post-rock Archive
11 Dec 2018
John Lydon is … Happy? (Part One)
“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” With that question posed to an audience at San Francisco’s Winterland on January 14, 1978, visibly unhappy vocalist Johnny Rotten (neé Lydon) ended […]
01 Jun 2018
EP Review: Ghostdog — A Circle of Stones
Yearning, melancholy midtempo rock with a dreamy feel is merely one of the stocks-in-trade of Asheville-based Ghostdog. But it’s worth noting that the group playfully describes its music as “Wussy-boy […]
11 Aug 2017
New Music Review Roundup, Part 3
Today I wrap up three days’ worth of reviews of new music. Dig if you will. The Pollyseeds – Sounds of Crenshaw, Vol. 1 As far as I know, none […]
09 Aug 2017
New Music Review Roundup, Part 1
I’ve got lots of new music to tell you about. Eighteen albums in all, which I’ll cover over three days. Let’s get started. The Brigadier – Wash Away the Day […]
19 Jun 2017
Russian Circles: Making Music in a Post-rock World
In a valiant attempt to provide helpful points of reference for music listeners, journalists have concocted all manner of genre labels. Some – folk-rock, for example – are useful in […]
31 Oct 2016
Sigur Rós Proves That Music Really is the Universal Language
A brief written description of the music of Sigur Rós rarely does it justice. Variously described as post-rock, impressionistic, glacial and abstract, the music on the trio’s seven studio albums […]
22 Apr 2016
Five Quick Ones
About once a month I like to visit my “in for review” shelf and pull out some titles that I’ve been meaning to get to for some time. For whatever […]
14 Oct 2015
Album Mini-review: Public Image Ltd — What the World Needs Now…
File Next to: The Fall, Killing Joke, Gang of Four It’s been nearly forty years since Never Mind the Bollocks was released; try wrapping your mind around that fact. Back […]
23 Jul 2015
Hundred-word Reviews for July 2015, Part 3
Blues, r&b, post-jazz and country-flavored singer/songwriter music: never let it be said that I only write about rock. Here are five fine releases in a wide array of musical styles. […]
07 Apr 2015
Festival Review: Big Ears Festival 2015, Part 2
Continued from Part One… Next, it was drone time. The minimalist work of the duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen (joined by three additional musicians) was delivered in the […]