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Return to Love (Sub Pop)

"...the Creator"), guitar progressions expand through pastoral acoustics and fuzz grime. Contemplating heartbreak in "Pain" and posing existential questions..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

Minus the Bear

Voids (Suicide Squeeze)

"...carries on the guitar-centric post-rock that punches through hazy fuzz. "Last Kiss" opens up expansive soundscapes led this time..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

SRV’s Pride & Joy on Display

Stevie Ray Vaughan exhibit opens at the Bullock

"...on, and SRV’s complete live rig: Tube Screamer and Fuzz Face stompboxes plugged into a combination of Dumble, Marshall,..."

March 9, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music Interview: Bilal

“I’m a jazz artist by trade,” states the Philly-born Grammy winner

"...tom-toms crackle ("Sirens II"), keys ripple ("Spiraling"), and guitars fuzz ("Money Over Love"). Following the political strain of Kendrick..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature by Alejandra Ramirez

SXSW Tuesday Showcase Picks

"...King Cayman is a cacophony of fuzz mayhem and aggressive guitar jerks wheelbarrowed through a frantic..."

March 10, 2017 Music Feature

Putting the Pedal to the Metal

Edgar Wright cranks up the jams for his new film Baby Driver

"...his famous Cornetto trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End). However, Wright sees it as..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Gay Place Guide to a Kweer SX 2017

SXSW: Another year queerer

"...the Artist, Keeper, Lauren Dickens selling Awful Goods, Peach Fuzz magazine, and queer music podcast Homoground...."

March 3, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Free Week Live Shots

Swan Dive, Jan. 1

"...led by women, presented by local sex-positive quarterly Peach Fuzz magazine, offered just about everything musically. A large Sunday..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

SXSW Music List No. 3

Dead Meadow, Sad13, Cindy Wilson, Lizzo, Boogarins, and 494 others

"...star Skott, South Korean garage rockers Galaxy Express, Argentina’s fuzzed-out New Wave trio Las Kellies, eclectic Japanese punks Otoboke..."

Jan. 10, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

UVH

"...the depths of alternative nation indie rock. Warmly dissonant jangle-fuzz and nervous propulsion drive "Innervisions," belying the introspection in..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Music Review by Michael Toland

Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones in Mono (ABKCO)

"...drums hit harder; Bill Wyman's bass thrums fatter; Richards' fuzz bursts on "Satisfaction," "Please Go Home," and "Citadel" now..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Grunge

Mother Love Bone / Temple of the Dog / Soundgarden / Tad

"...uglier, burlier, and more single-minded than their brothers in fuzz. Expanded reissues of 1989's God's Balls, 1990's Salt Lick,..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Playback: Black Friday? End of an Ear!

End of an Ear's new digs thrive just in time for Black Friday

"...the garage-rock en Español of Jóvenes Adultos, English-language psych fuzz group Cascabel, and Risin' Sun, a Wayne Kramer-approved power..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 24

"...Nathaniel Rateliff's "S.O.B." nails another vocal peak. More kinetic fuzz busters like White Denim's "Ha Ha Ha Ha (Yeah)"..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Brownout

"...orchestral kings Grupo Fantasma, Brownout's booming horn section and fuzz riffs intertwine like sinewy limbs in "Snowblind," and thrash..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Music Review by Alejandra Ramirez

Sound on Sound Review: Girls Against Boys

Bass-gorged NYC noirists erase their absence

"...Alexis Fleisig. Scott McCloud overlays the hip-shaking rumble with fuzz-choked chords somewhere between Northwestern grunge and New Yawk noise...."

Nov. 6, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

Sound on Sound Review: Beach Slang

Paging John Hughes

"...guitarist cutting loose good and loud, gravelly howl and fuzz-bristling attack intact. Beach Slang’s go-for-broke performances have become as..."

Nov. 5, 2016 Music Post by Libby Webster

Friday SOS Record Reviews

A Weird Exits (Castle Face)

"...by distorted, ethereal vocals above a thrash of ripping, fuzz guitars and caveman drums, Dwyer's shouts of "woo!" punctuating..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Dream Pop

Four acts for the sleepy set

"...his legs along with hummable pop choruses marked by fuzz guitar...."

Nov. 4, 2016 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

ACL Review: Lincoln Durham

Post-blues tug of war between God and the Satan

"...Zilker Park woke up, this wholly blackened prophet of fuzz – black shirt, black pants, black bandana, black mohawk..."

Oct. 8, 2016 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

ACL Review: Radiohead

Über headliners prove unrivaled still

"...woven into the ominous red glow and disorienting frequency fuzz, the band began Friday night with a snippet of..."

Oct. 1, 2016 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

Wild Bill & the Lost Knobs

"...Burrito Bros.-style boogie, "Keep Us Separated" injects a sick, fuzz-and-treble-boosted lead guitar heading straight into the Don Rich Telecaster..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Review by Tim Stegall

Worst Tour Stories Ever: The Black Angels

"...turned this device on every time Christian hit his fuzz pedal. He twisted, tapped, and waved it at us..."

July 8, 2016 Music Feature by Alex Maas

Black Pistol Fire

"...Cussin'" finds McKeown's hollowbody warbling Seventies riffs and dust-devil fuzz, Owen getting heavy with strained half-time beats. The intensity..."

June 24, 2016 Music Review by Alejandra Ramirez

Pale Dian

"...on this formula: more electronics here ("The Avenue"), more fuzz there ("Lonesome Waste"), even forays into glimmer pop ("Diana")...."

June 3, 2016 Music Review by Michael Toland

Gay Place

Space on TV solely for LGBTQIA ladies has been scant since that mediocre Showtime series

"...The Nothing Song "Rainbow fuzz power" band Pearl Earl is kickin' off a tour..."

May 13, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Levitation Kick-Off

Even after Levitation’s cancellation ... the shows went on!

"...Afrodisiac and even tracks from this year’s The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur EP in favor of songs..."

April 29, 2016 Music Post by Michael Toland

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats

"...Death" conjure insidious atmospherics spewing pupil-dilating melodies and abrasive, fuzz-cloaked crescendos. (Fri., 11pm, Elevation Amphitheater)..."

April 29, 2016 Music Review by Alejandra Ramirez

Parquet Courts

"...steers a breezy bongo jam into a fusillade of fuzz. (Sat., 4:35pm, Reverberation stage)..."

April 29, 2016 Music Review by Greg Beets

Ty Segall

"...Mikal Cronin, wandering into prog turf amidst the usual fuzz blasts. Time signatures change gears with neck-snapping regularity, underpinned..."

April 29, 2016 Music Review by Tim Stegall

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