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Wolvserpent Celebrate Signing to Relapse by Giving Away Their Demo
It’s good to celebrate the milestones in life, and to honor their announced signing to Relapse Records today, Idaho duo Wolvserpent have made their Perigaea demo available as a free download. Back in...
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Uzala Announce November Tour Dates
Boise ethereal doom trio Uzala will hit the road for two weeks starting Nov. 1. The impetus behind the trip in support of last year’s way-better-than-the-amount-of-coverage-I’ve-given-it Tales of...
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Steve Von Till: New Solo Album Recorded, Mixed and Mastered
Last night on Thee Facebooks, producer Randall Dunn (Master Musicians of Bukkake) confirmed that he’d heard the mastered version of a new solo album by Neurosis guitarist/vocalist Steve Von Till. No...
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Steve Von Till Announces A Life unto Itself Album Release
Been a quick seven years since Neurosis guitarist/vocalist Steve Von Till released his last solo album, A Grave is a Grim Horse. Or maybe it’s been a long seven years. I don’t know. It’s been seven...
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Sun Blood Stories to Release Twilight Midnight Morning on June 23
I gotta be honest with you. I don’t know much about Sun Blood Stories other than they’re from Boise, Idaho, and the upcoming Twilight Midnight Morning is their third album, but god damn, the vibe is...
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Steve Von Till Announces Solo European Tour
Steve Von Till, best known as guitarist/vocalist in Neurosis, has announced a European run that will start June 29 in support of his new album, A Life unto Itself (review forthcoming), which is out now...
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Sun Blood Stories, Twilight Midnight Morning: All Hours (Plus Album Stream)
[Please note: Press play above to hear the full stream of Sun Blood Stories’ Twilight Midnight Morning, which is out June 23. Thank you to the band for allowing me to host the stream, and I hope you...
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Sun Blood Stories Release Live from the Banana Stand
Okay, so this one’s been out for a couple weeks. I’ll admit I stumbled on it yesterday while I was revisiting — yet again — the Bandcamp page of Idaho’s Sun Blood Stories to take another listen to...
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Quarterly Review: Steve Von Till, Devil Worhsipper, Dr. Crazy, Linie, The...
Truth be told, I’ve been looking forward to this Quarterly Review since the last one ended. Not necessarily since it clears the deck on reviews to be done — it doesn’t — but just because I feel like...
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The Obelisk Radio Adds: Sun Blood Stories, Skraeckoedlan, Mount Desert, Zaum...
You already know, but it’s November as of yesterday. Last time I did a round of adds to The Obelisk Radio was June 5. Granted we’ve had two Quarterly Reviews since then, so not everything has fallen...
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The Western Mystics Release Once upon a Time in the Cosmos Live Album
Since I was about 10 years old, I’ve always been a sucker for a good bootleg. Boise, Idaho, newcomer three-piece The Western Mystics recently recorded their set at Neurolux on Nov. 11 — Spirit Caravan...
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Uzala, Live at Roadburn MMXV: Off to the Gallows
If you turn the volume way up at the end of “Seven Veils,” after Uzala guitarist Chad Remains announces they’re going to play a new song, you can hear some dork in the crowd ask, “What’s it called?”...
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Sun Blood Stories Premiere “Misery is Nebulous” Video
There’s not much by way of easy viewing in the new Sun Blood Stories video. Even the included footage of peaceful suburbia, 8mm home movies and other things that aren’t war, riots, Sandra Bland,...
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Tomorrow’s Dream: 135+ of 2016’s Most Anticipated Releases
If 135-plus releases sounds like a lot, you’re right, it is. I must be out of my god damn mind. To put it to scale though, last year, I did a feature every couple of months called the Quarterly Review...
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Sun Blood Stories Post “Witch Wind” Video
Nope, it hasn’t been all that long since the last Sun Blood Stories video — only about a month — but whatever. They keep making ’em and I’ll keep posting ’em. Interesting too how utterly different...
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Quarterly Review: Sunn O))), Swallow the Sun, Beesus, Giöbia, Decasia, Sonic...
The Wednesday of a Quarterly Review is always special to me. In the six, maybe seven, times I’ve done this now, Wednesday has always been the marker of turning to the second half of the week. Hump Day...
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The Western Mystics Stream The Last Western in Full
On my first listen through of The Western Mystics‘ new live release, The Last Western (Live at Treefort 2016), all I had to go by was the waveform. I didn’t know the names of the songs they played, or...
View ArticleFriday Full-Length: Steve Von Till, If I Should Fall to the Field
Steve Von Till, If I Should Fall to the Field (2002) If I Should Fall To The Field by Steve Von Till As we eagerly anticipate the arrival of Neurosis‘ new album, Fires Within Fires, later this month,...
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Sun Blood Stories Post “The Great Destroyer” Video; Reveal It Runs Around the...
Boise, Idaho, psychedelic experimentalists Sun Blood Stories recently succeeded crowdfunding a vinyl release for their upcoming album, It Runs Around the Room with Us, raising over $1,300 in about...
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Steve Von Till’s Harvestman to Release Music for Megaliths May 19
It’s been seven years since last we heard from Harvestman, the could-go-anywhere, tripped-out experimentalist alter-ego of Neurosis guitarist/vocalist Steve Von Till. That outing was a Hawkwind tribute...
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