Yola Walk Through Fire Easy Eye Records Country soul artist Yola’s personal story is inspirational. With more than her fair share of personal traumas and adversity, including growing up with a parent who banned her from making music, [...]
Holiday Gunfire Holiday Gunfire Cornelius Chapel Records Though Birmingham, Alabama isn’t the most likely birthplace for a perfect amalgam of 1990s sounds, that is exactly what these veterans of Verbena, Twinside, Great Lakes, and Nowhere [...]
HEALTH VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR Loma Vista Recordings Dante Alighieri imagined an entrance to hell reading “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here”. On VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR, HEALTH unremittingly grapples with lost hope and death. Lyrically, the [...]
Abigail Lapell Getaway Coax Records In following up the award-winning Canadian folk of 2017’s Hide Nor Hair, Abigail Lapell had her work cut out for her. Fans will no doubt be more than content with the quality of Getaway. Lapell’s voice sounds [...]
Mozes And The Firstborn Dadcore Burger Records On their third album, Dadcore, Dutch alt-rockers Mozes and the Firstborn diversify their sound even further than on 2016’s Great Pile of Nothing. Lead single “If I” is a perfectly produced [...]
