Articles by Chris Ayers

Cathedral

The Guessing Game

PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2010

Fans of UK's Cathedral have weathered the band's crazy idiosyncrasies for years, from the Wrestlemania yelps of 1993's The Ethereal Mirror...

Kongh

Shadows of the Shapeless

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2010

Released last year in Europe on Trust No One Recordings, Kongh's second album thankfully reaches North American shores under the aegis of t...

Buzzov*en

PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2010

Along with Eyehategod, North Carolina's Buzzov*en helped to define sludge metal in the early '90s. Marrying feedback to creepy movie sample...

Harvey Milk

PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2010

After the 1980s signing frenzy that resulted in R.E.M., the B-52's, and the Indigo Girls being added to American pop music history, Athens,...

Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2010

The indie music hotbed that was Athens, GA spawned many high-profile bands over the decades, though Harvey Milk were underappreciated and m...

Memory Driven

Relative Obscurity

PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2010

Shawnee, OK is home to two heavyweights: a world-class barbecue parlour in Van's Pig Stand and a world-class doom metal guitarist in Dennis...

Laudanum

The Coronation

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2009

Guitarist and drummer couple Judd and Becky Hawk may've known the potential of joining up with Brainoil bassist Greg "Gandalf" Wilkinson an...

Lye By Mistake

Fea Jur

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2009

On their sophomore album, St. Louis math-rock-maticians Lye by Mistake continue to operate heavy machinery at dizzying speeds. Named after...