Music:
Fun Fact: Carlos Herrera, sonic architect of smartypants dance outfit PepSquad, is greatly inspired by the professional lives of his sisters.
By Adam Villela Coronado
5/16/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Overdosed on retro-futurism? Pep Squad is not for you. But that’s what makes this debut so interesting.
By Adam Villela Coronado
5/16/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
LaJIT is John Isaac Torres, a 21-year-old SA resident who spent his high school years on fixed income living with with an alcoholic uncle after...
By Adam Villela Coronado
5/2/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
The press release for Yoshimoto's debut Lemmings to the Sea describes the album as a "portentous loadstone." Releases seldom get it so right...
By Adam Villela Coronado
4/4/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Power metal and prog metal have more in common than the fact that Immortal Guardian flips effortlessly between the two; they're also high-proficiency genres...
By Leonard Pierce
4/4/2012
Music:
Don't get me wrong — I'm all for "new blood," "the future," "what's hot now," "the energy of youth," and all that crap. But nobody...
Maybe it's the fact that they'
By Enrique Lopetegui
3/21/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
There's nothing brassy or flamboyant about local jazz artist Bett Butler's lovely and wistful album of standards: American Sampler is indeed a sample of...
By Thomas Jenkins
3/21/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
The Panic Division's first album since the Sleepwalker EP (2009) feels like a second Colton Holliday solo album in its continuation of a mix he's grown comfortable with...
By Enrique Lopetegui
2/22/2012
