Meatbodies Frontman: ‘Kim Gordon Is The Shit’

Posted in Interviews with tags , , , on 06/10/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Behold, the latest and greatest issue of The Big Takeover, the last great indie-rock publication created by inimitably cool dude Jack Rabid. In it you’ll find one of three feature pieces scribbled by yours truly, including a profile on long-running garage-rock gurus Meatbodies.

The magazine features our wide-ranging conversation with frontman and Ty Segall collaborator Chad Ubovich, who transparently opens up about achieving sobriety, the new Meatbodies album Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom (In the Red) and bouncing back after losing his ability to walk.

Issue #94 of The Big Takeover 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!

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Cloak In ‘Early Stages Of Working On New Material’ 

Posted in Interviews with tags , on 06/09/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Like the Olympic torch, black-metal band Cloak seems poised to be on fire forever. The Atlantans delivered the strongest set at last year’s Hell in the Harbor in Baltimore, parted ways with their former record label and issued The Bad Penny’s favorite record of 2023—yet Scott Taysom and company are showing no signs of letting up.

Speaking of “signs,” Music Connection just published a new “Signing Story” on Cloak, written by yours truly. (Please quickly forget the abysmal attempt at a pun in the previous sentence.) The print edition of the mag is now available, but if you can’t afford or find it, here‘s the online version of the piece.

Signing Story with Mammoth Black Metal troupe Cloak

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Treefort Music Fest Director ‘In Awe’ Of Its Impressive Growth

Posted in Interviews with tags , on 06/08/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Check out my short-but-sweet profile on Treefort Music Fest Co-Founder and Director Eric Gilbert in the latest issue of Meridian Lifestyle. Or, if you don’t feel like running around town trying to locate a copy, read the online version here.

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Shellac’s ‘To All Trains’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags , on 05/18/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Check out my FLOOD review of To All Trains, which is presumably the final studio album by indispensable, iconoclastic noise-rock outfit Shellac. The analysis also includes some my reflections on the band’s guitarist/vocalist and one of rock’s most singular engineers ever, Steve Albini. (His song “Bad Penny,” created with his previous outfit Big Black, inspired the name of this website.)

Days before Albini suffered a fatal heart attack at his own Electrical Audio studio in Chicago, the underground legend agreed to talk with me about To All Trains (Touch and Go), 26 years after our first and only other conversation. A transcription of that first interview will surface online soon; sadly—but not a smidgen as sad as his passing—the second rendezvous never transpired.

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Jesus Lizard Interview and Exclusive News: The Naked Truth, Pt. 1

Posted in Interviews with tags , on 05/17/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

What’s up next for the gang of not-quite-yet-geriatrics? In addition to one-off festival appearances, are David Yow and company creating their special brew of music: classic-rock, spray-painted with a punk-rock sensibility? Our probe begins with this article originally published via New Noise.

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Camera Obscura’s ‘Look To The East, Look To The West’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags on 05/16/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

The Glaswegian chamber-pop quartet’s comeback record finds the group nestling back into its comfort zone, soothing the soul like the band used to. Read my full review on FLOOD‘s website.

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METZ’s ‘Up on Gravity Hill’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags , on 05/11/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

The Toronto noise-punks’ fifth LP sees their familiarly angular guitars working through melodies that range from ear-sweetening to atonal, furthering the mystery that is the Sub Pop band METZ. Read more on FLOOD.

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Orbit Culture Plan to ‘Come Back Big’ in 2025

Posted in Interviews with tags , on 05/09/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

The Swedish metal band is eager to proving they aren’t just another melodic death-metal band from the country that brought legendary status to the subgenre. Read more of my interview with them courtesy of Music Connection.

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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum ‘Got on Top of a Pile of Festering Rat Carcasses’

Posted in Interviews with tags on 05/07/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Don’t believe that headline? Check out my feature on the wild — and wildly unclassifiable — band in my Music Connection profile.

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Inter Arma’s ‘New Heaven’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags on 05/04/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

The Virginia sludge quintet’s fifth album, issued via Relapse Records, exhibits Inter Arma’s penchant for probing the innards of metal and reconstructing it into a seamless new visage. Read more on FLOOD.

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