Articles by Kevin Hainey

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  Sightings

  Arrived in Gold

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  As a key player in New York’s mushrooming psych-noise underground, it would be easy to see Sightings taking an abrupt left-turn on this, th...

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  Smoke and Smoke

  Love Suffers Long

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  It’s getting harder and harder to riff off a really killer hard rock record, but Smoke and Smoke have done it and done it well. So well, in...

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  Tower Recordings

  The Galaxies' Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field of the Tower Recordings

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  New York’s the Tower Recordings have always comprised a sort-of who’s who of the city’s psych-folk scene. As the ensemble’s individual memb...

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  The Integrity of Converge

  Boston's Best Take The Lead In A Year of Aggression

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  Jacob Bannon has "a million things to do today," but since he's a man who thoroughly enjoys his work, this is far from a complaint. And rea...

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  Air Conditioning

  Weakness

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  Coming on strong with a full-throttle assault of guitar-blasting noise, Air Conditioning lay down sheets and walls of minimal synthetic squ...

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  Masaki Batoh

  Collected Works 95-96

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  Masaki Batoh is the mythical multi-instrumentalist mysterioso behind Japanese psychedelic explorers extraordinaire Ghost, and this collecti...

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  Sir Richard Bishop

  Improvika

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  One third of the constantly evolving and always challenging Sun City Girls, Sir Richard Bishop’s Improvika is a startling album of steel-st...

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  Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet

  Images / Signs

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

  The best free jazz is timeless. By blowing the music out past all points of reference, it becomes free from any confining sounds or ideas a...