Posts by Chad Berndtson

Often compared to Pink Floyd, The Secret Machines process a rather insane amalgam of flavors, which come out the other side to form something legitimately original. It is wholly beguiling and wildly entertaining, delivered with an ingrained gravitas that dwarfs most of the piffly indie rockers with whom the Machines share their New York scene.

Butler is single-handedly jolting the roots-rock genre back from the hollow, complacent wasteland for pretty boys, callow songwriting and fluffy lyrics it

There’s so much going on in so many of these songs that it’s tough to get a foothold

The nonpareil blues, country and bluegrass-fusion brilliance of the
Codetalkers can be traced to its legendary featured player, the
ursine, craggy-voiced guitarist and “godfather of Southern
alternative music,” Col. Bruce Hampton.