0 September 24, 2021 Idiosyncrasy For A Deeper Purpose – “Heatwave” by Negative Nancies When things are said to have appeared ‘out of the blue’ the exact nature of the...
0 September 14, 2021 TRYPTICH INTO DARKNESS – Trance to the Moon “Lavendar Skies” / FLOSSING “Queen of the Mall” EP / Voidant “Voidant” TRANCE TO THE MOON – Lavendar Skies From Echo and Teardrop and other...
0 September 2, 2021 The Undying Light of Craft and Humanity – “Collected – The Best of John Howard” You just can’t win. It doesn’t matter if I’d begun writing about music thirty years before...
0 August 16, 2021 TRIPTYCH INTO DARKNESS (The Icy Cold Records Edition) – Mekong “End of the Word” / Bleib Modern “Afraid to Leave” / Order 89 “L’été des Corbeaux” MEKONG – End of the World Every year there’s at least one record (or twenty) that...
0 July 25, 2021 One Cannot Help But Reach for the Superlatives – the black watch’s “Led Zeppelin Five, 10-Year Anniversary Remaster” “You know the feeling. You glance at the calendar – yep, we still hang ’em on...
0 July 16, 2021 Catchy Clever Craftful & Intuitively Sussed – LMNOP Return with New Album “whatNOP dOWN7” It was 1989 I was 33 years old and moving to Portland from San Francisco don’t...
0 July 8, 2021 TRIPTYCH INTO DARKNESS – Whispering Sons “Several Others” / XTR HUMAN “G.O.L.D.” / The City Gates “Age of Resilience” WHISPERING SONS – Several Others How unlucky am I? Having launched this column a couple...
0 June 27, 2021 Like an Ever-Unfolding Epiphany – Lanterna’s Translucent Eighth Album “Hidden Drives” Looping, loping, pausing for a suspended second, driving on, the world with all that lush and...
0 June 13, 2021 Once Again Proven Peerless, a Genre Unto Themselves – “Rejoice” from Der Blutharsch and the Infinite Church of the Leading Hand A teasing mystery attends. In the post a small envelope arrives from Germany. Aside from the...
0 June 6, 2021 TRIPTYCH INTO DARKNESS – Slighter “V O I D” / HALLOWS “All That is True” / Jason Priest “Jason Priest is Missing” SLIGHTER – V O I D (Confusion Inc) We’ve been here before in the pages of...