by Nic Renshaw | Feb 26, 2018 | Features, Reviews
The Dwarves have always trafficked in all things tasteless, violent and scatological, their public personas somewhere between the rampaging psychopathy of GG Allin and the more performative shock-rock antics of Alice Cooper. But underneath all the album-cover nudity...
by Nic Renshaw | Feb 19, 2018 | Features
The musical landscape at the beginning of 1993 was as diverse as it was chaotic- the grunge craze was reaching its peak and longtime underground mainstays like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and R.E.M. suddenly found themselves exploding in popularity. Hip-hop was finally...
by Nic Renshaw | Feb 5, 2018 | Features, Reviews
On his third solo album, Jeff Rosenstock lets you know right off the bat what sort of place he’s in mentally. POST- opens with Rosenstock singing, “Dumbfounded, downtrodden and dejected/Crestfallen, grief-stricken and exhausted.” The majority of this album was written...
by Nic Renshaw | Feb 5, 2018 | Features, Reviews
They Might Be Giants have been around for a long time now. Since the group’s inception in 1982, John Flansburgh and John Linnell have carved out a niche for themselves as the kings of “geek rock” and their output in the late 80s and early 90s remains the...
by Nic Renshaw | Feb 2, 2018 | Features, Reviews
If We Have the Cracks feels like a throwback, that’s because it is. This album may have been released in 2018, but it was written and recorded in its entirety in the early-to-mid-‘90s. It compiles the full recorded works of little-known Chicago indie band Wendyfix,...
