The fifth My Dad Is Dead LP and the second that was doomed to unavailability. Another Homestead Records release from 1988. The B...

Given that David Grubbs slid from Bastro into a world of different ideas ... and played with Bitch Magnet and (basically) the backing b...

Apart from the Antlers CD containing live material from 1991 (that you can still pick up from Drag City), this was all she wrote. Reall...

Where one plays the song of the other ... 7" released on Clawfist as part of their singles club in 1991. Nothing Special / ...

In an echo of Big Black, Bastro left at the top of their game with Clark Johnson going back to law school. I didn't know it at the t...

Apparently, this was more or less the work of Mark Edwards with a couple of people making small contributions. 32 years ago I read this...

Incredibly, this is the only full album by Culpis ! The trio of Michi Nagata on guitars, Daizo Nishimura on harmonium and Takuji Naka on...

"Sorry" if you're not enjoying this latest incursion ... but I'm having a blast (first). Slurred psychedelic overdriv...

Solo album by bassist Jun Kawasaki of EXIAS-J , released on CD in 2003 by Bishop Records . EXIAS-J's guitarist Hideaki Kondo and pia...

I really like angular music that leaves you with little idea where it's going or why. Listening back to 10 X My Age made me go back...

Solo drum album by Shoji Hano , with guests Keiji Haino (who plays guitar on two songs) and Yoshinori Yanagawa of Dislocation (who play...

This is such a gorgeous thing ... It was released on Elemental in 1993 in a beautiful white marbled 10" vinyl version. I used ...

This one is confusing. Jazz/rock drummer Shoji Hano and High Rise guitar shredder Munehiro Narita have played together as a free-rock-j...

A year later, Roland was replaced by an actual drummer ... John McEntire who frankly is a proper legend. He left My Dad Is Dead to join...

I'm not expecting this to work for anybody else but ... the opening track "Aroma Of Gina Arnold" starts off as though Son...

David Grubbs (guitar) and Clark Johnson (bass) left the melodic hardcore of Squirrel Bait, programmed a drum Machine and really went fo...

Bastro should have been the biggest band on the planet. Luckily for them, they walked away from recording Goo and keeping us all waitin...

There is so much music that was lost when the (then) newly expanded American distribution networks got swamped by charlatans, A...

7" released on Amphetamine Reptile Records in 1990. Slap Back