Dusted Magazine Features and Reviews

Hunx - Hairdresser Blues

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Tobias Carroll
For a minute, let's talk personas. Seth Bogart makes music under the name Hunx; you could hear him as a member of the party-punk band Gravy Train!!! across a few albums released a few years ago, and, more recently, you could hear him leading the garage-punk group Hunx and His Punx. With the release... Read More

From the Mouth of the Sun - Woven Tide

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Adrian Dziewanski
When deconstructing Woven Tide , the debut album by the newly formed duo From the Mouth of the Sun, the notion of melancholia seems a good place to start. Once the dust clears from the opening seconds of the first track, The Crossing, the album's skulking in the depths of melancholia becomes... Read More

Woods / Amps for Christ - Woods / Amps for Christ

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Jennifer Kelly
In Amps for Christ, Henry Barnes may have, in some ways, anticipated Woods' noise-inflected folk pop. Coming out of hardcore and metal in the mid-1990s, he explored ways to place churning distortion in harmony with delicate, multi-ethnic plucking, sounding more like latter day Woodsist outfits... Read More

Cornershop - Urban Turban: The Singhles Club

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Jon Dale
At its most potent, the 45 rpm single is the great democratizer of popular music one song a side, cheap enough to take a punt on with spare change or worth pumping a dime into a jukebox, a seductive slab of black vinyl that, heard with the right frame of mind, still unlocks the magic of song for... Read More

V/A - We Juke Up in Here

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Derek Taylor
After he's gone, that's it. - Terry Harmonica Bean Those prophetic words set a bittersweet stage for We Juke Up in Here . Though they were spoken in the film's precursor, M is for Mississippi and in specific reference to bluesman Cedell Davis, they represent a recurring theme of... Read More

Josephine Foster and The Victor Herrero Band - Perlas

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Jon Dale
Josephine Foster's voice, a gravity-defying instrument at the best of times, has been pressed into all kinds of service over the past decade, since she first broke cover with the soured folk-rock of All The Leaves Have Gone : children's music, Tin Pan Alley, settings of Emily Dickinson poems... Read More

MV + EE - Space Homestead

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Jon Dale
There are two ways of wading through the world of rural American song-poets Matt Valentine and Erika Elder. There's the light skim, where you take in their key albums for labels like Ecstatic Peace!, Three Lobed and Woodsist, where they come as close as they can to distilling the essence of their... Read More

Man Forever - Pansophical Cataract

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Bill Meyer
Inspired by Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music , Man Forever achieves a similar feat to engage in pursuits that are generally the province of the avant-garde without ceding an iota of essential rock attitude. But while Lou Reed waited over three decades before he revisited MMM , Oneida... Read More

Merchandise - Children of Desire

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Doug Mosurock
If you find yourself flipping through a merch box at an upcoming hardcore punk show, the Merchandise records you'd find are the poppiest, most accessible slabs in there by at least the length of two bullet belts. I'm not sure how old these guys are, but they lead the DIY charge in nostalgia-rooted... Read More

The Chrome Cranks - Aint No Lies in Blood

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Ben Donnelly
Rubber rat! How about that? Yeah, I'm back! Girl, you're going to like it! shouts Peter Aaron on the second track of Ain't No Lies in Blood . Now there's a statement of purpose. There hasn't been any new trash from the Chrome Cranks since 1997. The extensive notes Aaron wrote for the 2007... Read More

Still Single: Vol. 8, No. 2

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
This is my last Still Single as not a father. After this one I will be a father to a tiny baby, and will be treating this work accordingly. Look for a bunch of guests and regular columnists filling in over the summer in addition to my own reviews. -- DM Adolf Butler Holland LP ... Read More

Listed: Zarjaz + Plankton Wat

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Zarjaz It all started with a hyper-obscure track called "Shark Fuck" by a hyper-obscure band called Tronics. An odd slice of shambling off-kilter DIY tunsmithery released in 1980 on Alien Records, the record has come to define a much sought-after style of lo-fi DIY post-punk. Tronics... Read More

Listed: Duane Pitre + Javelin

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Duane Pitre Most people aren't so lucky as to do what they love for a living once; Duane Pitre's done it twice. The Louisiana native gave up skateboarding professionally for Alien Workshop to become a new music composer. In 2009, he compiled The Harmonic Series , a collection of music composed... Read More

Listed: Tindersticks + Bill Fox

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Tindersticks Tindersticks were one of the great British bands of the 1990s. Vocalist Stuart Staples and his chamber-pop cohorts spent must of the decade on top of critics' year-end lists. The band split for five years during the aughts, but reconvened for 2008's The Hungry Saw . The band's... Read More

Listed: Dean McPhee + Coathangers

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Dean McPhee Dean McPhee is a solo guitarist, but not of the sort that you often read about at Dusted. The West Yorkshire gent isn't a Fahey acolyte but he does fingerpick he's more of the slow-burning variety, electric but ancient at the same time. His album Son of The Black Peace was... Read More

Listed: DJ Food + Dent May

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
DJ Food The personnel of turntable act DJ Food has changed a bit since its first recordings in 1990. Ninja Tune founders Coldcut got it started, and it eventually came to include Patrick Carpenter of Cinematic Orchestra and Ninja Tune chief art designer Strictly Kev. Now, DJ Food is strictly... Read More

Listed: Carter Tutti + Shigeto

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti From birthing Industrial music as part of Throbbing Gristle to the Aktionist extremities of performance art, from conform to deform' dancefloor moves to hermetic electronics, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti have left an indelible mark across four decades... Read More

Listed: Comet Gain + Slug Guts

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Comet Gain David Feck and the cavalcade of folks that have comprised Comet Gain have left an indelible mark on those lucky enough to hear them. Their quintessentially British sound harkens back to the early 1990s, and Feck's ingenious, genuine lyrics continue to astound. In his review of... Read More

Listed: Delay Trees + Fungi Girls

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Delay Trees The august dream-pop of Finnish quartet Delay Trees is carved from the anxieties of early adulthood, frills-free sonic bombast, and a healthy helping of frosty Finnish winters. After playing their first gigs in late 2007, the band released a steady stream of music in Soft... Read More

Listed: Psychic Ills + Liquor Store

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PDT

by Dusted Magazine
Psychic Ills Third eye warriors Psychic Ills have been blending Eastern vibes and downtown chic since 2003, when the New York band pressed their own 7 and started releasing music through The Social Registry. In 2006, the Village Voice named the group the best psych rock act in the city... Read More

Dusted Magazine Features and Reviews

Hunx - Hairdresser Blues

From the Mouth of the Sun - Woven Tide

Woods / Amps for Christ - Woods / Amps for Christ

Cornershop - Urban Turban: The Singhles Club

V/A - We Juke Up in Here

Josephine Foster and The Victor Herrero Band - Perlas

MV + EE - Space Homestead

Man Forever - Pansophical Cataract

Merchandise - Children of Desire

The Chrome Cranks - Aint No Lies in Blood

Still Single: Vol. 8, No. 2

Listed: Zarjaz + Plankton Wat

Listed: Duane Pitre + Javelin

Listed: Tindersticks + Bill Fox

Listed: Dean McPhee + Coathangers

Listed: DJ Food + Dent May

Listed: Carter Tutti + Shigeto

Listed: Comet Gain + Slug Guts

Listed: Delay Trees + Fungi Girls

Listed: Psychic Ills + Liquor Store

The Chrome Cranks - Aint No Lies in Blood