independent music
Music reviews
+7
Feb 27, 2026
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7 min read
Square Root Age: Shane Parish does Autechre, plus other new/recent releases by London Clay, Mod Lang, Exek and Stones Taro
Feb 24, 2026
Rolling it over: Station Model Violence, The Serfs, Flaccid Mojo, Gerard Cosloy, Universal Light
Feb 20, 2026
8 min read
Caught up (in a one-night tube of air): Laughing Hyenas, Here, Messthetics & Brandon James Lewis, Winged Wheel, Eternal Music Society
Feb 19, 2026
6 min read
Salve for the impatient: Slugfeast, Sexaphone, Badger Hunt and more
Feb 17, 2026
Bonus week at last: first of three newsletters, with Institute, Drop Nineteens, Van Goth and more
Feb 13, 2026
FREE edition abbreviated due to illness: Ulrika Spacek, OrOrOr, Dial Alaska. DEAL WITH ME!
Feb 11, 2026
10 min read
Live from Sick Bay: Huggy Bear, Roy Montgomery, Sunday Mourners, Tinned Meats, Geologist
Feb 6, 2026
Hustlin' hard: Picture, E.R. Jurken, Blood Cookie, Itchy and the Nits, Belgrado, Val Acton Loper, Bungee Jumpers
Feb 3, 2026
The onslaught begins: Cult Objects, GUV, Bitchin Bajas, Doe St, Barry Walker Jr.
Jan 29, 2026
General Strike Edition: VU and TV bootz
Jan 27, 2026
11 min read
Consider the order: Molasses, Life Expectancy, Hiraeth, Maxine Funke, The Drags
Jan 23, 2026
Freeze 'em out! Smirk, Richard Youngs, Urlaub in Polen, YĪN YĪN and some Bay Area free rock spray
Jan 20, 2026
You picked a strange one: Jana Horn, Sternpost, The Austrasian Goat, Jacky Cougar, Bruce Russell
Jan 16, 2026
9 min read
Missing the changes: Celebrity Telethon, SAULT, Dry Cleaning, Plosivs, Human Hai
Jan 13, 2026
WE GET LETTERS: Church Car, Lavender & The Flu and more
Jan 9, 2026
Temper it: Emily Robb, Charles Tyler, Cemento, more
Jan 6, 2026
First reviews of a new year
Jan 2, 2026
15 min read
Finally, my top 10 of 2025
Dec 30, 2025
4 min read
One more to go
Dec 27, 2025
3 min read
Working up to the top 10
Movie reviews
+8
Dec 19, 2025
Switching back to new music reviews: Equipment Pointed Ankh, Ligament, and eight other hitters
Dec 16, 2025
17 min read
Really good list of records from 2025, and movies from earlier
Dec 12, 2025
IT CONTINUES: Australia / NZ / Tasmania, and 10 more film discoveries after the jump
Dec 9, 2025
12 min read
IT BEGINS
Dec 5, 2025
Tapes, news, etc.
