Posts by Marko Polovina

[rating=8.00] To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere isn’t another step into an unknown, instead it becomes more clear it is a more refined piece of Thrice’s discography since the days they released Alchemy Index Vol. I-IV. From then on it was indication of their future intentions – less heavy hardcore and pop tendency and […]

In one of the newer renovated venues in Detroit, the Marble Bar stood firm as Parquet Courts riled up a sold out crowd on Thursday night. Opening the festivities was Soda, whose heavy noise elements and low toned vocals reminded of Bitch Magnet and Pixies intertwined to form some sort of amalgamation of both. The […]

[rating=8.00]  There has always been an overtly punk aura around Parquet Courts’ work despite their ability to weave through the fluxing borders of such a genre. This is perhaps because they carry the same spirit of other, more renown past artists in the 80s. Much of the time they moralize in a far more subtle […]

The saying goes practice what you preach and that is exactly what Savages did below St. Andrews Tuesday night. In the crowded and dense basement haven of the Shelter, the group while sporting their appropriate all black attire, decidedly segued their own spoken-word poetry thematic in their past and present material in rapid succession. Garnering […]

[rating=7.00] RJD2’s career since his bold instrumental hip-hop and heavily sampled debut Dead Ringer and sophomore effort Since We Last Spoke has been on the downhill in terms of genuine creativity of crazed patchwork cuts. His third album, The Third Hand, indicated he had strived for too much and he had lost everything that made […]

[rating=8.00] Pushing through the weighty 4-track Ritual Spirit reminds us why Massive Attack were for the majority of their career innovators in trip-hop. The profoundly pushed the ways they concoct their sound through the years by whatever influences of the time; whether they be the Wild Bunch, the emergence of the underground electronic scene in […]

Inside the dark confines of the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 1/30/16, Protomartyr managed to fight off the sweltering conditions to perform to a full audience packed wall to wall. Opening the night were two local Michigan bands Deadbeat Beat and Rebel Kind. Deadbeat Beat, a three piece garage/pop punk band with simple […]

[rating=9.00] The rapturous cross of post-punk and noise edginess upon Savages 2013’s Silence Yourself marked one of the strongest records of that year. Leading the charge with lyrical deconstruction of gender politics, equality, and sexual fantasy, it was all bottled beautifully with slow-burners and a tightfisted approach that only ramped up the stakes. The once […]

[rating=7.00] Tortoise begin The Catastrophist auspiciously, much like their long experimental career— introducing us to synth keys that belong in the 8-bit realm medium. It eventually teeters off into normal territory, at least considered for their world. Where their earlier works are more revered because of their playfulness, ambition with an aura of sparseness, The […]

There aren’t many bands that have their lead singer as an opening act, but Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox’s side project Atlas Sound has been doing this all tour. Cox, sporting a yellow raincoat and beige cap fitting for spring on an unusually warm night at Detroit’s Majestic Theatre on December 12th,  has a reputation of being […]