Any music fan from the 90’s will understand that Butch Vig needs little to no introduction. As the drummer and co-producer of Garbage and the producer of Nirvana’s historic Nevermind, Vig has laid his musical blueprint and then some. But as many a good musical mind, Vig is honing in on the present to showcase…
Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi missed playing live music in front of crowds, so he started his own band, CRX. Stepping out from his support role in the Strokes, Valensi has adapted to his lead role as writer/singer/frontman incredibly well. His new album, New Skin, bears the unmistakable mark of producer and QOTS front man, Josh…
Thomas Fec is the frontman of Black Moth Super Rainbow, and also creates music under the name Tobacco. Tobacco just released it’s fourth full-length album, Sweatbox Dynasty, which warps 80’s electronic synthesizers into a unique infectious dissonance. Sweatbox succeeds in going into even deeper and darker place sound than previous Tobacco albums, which might be…
By John Wittenmyer Few bands have proven to be as deeply influential, yet remain as relatively obscure as Dungen. The Swedish psych-rockers are best known for their 2004 masterpiece, ‘Ta Det Lugnt’, which was received to international acclaim and put them on the map as pioneers of the modern psychedelic movement. Since then, while psych…