Chicago band Ably House aren’t afraid of the dark. They take their name from a Galena, Illinois haunted house, the site of numerous suspicious deaths ending in the grisly 1877 murder of Swiss farmer Jacob Ably at the hands of his own son. Local legend has it that the stairs where Ably slowly met his bloody end from his bullet wounds had to be painted red to hide their sinister stains. His son — who some believe was avenging his mother’s death, officially labeled a suicide – received a life sentence, and when he died in his cell nine years later, his obituary called it “the last chapter of a…
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Debut Sonically Charged Album Tombstone Eyes – Land In The Sky Review
Tombstone Eyes based in Chicago, Illinois, USA performs heavy psychedelic blues with classic heavy metal chugging riffs and ripping guitar solos. The music combines classic 1970’s heavy metal with space rock, and drudgey stoner rock. The band excels in the extended instrumental passages where the sound grows into grinding peaks. The album also peels back the layers of instrumentation for spacey sonic atmospheres. Tombstone Eyes released their first informal demos in 2018 and Eyes Land In The Sky is their first full length album. Land In The Sky has sci-fi themes especially on the 16 minute track “Solar Barge” which pushes the listener through the Earth’s ozone into the cosmos.…
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POW’s Portland “Tea” Party With The Evening Attraction
POW Editor Sheena Salazar sat down with Chicago’s The Evening Attraction September 1st in Portland, OR to discuss their tour, their upcoming new singles, and just how the hell exactly to describe their unique sound. Watch the interview below, and watch their full set from The Waypost below that.
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Crown Larks-“Population”
Listening to any free jazz artist in public will make you get looks. It’s sometimes called a bastardized form of ‘real jazz’. Well, what’s jazz? It doesn’t ever sound the same. It’s an ever changing expression. It was started in clubs. Perfected by geniuses disguised as junkies. It brought them a moment of peace from a world of flowing colors erupting from tragedy. The difference between jazz and free jazz is simply an extension to what was started all those years ago. It deserves proper respect and attention to every little detail layered and layered to something that isn’t striving for perfection. But for something your brain can’t makes sense…
