Gareth Liddiard (Tropical Fuck Storm, Springtime, The Drones) Takes Stock | Feature Interview
Should I Tell You The Truth or Bullshit You? An Interview with Oxbow’s Eugene S. Robinson
Known for the seminal hardcore band Whipping Boy and later Oxbow, Eugene S Robinson is in perpetual motion. He’s a journalist whose work has appeared in GQ, The Wire, LA Weekly, among many others. He’s also a bodybuilder, martial arts expert, LSD evangelist, and gun enthusiast. His new memoir, A Walk Across Dirty Water and Straight into Murderer’s Row, touches on all these polymathic aspects of his wildly eccentric life, from his childhood in 1970s Brooklyn through his touring days in Whipping Boy. During our interview, Robinson is nothing if not candid. He’s quick to laugh and easily spun into a yarn. Having a conversation with Robinson is akin to being swept up by a narrative tornado.
Lifeguard: The Shape of Punk to Come | Feature Interview
A week before the release of Dressed In Trenches, Lifeguard sat down with Post-Trash to set the record straight about their influences, how they go about writing their brand of ferocious, angular guitar music, rad tour spots, cool bands in an exploding Chicago local scene, and how they stay sane on the road.
Big|Brave - "Nature Morte" | Album Review
Rick Froberg Inspired a Generation of Musicians Like Me | Feature
Rick Froberg, vocalist and guitarist of San Diego post-hardcore band Drive Like Jehu, died Friday June 30th at age 55. As the tributes have come pouring in, it’s clear Froberg had an outsized influence on modern guitar music. While this piece is a tribute to Froberg, it’s also a personal reckoning with a musician who in many ways was a cypher of my own lived experience.
Slow Salvation - "Decay" | Post-Trash Premiere
Slow Salvation may appear a new band, but the project has deep roots in the shoegaze/dream pop world. The band’s songwriter/producer Travis Trevisan is the sole permanent member of shoegaze stalwarts Tape Deck Mountain, while singer Christina Hernandez has her own ethereal electro-pop project Orion Lake.
This Band Is Gorgeous: Inside the Making of the New York Duo's Boundary-Pushing New Album | Feature Interview
Sapsucker represents a leap forward for Gorgeous, both artistically and musically, from the duo’s debut. While both feature acrobatic drumming accompanying whimsical vocals and idiosyncratic guitar playing, there’s a sense of intentionality to Sapsucker’s bold embrace of melody. We sat down with Gorgeous to discuss the experience of making their ambitious new album, what’s changed, and what’s still inspiring them in a post-pandemic world.
FACS - "Still Life In Decay" | Album Review
The Enduring Legacy of Moss Icon: An Interview with Tonie Joy | Feature Interview
Tonie Joy, Moss Icon guitarist and the unofficial caretaker of the band’s story, has a grounded perspective on Moss Icon and the singular music they made. No, the band wasn’t trying to sound like anything, or invent anything. Rather, it was an escape for Joy and his bandmates, a way to cope with a world that felt volatile and chaotic.
Oozing Wound - "We Cater To Cowards" | Album Review
Oozing Wound are a heavy band born from the fertile stomping grounds of Chicago’s DIY scene and have a penchant for delivering albums chalk-full of songs too heavy to have made In Utero. We Cater to Cowards is something of a departure from previous releases, albeit not one as drastic as some of the discourse has made it out to be.
M(h)aol - "Attachment Styles" | Album Review
Attachment Styles is a noisy, biting evisceration of binary patriarchal culture that crackles with a deep unease disguised as sardonic wit. It’s hard not to start with an examination of the album’s lyrical content because it’s so visceral, but the music – a delicious take on post-punk that’s part Gila Band, part Spray Paint – is equally compelling.
PJ Harvey - "B-Sides, Demos & Rarities" | Album Review
Despite her prolific output, the PJ Harvey archives still boast plenty of rare and previously unreleased material to spare, enough to fill the 6xLP box set. B-Sides, Demos & Rarities, released last year to the delight of hardcore PJ Harvey fans, is all the evidence one needs to crown Harvey one of the greatest songwriters of her generation.
Blessed - "Circuitous" | Album Review
ALBUM OF THE WEEK: PJ Harvey - "B-Sides, Demos & Rarities"
Alvvays - "Blue Rev" | Album Review
Considering the band delivered their new album, Blue Rev, after multiple all-night sessions, just barely hitting their vinyl production deadline, and that it’s been five years since their last album, one might expect Alvvays’ third album to feel overthought. On the contrary, Alvvays have created their most surprising and rewarding album yet.
Lincoln - "Repair and Reward" | Album Review
Chat Pile - "God's Country" | Album Review
Chat Pile have made an album that’s as terrifying to listen to as it is deeply lyrically unsettling. To call the bowel-loosening low end of God’s Country the century’s sludgiest is not hyperbole; they deploy a lethal arsenal of detuned sonic bombardment that is nauseating, beautiful, punishing, an ideal foil for the ravings of Raygun Busch.
Fime - "Sweeter Memory" | Album Review
Fime’s Sweeter Memory is a rock album in the way rock albums rarely get made anymore, one that revels in its influences without succumbing to them. The album subsumes the band’s influences – power pop, country, psychedelia, surf rock, emo, and punk – and then produces good songs which sound uniquely themselves.
