Bob's most recent reviews
Cult of Luna
Vertikal, 2013
These heavy bands are increasingly showing off their cultural literacy while still bludgeoning their listeners with a heady mix of loud guitars and cavernous sounding drums, and Cult Of Luna is in ...
Aidan Baker
Closure Axioms, 2012
For as prolific as Aidan Baker is (besides his most known musical endeavor Nadja, he is involved in a slew of other projects as well such as Arc and Infinite Light), his solo material seems criminally ...
Saturday Looks Good To Me
All Your Summer Songs (Re-Issue), 2012
Have you ever gone to a show for one artist or band that you look forward to seeing so much and, instead, walk away talking about one of the openers ...
Nadja
Corrasion (Reissue), 2012
Being an acquired taste is a blessing for some bands as they get to be as adventurous as they could ever want to be and their “fan” base usually will ...
Bob's most recent features
Interviews Crooked Necks
Posted Feb. 18, 2012, 8 a.m.Coming to me via the excellent Handmade Birds label, Crooked Necks dropped into my world via an LP, Alright Is Exactly What It Isn’t, and a Joy Division covers ...
Interviews Life in the Dark
Posted Jan. 16, 2012, 1:15 a.m.Zen Zsigo is the driving force behind a great many creative projects from labels (Sunyata Recordings, Strange Rules) to music (Maths, Life In The Dark, Livimorket), and Life in the ...
Interviews Greys
Posted Dec. 25, 2011, 1:29 a.m.After being inexorably sucked into the first release from the ambient-esque Greys (imagine an ambient act with vocals), In Fades and knowing that an album was forthcoming, I wanted to ...
Interviews Giles Corey
Posted Nov. 2, 2011, 7:01 a.m.Giles Corey is the long in gestation solo project of one Dan Barrett (half of the duo Have A Nice Life and part owner and purveyor of Enemies List Recordings ...
Bob's most recent blogposts
It's been a long time
Posted March 16, 2008, 2:56 a.m. by Bob Last night my band played with Souvenir's Young America, City of Ships, and Monolith at Siren Records in Doylestown, PA; it was a fun time all the bands played real ...In Remembrance of Kid Kilowatt
Posted Jan. 29, 2008, 11:04 a.m. by Bob So, back when Cave In's Until Your Heart Stops dropped on the hardcore masses several years back, I had the chance of catching the band at Middlesex County Community College. ...Oh Gehenna...how you make me smile
Posted Jan. 8, 2008, 11:45 a.m. by Bob I broke out my CD for the Gehenna- The War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness and saw something that always made me smile. Allow me ...Be Afraid Vol.1
Posted July 19, 2007, 8:36 a.m. by Bob Part 1: Mission Statement, Introduction, and first terribly nostalgic musing A number of years ago, a few friends of mine, myself, and people who would quickly become my friends used ...Bob's bio
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