Jazz Articles

Daughters: You Won't Get What You Want

by John Bricker
December 8, 2018

You Won't Get What You Want, the fourth album from Rhode Island noise rock outfit Daughters, is one of the year's most engrossing and terrifying albums, despite a few underwhelming tracks and a disappointing finale. Vocalist Alexis Marshall, guitarist Nick Sadler, bassist Sam Walker and drummer Jon Syverson released Daughters' debut, Canada Songs, in 2003, establishing their talent for composing tiny and gritty songs with dark guitars, pounding drums and raspy screams. With 2006's Hell Songs and 2010's self-titled album, ...

Zu: Carboniferous

by Troy Collins
March 4, 2009

In the past decade, the Rome-based power trio Zu has grown into a truly fearsome beast. Kindred spirits with extreme noise merchants like the Flying Luttenbachers, Last Exit, Lightning Bolt and Painkiller, baritone saxophonist Luca T. Mai, electric bassist Massimo Pupillo and drummer Jacopo Battaglia channel riotous improvisational freedom into a tireless DIY punk rock aesthetic that champions collaboration above insular development.

Making their high profile debut on vocalist Mike Patton's Ipecac Records, Carboniferous is the trio's fifteenth ...

Kid606: Down With The Scene

by AAJ Staff
September 1, 2001

It seems like it should be hard to be a Kid and an artist. But age does not seem to be a handicap of any importance to 22-year-old Kid606. He's a sly little guy with one insistence in his music: it must never (ever) engage any of the cliches of electronic music. Meanwhile, the Kid's a big po-mo style-hopper with a mammoth range: sometimes trance-like, other times toying with ear-drum-smashing square waves. Sometimes both, and you have to be very ...