Review: Dax Pierson – Live In Oakland
Don’t take your technical abilities for granted or you will lose them at the snap of the neck. It’s as fitting as it is sobering that Dax had to open …
Review: Merge – S/T
“Nobody wants to hear the record that you make for everybody else. They want to hear the record you make for you. You just have to hope that it relates …
Review: Sacred Spells
Perhaps it is the revolutionary inside of me, but the thing I will always love most is when people get together for the positive good when everyone else would rather …
Why ARTV Doesn't Quite Deserve the Dogpile
So…let’s talk about cassette culture and the man accused of infuriating the community. Recently ARTV Reviews revealed a video thinkpiece on the current resurgence of cassette tapes. His stance not …
Review: Girl Pusher – 911
If you were to give me one word to describe Girl Pusher‘s music, it would be cathartic. Cathartic in a way where the music is a raw and candid blackwashing of the …
My Guide to Afrofuturism
Featured image: Mothership: Tales From the Afrofuturism and Beyond So, with this guest list, I decided to take a different approach to it because along with the list is an …
Review – Lana Del Rabies – Shadow World
Before I give you the skinny about this album, I thought I would just offer a really helpful PSA: you don’t just listen to a Lana Del Rabies album. If …
From Root to Fruit: Andrew W.K.
Welcome to From Root to Fruit, where I take a deep ass dive into an artist’s discography for the original purpose of covering great artists BEFORE their new album comes …
Review – Andrew W.K. – You're Not Alone
Leave it to Andrew W.K. to make even being emotionally vulnerable seem like a party. For those who have known Andrew W.K. as a character, he was a supposed party …
The Three Sides of Cyanide Valentine Turns 10
If there was anything I can say about Cyanide Valentine’s very first album Let it Rot, it was this: I wasn’t ready. Cyanide Valentine came at a time where I …