Articles by Bryon Hayes
Bill Orcutt & Jacob Felix Heule
Colonial Donuts
PUBLISHED Jan 6, 2016
Since re-emerging late last decade from an extended post-Harry Pussy hibernation, angular blues guitar firebrand Bill Orcutt has been quite...
Drax
The 3rd Decade EP
PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2015
A year ago, Perc Trax dropped a set of remixes of "Phosphene," an acid techno burner from the Drax Three EP. That slice of wax originally d...
Volcano the Bear
Commencing
PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2015
Being England's best-kept secret for 20 years has been the only constant in the career of Leicester quartet Volcano the Bear. Daniel Padden...
Thomas Brinkmann
What You Hear (Is What You Hear)
PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2015
Staring at a surface from afar brings about the illusion of smoothness, but take a few steps closer and contours arise; peer even nearer, a...
Manas
Manas
PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2015
Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji has been searching for new ways of squeezing abstract tones from his instrument since first laying ears on...
J.D. Emmanuel
Wizards
PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2015
Original copies of this early '80s classic of private press, new age release are nearly impossible to find; if a copy appears these days, i...
Rabit
Communion
PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2015
Eric Burton produces a dark, genre-transcending sort of electronic music, yet has recently been lumped in with the new wave of grime, along...
Certain Creatures
Vipassana
PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2015
Brooklyn resident Oliver Chapoy has roots in the Florida hardcore/metal scene, having at one time been a member of the long-running group S...