Score: 4/10 . Well, it seems like the Meat Puppets are finally just “puppets” now and everybody seems to like them for that: they’re easy today to pigeonhole into these pathetic country saps, with no anger, no creative direction, no psychedelia, no much of anything but this impossibly tired and bored “Americana” which could have […]

Score: 8/10 . No, I’m not like a FANATIC of this album, and no, I’m not even really a fanatic of Weezer in general (I hated the Teal Album, as I hope all self-respecting people do), but hear me out here: this Black Album is some undeniably listenable stuff, and what’s more, Rivers Cuomo is […]

Score: 8.5/10 . How much does Supergrass’ Gaz Coombes love rock and roll in the late 20-teens? Well, enough to nudge out this four-song live EP. I think we’ve just found that out. Well, just look at what he’s saying to The Guardian in 2015: “Britpop was overblown — there were only a few decent […]

Score: 8.5/10 . Van Duren is a good band (apparently still together per the account on Bandcamp) and perhaps more than any other band in history, they’re good because they just get up and play and don’t let anything get in the way of the already established rock and roll forces around them. These forces […]

Score: 8/10 . It seems like 2019 has been the blockbuster year of the rock so far (as would surely be evidenced by Sharon Van Etten’s new garb and look), so I was more than pleased to intake this new Toro y Moi effort, the work a beats producer out of Oakland. Well, get this […]

Score: 7.5/10 . Well, I have to admit, for how much this band sometimes pi**es me off, they do make a strong impression and typically occupy a fairly substantial mine field in my music-related psyche. To wit: they’ve been successfully weirding me out basically at will since I was in high school and Thirteen Tales […]

Score: 2/10 . Pedro the Lion has a song about getting your first bike when you’re six years old. And you know what? They sound like it. They sound like a band that would sing about getting your first bike when you’re six years old. So boring it should come with a government stipend rewarding […]

Score: 9.5/10 . Veteran New York folk-rocker Steve Gunn is back this year with a very un-hyped, unpretentious and full-bodied LP and… well, we’re all just licking our chops! That’s about it! Overall, there’s very little to complain about with this nine-song, vinyl-length collection, which outplays therein as not only a brilliant and opaque swatch […]

 Score: 10/10 .  “Here lies a genius. Keep the fu**Ing noise down” – Noel Gallagher  “Gimme the mic bit** / I wanna be Sheezus” – Lily Allen .. I have a funny story. It was my junior year in high school and I made the decision to become a Christian. I would have […]

Score: 6/10 .  * A black hole is defined by Wikipedia as “a region of spacetime exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing–not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light–can escape from inside it.” It is the theory of some scientists that we could one day enter one, given Earth’s travel through space, […]