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by: Kris Handel

Television Personalities - "Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: The Radio Sessions 1980-1993" | Album Review

Television Personalities - "Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: The Radio Sessions 1980-1993" | Album Review

This Television Personalities collection of radio performances has a handful of wonderful and deranged nuggets that show the gifts Treacy and the band possessed even through their roughest personal and professional moments. Television Personalities were a band that should have been more recognized for their impact as their colorful songs laid the foundations for many more recognizable successors.

Being Dead Discuss Soft Pretzels, Gummy Bears, and Their New Album, EELS | Feature Interview

Being Dead Discuss Soft Pretzels, Gummy Bears, and Their New Album, EELS | Feature Interview

Ahead of the release of EELS, Being Dead took time to speak with Post-Trash's Kris Handel. The band have created their own unique space, both in music and their own world blurring fiction and reality, with a quick witted humor and off the cuff story-telling that can baffle the uninitiated. 

Girly Pants - "Nurture" | Album Review

Girly Pants - "Nurture" | Album Review

Nurture is the debut from Chicago’s Girly Pants, a release mixed with a sweetness and ear for melodies, full of heart tugging lyrics about the intricacies of relationships and growing up. Sabreen Alfadel is unafraid to get loud, pairing entertaining guitar riffs along with jazzy shuffles that are full of vitality and a stately cool in the atmosphere.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Robber Robber - "Wild Guess"

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Robber Robber - "Wild Guess"

Robber Robber have truly found their footing in pulsating shards of post-punk noise with an impressive grasp of melody and intoxicating loose grooves. The group manage to stay grounded with a furious punk foundation while mixing in unique song structures and the knack for combining sharp tones and playful exchanges.

Gabriel Birnbaum - "Patron Saint of Tireless Losers" | Album Review

Gabriel Birnbaum - "Patron Saint of Tireless Losers" | Album Review

Gabriel Birnbaum's second "true" solo album, Patron Saint of Tireless Losers, finds him looking inside himself. He mines melodies of early California psych and singer-songwriter observations, combining spiky rock with gentle examinations on purpose and connection. His songwriting is a unique strength, trawling the depth of human nature.

Babehoven - "Water's Here In You" | Album Review

Babehoven - "Water's Here In You" | Album Review

Maya Bon has shown herself to be adept at heart-wrenching emotions and expressing the hidden beauty in daily life in a manner thats wholesomely gripping. With Water's Here in You, Babehoven have managed to push beyond guitar based folk songs, incorporating a denser atmosphere that moves through pain into contemplative peace.