Stutter Steps at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

If you’ve been to concerts at The Andy Warhol Museum, you may be familiar with the man who has been curating these prestigious indie artists for the past 15 years. He introduces the shows, but now he’s doing something different at the mic: presenting his own music as the singer-guitarist for Stutter Steps. Stutter Steps… Continue reading Stutter Steps at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SPC ECO at AllMusic

Dark Matter is the sixth full-length album by SPC ECO, a project centered around former Curveguitarist Dean Garcia and his daughter Rose Berlin, with contributions from numerous guest musicians. While the group started out making noisy yet poppy electronic-tinged shoegaze in the vein of Garcia‘s former band, it abandoned guitars for its 2014 album, The… Continue reading SPC ECO at AllMusic

Stutter Steps at Big Takeover

Wistful, jangling, quietly anthemic, “Set Radio Clock” is the second single off Stutter Steps’ self-titled debut on Wild KIndness Records. The Pittsburgh-based band, formed by vocalist and guitarist Ben Harrison with local musicians including Jeff Baron of The Essex Green and Ladybug Transistor (the current line up includes drummer Sean Finn,David Horn on bass, guitarist… Continue reading Stutter Steps at Big Takeover

Antlered Aunt Lord at Big Takeover

As Antlered Aunt Lord, Tunabunny drummer, Jesse Stinnard, serves up his solo debut of odd, incongruent lo-fi recordings that somehow make sense as an album. Ostensibly Formerly Stunted (and on fire)exists as the audio diary of one who sees the world entirely through their own goggles. Shades of the gritty 1990s Los Angeles Poop Alley Studios… Continue reading Antlered Aunt Lord at Big Takeover

Postal Blue at Innocent Words

‘Of Love and Other Affections’ (Jigsaw Records) is the second album from Brazil’s Postal Blue, who have been around (though not very actively) for nearly 18 years now with previous releases on Drive-In, Shelflife and Cloudberry Records. One listen and anyone could easily be convinced that this was a lost Sarah Records release, with its songs… Continue reading Postal Blue at Innocent Words