Album Review – Iceage, New Brigade
New Brigade starts with a 47 second noise intro and then the first song “White Rune” erupts with a marching bass drum and snare hits while reverberated and short-delayed guitars stutter away, giving rise to thundering tom hits. Fifty more seconds and out of the no-wave sludge a clean punk riff emerges, all the while … Read more
Track Review — Wavves “King of the Beach”
“King of the Beach,” Wavves. On January 13, 2010 Jay Reatard was found dead in his Memphis home from a cocaine and alcohol overdose. By August, lead singer Nathan Williams and his backing band — which includes both the drummer and bassist from Reatard’s former band — released Wavves’ second album King of the Beach. … Read more
