Pressing Concerns: Maneka, Camp Trash, Radioactivity, Andrés Miguel Cervantes

Welcome to the Thursday Pressing Concerns, featuring three albums coming out tomorrow, October 31st (from Camp Trash, Radioactivity, and Andrés Miguel Cervantes), plus one album that came out yesterday (Maneka). If you missed either of this week’s earlier blog posts (Monday’s featured Sam Woodring, Cusp, E.R. Visit, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Tuesday’s featured Oruã,Continue reading “Pressing Concerns: Maneka, Camp Trash, Radioactivity, Andrés Miguel Cervantes”

Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, ‘Frog Poems’

Release date: April 26thRecord label: SpartanGenre: Singer-songwriter, alt-rock, folk rock, post-punkFormats: Vinyl, digital Adhering to the rule of threes, Sam Goblin says “fuck” three times on the latest Mister Goblin album, Frog Poems. Although all these f-bombs are dropped in decidedly different ways, I do see a connecting thread between them and taking them asContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, ‘Frog Poems’”

Pressing Concerns: Cheekface, Kal Marks, Hellrazor, Tomato Flower

It’s the first Pressing Concerns of August, and it is a big one! Here, we look at new albums from Cheekface, Kal Marks, and Hellrazor, and a new EP from Tomato Flower. For the first time in what feels like forever, all four selections came out/will come out this very week (and there are aContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Cheekface, Kal Marks, Hellrazor, Tomato Flower”

Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, ‘Bunny’

Release date: April 22ndRecord label: Exploding in SoundGenre: Post-hardcore, alt-rock, indie folkFormats: Vinyl, digital This was supposed to be alt-country week on Pressing Concerns (and we’ll still get to it), but I cannot ignore Bunny any longer. The third Mister Goblin full-length record comes a little more than a year after 2021’s Four People inContinue reading “Pressing Concerns: Mister Goblin, ‘Bunny’”