Trying to Ride Out the Storm
We cannot wait until the day comes when we can write about something without having to acknowledge the context of the pandemic’s unprecedented effects...
A Most Efficient EP
Although it’s a certainty that some brownline-framed-glasses-sporting internet-bullying parvenu — armed with an underground music XP dwarfing that of the average mortal local music...
Shows of the Year
There’s no telling what the answer might have been when posed to the public writ large (getting pedicures?), but to us as insular, daylight-fearing...
Records of the Year
It goes without saying that, so far, the “roaring” in this century’s version of the Roaring ’20s seems to be in reference to the...
Trauma Ray of Hope
I think it was in June or July when Trauma Ray frontman Uriel Avila and his girlfriend dropped by the Boiled Owl Tavern for...
Ryan Hamilton’s 1221
A year and a half ago, Ryan Hamilton — along with his backing band, the U.K.-based Harlequin Ghosts — had achieved a newfound level...
Powering Central Arts
About a month ago, I had this conversation with a longtime Area Band Dude about the state of live music in a post-pandemic Fort...
April Bond’s Invocation of the Divine
Many of the world’s religions are built around the concept of opposing forces. Whether bound in perpetual struggle between each other or held together...
Rivercrest Yacht Club Raises Anchor
The moniker “party band” and which groups it’s applied to often carries an undue negative connotation. Somehow, not being “serious” can translate into not...
Who’s Your Uncle Toasty?
Mean Motor Scooter drummer Jeffery Chase Friedman is fronting a new band. It’s called Uncle Toasty, and, at least for its debut show at...
