Off the Mark
These Arms Are Snakes never hits what it’s aiming for—but that’s not a bad thing
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Author Archive
Doom Rider
Arbouretum’s Dave Heumann heads out on the highway
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Girl Trouble
Legendary producer Martin Bisi answers the Siren call of his own music
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Return of the Don
Indie rock capo Damon Che on Don Caballero’s longevity
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Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough
Even after tragedy, Ra Ra Riot keeps going as long as it’s fun
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Baltimore’s Best Hit Cakeshop Tonight
Though he strives to convey an abstract sense of spiritual power in his music, Arbouretum bandleader Dave Heumann understands the power of brittle guitar distortion too. On the Baltimore quartet’s 2007 sophomore album, Rites of Uncovering, Heumann is fond of gazing out onto the vast North African desert as imagined by authors Paul Bowles and
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One Time Only — The Gods Of Grind Return!
If Napalm Death is generally regarded as the act that founded the extreme form of heavy metal known as grindcore, then Carcass is the band that elevated that genre to high art. Carcass was, of course, right there alongside Napalm in the beginning and even once shared guitarist and creative force Bill Steer, whose signature
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The Long and Grinding Road
Fuck The Facts answers tour fatigue with—what else?—a roadtrip
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Last Band Standing
For the Melvins, slow and sludgy wins the race
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Magical Meteorite
Exene Cervenka is best known as the frontwoman of X, but her art
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