The second full-length by Austria’s Perchta is a so-called feminist manifesto—and one of those rare records that not only accomplishes said feat but does so with glorious results. Read my full review via New Noise.
Perchta’s ‘D’Muata’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Perchta on 07/10/2024 by Kurt OrzeckOrbit Culture Try To Keep Momentum Going With Next LP
Posted in Interview Transcripts, Interviews with tags Orbit Culture, Slipknot on 07/09/2024 by Kurt OrzeckIn light of Orbit Culture’s astronomical rise (pun most definitely intended), we break out the transcript of our February conversation with the Swedish band’s frontman. Go to New Noise for a closer look at the Swedish melodic death metal band that everyone—well, OK, the majority of people who have actually heard of the subgenre—are dying to know more about.
Alcest’s ‘Les chants de l’aurore’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Alcest on 07/09/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
DIIV’s ‘Frog In Boiling Water’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags DIIV on 06/19/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
After laying the smacketh down at a killer show in Boise last week, DIIV will continue supporting their latest album, Frog in Boiling Water, with more tour dates through the rest of the year. And for good reason: Post-rock doesn’t get much better than their latest material. Read my full review on FLOOD.
Babe Report’s ‘Did You Get Better’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Babe Report on 06/18/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
More punk in spirit than in sound, Chicago group Babe Report’s lo-fi debut, Did You Get Better (Exploding in Sound), is endearing if also a bit impatient as they keep things loud, fast, and heavily distorted. Read my full review on FLOOD.
Dusk’s ‘Industrie’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Dusk on 06/18/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Dusk, an atmospheric black-metal project from Costa Rica, expect the world to end. But rather than trying to pretend what they believe will happen actually won’t, Dusk seem to have decided to challenge and entertain themselves during the time we all have left. Read my review of their new album, Industrie, courtesy of New Noise.
The David Yow Interview To End All David Yow Interviews
Posted in Interviews with tags David Yow, the Jesus Lizard on 06/17/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Expect to hear a lot about the Jesus Lizard in the coming months, during which the underground rock legends will release their first studio album in 26 years and play a smattering of shows in support of it. But regardless of what articles get published about the band and its immortal frontman, David Yow, you won’t get to know him any better than in this 6,178-word, up-close-and-personal feature just published on New Noise.
From designing billboards for Frozen and Garfield: The Movie to terrifying a hotel room service worker on accident to witnessing a horrific disease claim the life of his mother to briefly meeting Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme to throwing a Led Zeppelin-themed party to resisting Jesus Lizard reunion gigs to getting torn to shreds by his cat to turning the sound of his garage door into a song to breaking his nose on New Year’s Eve to linking up with David Lynch, Yow truly tells all like he never did before—and probably never will again.
GospelbeacH Is Dead. Long Live The Beachwood Sparks.
Posted in Interviews with tags Beachwood Sparks, GospelbeacH on 06/15/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Roughly a decade after Beachwood Sparks co-founder/bassist Brent Rademaker stepped out to front his alt/country project GospelbeacH, he recently scuttled it when his principal posse reactivated. “GospelbeacH was a fluke. … We had our moment,” he says. Read my full interview with Rademaker in the latest edition of The Big Takeover, the last great indie-rock publication. Get yer copy here.
French Cassettes’ ‘Benzene’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags French Cassettes on 06/13/2024 by Kurt OrzeckThe San Francisco quartet hits the perfect balance of intimacy and exhibitionism on their short-but-sweet third album of harmony-based indie pop.
One can imagine that, when French Cassettes listened to the final result of their third album, Benzene, the band members quickly realized they were onto something special.
Check out my full review of French Cassettes’ brand-new record, Benzene, on FLOOD.
Mikaela Davis Talks ‘Predetermined’ Pairing With Circles Around The Sun
Posted in Interviews with tags Circles Around the Sun, Mikaela Davis, The Big Takeover on 06/11/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Instrumentalists Circles Around the Sun and singer/harpist Mikaela Davis may appear to be unlikely collaborators on the surface. But the former’s affinity for psych-rock and the latter’s proclivity for folk and country mesh to their mutual advantage on the recently released After Sunrise.
Read my joint interview with both parties in the latest edition of The Big Takeover, the last great indie-rock publication. Issue #94 just went on sale at bookstores and record shops (the cool ones, that is). But if you’re not in the mood to leave the house, snag a copy here and it’ll magically arrive in your mailbox.
The Bad Penny (beta) 