Articles by Bryon Hayes

Three Day Band

Three Day Band

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

Ayal Senior and John Fahey met in Manhattan at a Vince Martin gig at the legendary CBGB. Prior to that point, Senior had been in a few diff...

Spontaneous Music Ensemble

Bare Essentials

PUBLISHED May 20, 2008

Harvested from a wealth of recordings and painstakingly restored from original cassettes, Bare Essentials features the cream of the improvi...

Birchville Cat Motel

Seventh Ruined Hex

PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2008

New Zealand must surely have a higher number of drone rockers per capita than any other country in the world. The country’s Corpus Hermetic...

Sun City Girls

Jack's Creeks

PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2008

Most of the plethora of material released by Sun City Girls, the long-time house band for the ’90s outsider weirdo set, is either long out-...

Women in Tragedy

City of Women

PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2008

While the Toronto-area noise underground hasn’t achieved a level of recognition equal to that of most global noise hotspots, small ripples...

Sunburned Hand of the Man

PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2008

Massachusetts natives Sunburned Hand of the Man have been unloading massive, psychedelic mind bombs since the late 1990s. Most of these hav...

Static North

Static North

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2008

The gentle, transfixing dronescapes that comprise Static North’s self-released debut are elegiac symphonies to the lonely, decaying corners...

Astral Social Club

Neon Pibroch

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

In the future, when cryogenic stasis becomes reality, Astral Social Club will provide the soundtrack. A purveyor of extraterrestrial post-t...