Revisiting Melvins’ Mid-1990s Makes Claim for Their Sheer Excellence
At the Stake: Complete Atlantic Recordings 1993-1996 gathers the three album run Melvins delivered during their short stint on a major label.
Nick Soulsby
Nick Soulsby is a fairly everyday bloke who hopes to stay that way while never turning the things he loves into things he must do to earn a daily crust. Nick's is the author of five books. Three of his books are focused on the band Nirvana — Dark Slivers (Running Water Press, 2012), I Found My Friends, (St Martin's Press, 2015) and Cobain on Cobain (Omnibus Press, 2016). This was followed by We Sing a New Language: the Oral Discography of Thurston Moore, (Omnibus Press, 2017). His most recent book is SWANS: Sacrifice And Transcendence — The Oral History(Jawbone Press, 2018). In 2014 Nick collaborated with Soul Jazz Records to curate No Seattle: Forgotten Sounds of the North West Grunge Era 1986-97, a release of little known and never before seen bands from the State of Washington's heyday. He also wrote the liner notes to the reissue of The Fire Ants sole 1993 EP release Stripped.
Public Image Ltd Skirt Between Success and Failure on ‘End of World’
Public Image Ltd’s End of World, their first in eight years, marks some of John Lydon’s best work in decades and a half that should have never left band practice.
Rancid Set Sail for Glory on ‘Tomorrow Never Comes’
A rollicking experience from start to finish, Tomorrow Never Comes shows once again why punk rockers Rancid are so fondly regarded. Here’s to them!
No Sex Please, We’re British: Coil’s Subversively Overt Homosexuality
Homosexuality drove experimental band Coil’s creativity, yet they rejected the demand that they either embrace performative homosexuality or remain discreet and closeted.
Loyalty Song: Peter Doherty Gives His Audience All His Love
In a Bristol performance, the Libertine’s Peter Doherty gives an impressive reminder that he’s someone whose song craft and sheer talent deserve appreciation.
Joe Meek and the Blue Men See the Future on Essential Outtake Compilation
Joe Meek and the Blue Men’s I Hear a New World Sessions delves into Meek’s famed archive and delivers on the promise of an “Alternative Outer Space Fantasy”.
We Are Urusei Yatsura: The Oral History
Scottish indie rockers Urusei Yatsura describe their rise from local heroes to John Peel favorites and a debut album setting their ramshackle and delightful vision in sound.
Liturgy’s ‘93696’ Delivers Ecstasy, Physicality, and Intellectual Endeavor
Already noted for their determination to challenge themselves and their listeners, Liturgy’s 93696 shows them refusing to settle for less when more is possible.
Filling Hearts With Diamonds: An Interview with Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix of Liturgy
Exemplified by the new album 93696, Liturgy have moved ever further out into space all their own, tethered only by a slender cable to their sonic point of origin.
‘The Batman’ Is Just Another Incel Fantasy of Entitlement
Matt Reeves’ meandering faux-profound take on Batman spends its over-long runtime telling women to shut up and do as they’re told or face the consequences.
Boy Harsher’s ‘The Runner’ Is Compelling as Both Film and Soundtrack
Boy Harsher chose to fill dark times by creating a film and soundtrack. The Runner, a sharp 30-minute horror, unfurls tantalizingly ambiguous events at a stately place.
Burial Has Carved Out an Inimitable New Space with ‘Antidawn’
Burial continues an almost unfeasibly long hot streak of evocative and compelling sonic visions with Antidawn. It feels like an entirely new genre of field recording and is his most abstract electronica to date.