Don’t believe that headline? Check out my feature on the wild — and wildly unclassifiable — band in my Music Connection profile.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum ‘Got on Top of a Pile of Festering Rat Carcasses’
Posted in Interviews with tags Sleepytime Gorilla Museum on 05/07/2024 by Kurt OrzeckInter Arma’s ‘New Heaven’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Inter Arma 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.
Flipside Fest’s Fall Festivities Fizzle for 2024
Posted in News with tags Flipside Festival, Treefort on 04/29/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
In another setback for the struggling music scene in Boise, Idaho, the promoter of Flipside Fest announced today that they have canceled this year’s installment of the event.
The promoters behind the festival, The Duck Club, said the multi-stage, multi-day event will happen again next year. Nevertheless, the cancellation of Flipside Fest 2024 is the latest black eye for concert organizers in Boise, following one of the most lackluster Treefort Fest events in recent memory.
“Don’t worry, Flipside friends: We will be back!” read a post on the website for promoter The Duck Club. “You may be asking, ‘Why is Flipside taking a year off?’ To put it simply: the Duck Club team needs a bit of a summer break.”
Continue readingDrahla’s ‘Angeltape’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Captured Tracks, Drahla on 04/27/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Drahla’s sophomore album, released via Captured Tracks, sees the Leeds-based trio overcoming grief over instrumental flourishes that recall yesteryear while artfully resisting the lure of entering a time machine. Read more of my album review on FLOOD.
Congrats To Tim Heidecker For Joining Bloodshot
Posted in Comedy, News with tags Bloodshot Records, Tim Heidecker on 04/24/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Rat’s off to ya too for the new record you’re putting out later this year. Best see a doctor first, though, Tim (not Dr. San)!
High On Fire’s ‘Cometh The Storm’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags High on Fire, Matt Pike on 04/22/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
After a relatively long wait, Matt Pike’s sludge-metal outfit High on Fire return with their most adventurous, pigeonhole-smashing, and idiosyncratic release to date. Here is my FLOOD review.
Boise’s Music Scene Just Can’t Get It Together
Posted in Essays with tags boise, music, music-news, News, rock on 04/15/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Over roughly the past decade, the most popular conversational topic among music fans living in Boise is how the city’s live-music scene continues to build in size and strength, attracting more national acts to perform here than ever before. Locals begrudgingly admit the growth is due to the influx of fresh transplants and the economic boon those newcomers have bequeathed to a city, even if it might forever be referred to as a merely “up-and-coming” place.
Continue readingSleater-Kinney Talk ‘Recommitting’ To Band After Restful Hiatus
Posted in Interviews with tags Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker, Sleater-Kinney on 04/15/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
It’s been a minute since I spoke with two musicians less enthusiastic about participating in an interview, but Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein nevertheless shared some insights on their new record and the state of their band for my new FLOOD feature.
New Kids On The Block: Forever Young
Posted in Interviews with tags Donnie Wahlberg, New Kids on the Block on 03/31/2024 by Kurt OrzeckGrab a copy of the latest issue of Music Connection or go here to read my latest cover story, in which I interviewed two New Kids on the Block about their new album. Yup, you read that right.
The Giving Tree(fort): Boise’s Bountiful Fest
Posted in News with tags a place to bury strangers, Ex Everything, French Cassettes, So Pitted, Treefort Music Fest on 03/29/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Last weekend, Boise’s annual Treefort Music Fest featured one of its weakest rosters of artists in the history of the event. But neither the anemic bill nor the dicey weather deterred local music lovers from checking out live sets across the modest city.
Read the most comprehensive history yet of Treefort Music Fest in the just-released April edition of Boise Lifestyle, one of the last glossy magazines left in Idaho. (Or peruse the online version of the story here.) Also, don’t miss New Noise Magazine profiles of 2024 Treefort participants A Place to Bury Strangers, Ex Everything, So Pitted, Sistemas Inestables and French Cassettes.
The Bad Penny (beta) 