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Andy's most recent reviews
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යන්ත්ර.මන්ත්ර.ගුරුකම්!, 2020
Given that I’ve put together year-end lists of the strangest albums I heard for the past couple years, I was pointed to this release coming out of Sri Lanka. It’s ...
Puppy and the Hand Jobs
I Hate Everything, 2019
It'd be quite easy to write off (the fantastically named) Puppy and the Hand Jobs for making self-described “trash rock and roll.” Much as is the case with bands like The ...
Avant Duel
Beyond Human, 2012
Spaceman comes to Earth, fronts rock band!It sounds like it might be a Weekly World News headline or the subplot to a ‘60s-era Godzilla film, yet this is allegedly what happened when, in the ...
The Violet Mindfield
Hello Darling, 2019
While music groups have tried to emulate the sounds of the past in various ways, this is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the world of psychedelic music. Though one ...
Andy's most recent features
Music SXSW 2018
Posted April 8, 2018, 12:53 p.m.The year's third month is always a crazy time to be in Austin, what with the South by Southwest Festival taking up March's middle third, but the overall ...
One Question Interviews Cindy Marabito (The Dicks From Texas)
Posted Dec. 5, 2017, 1:13 p.m.Cindy Marabito (The Dicks From Texas) SPB: Living in Austin and being a part of South by Southwest for the last several years, I'm often struck by the, what ...
Music SXSW 2017
Posted April 15, 2017, 1:38 a.m.A year after the standing President of the United States attended and lectured at the South by Southwest Festival, politics were again front and center for much of 2017's ...
One Question Interviews Scene Point Blank - Spryos Stasis
Posted June 1, 2016, 3:33 a.m.Spyros Stasis SPB: (How) Has work in sound engineering affected your music tastes and/or reviewing? Spyros Stasis: It has not affected so much my outlook on the quality of ...
Andy's most recent news stories
Records SPB Exclusive Album Stream: Beneath the Bones by KaiL Baxley
Posted March 5, 2020, 11:42 a.m.
Looking at the bio of singer-songwriter KaiL Baxley – having dance-offs witha then-incarcerated James Brown while visiting his also incarcerated mother, supporting himself as a teenager by digging graves, his Golden ...
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Records SPB Premiere: "Brutal Tandem" by Fred Cracklin
Posted Feb. 25, 2020, 9:44 a.m.
Based in Western Massachusetts, Fred Cracklin, the duo of guitarist Adam Bosse and drummer Max Goldstein, describes their music as “spazz metal jazz.” For me, the name of the lead ...
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Records SPB Premiere - "State and Perish" by Shadow People
Posted Feb. 11, 2020, 9:25 a.m.
A sense of tension and unease pervades Batom Rouge, the upcoming third release (following 2017’s Pharamoans and the following year’s Secrets) from Baton Rouge trio Shadow People. Describing ...
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Records Video Premiere - "Casual and Reckless" by Restless Habs
Posted Feb. 4, 2020, 12:18 p.m.
Since 2008, Cleveland, Ohio’s Restless Habs, originally formed by veteran players Ken Blaze and Peter Woodward of the Unknown, have been steadily pumping out releases (six EPs to date ...
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Andy's most recent blogposts
Seeking Respite from Ubiquitous Holiday Pop...
Posted Dec. 25, 2015, 4:03 p.m. by Andy
In the month leading up to the holiday, it's often difficult to escape the near-continual assault of schmaltzy Christmas music. It seems virtually every artist of note in the last ...Andy's Favorite Horror Film Soundtracks
Posted Oct. 31, 2015, 11:11 a.m. by Andy
Though usually panned by the majority of film critics – the mainstream ones anyway- horror films seem to be a Hollywood mainstay that just won't go away. This is hardly ...Film Review - 1988's Not of This Earth
Posted Oct. 31, 2015, 10:27 a.m. by Andy
Made in 1957, director Roger Corman's typically efficient low-budget sci-fi flick Not of This Earth came to be regarded as a minor genre classic in the years to come – and ...Film Review - Profondo Rosso, a.k.a. Deep Red
Posted Oct. 31, 2015, 10:09 a.m. by Andy
In the midst of the opening credits sequence for Italian director Dario Argento's 1975 Profondo Rosso (a.k.a. Deep Red), the viewer is treated to a truncated scene appearing to show ...
