Alternative music, cult films, and pop culture explored through a Gen X lens — with reviews, interviews, and a deep-dive podcast.
The Church conjure psychedelic hymns on ambitious and intricate new album ‘Lacuna’. I’ve probably covered The Church more than any other band on this site, and for good reason. Their intoxicating blend of psychedelia, shimmering guitar soundscapes and alternative rock cast a spell on me in high school, and I’ve never looked back. Best known […]
The Church honor their 45th anniversary with The Singles Tour, a career-spanning set at Austin’s Long Center. Aussie psychedelic act The Church are best known for their dreamy single “Under the Milky Way”. But to die-hard fans, they’re equally revered for deep cuts from their entire catalogue. This makes the group’s current Singles Tour (1980-2025) […]
The 15 Best Rock Albums of 2024: the best in alternative, metal and more from a year that sorely needed musical solace. 2024. What a year, huh? I’m personally worn out from it and dreading 2025, but I take my pleasures where I can find them, and music remains a source of solace for me […]
The Church ‘Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars’ Review: companion piece expands on Aussie rockers 2023 concept album ‘The Hypnogogue’. Last year Aussie alternative psych rockers The Church released their 26th studio album The Hypnogogue. It was a hallmark for the band in two respects: it was their first album featuring only one original member […]
10 Best Alternative Rock and Metal Albums of 2023: these are the albums that got us through a crazy year. It’s almost time to say goodbye to 2023. And that means it’s time for SLIS to do our annual Best-of Year list. 2023 was not a massive year for rock. But what it lacked in […]
SLIS Podcast Episode 44: The Church’s Steve Kilbey Talks New Album ‘The Hypnogogue’: frontman gives an inside scoop on new album featuring revamped lineup. The Church have been brewing up their unique blend of psychedelia, post-punk, alternative and prog-rock ever since they formed in 1980. Over four decades, various lineup changes and 26 studio albums, […]
The Church ‘The Hypnogogue’ Review: Australian alternative legends emerge with revamped lineup on triumphant new concept album. ‘The Hypnogogue’ is the most prog rock thing we have ever done and also we’ve never had a concept album before. So sayeth Steve Kilbey, the vocalist/bassist/founder of The Church regarding their new album The Hypnogogue, (February 24, […]
35 Albums Turning 30 in 2022: The Best Albums of 1992: a list of the best alternative, metal, hip-hop, indie and experimental releases from 1992. Last year I boldly declared that 1991 was the best musical year of the 90’s. And I still stand by that. But by damn, 1992 is a very close second. Whereas […]
13 Best Rock and Metal Albums Of 2021: great music from a not-so-great year. I feel like every time I do yearly-best-of’s, I have to comment about how great music made a shitty year more bearable. Welp, 2021 was certainly another year that was pretty fucking terrible, when we desperately needed as many sonic escape […]
Steve Kilbey And The Winged Heels ‘The Hall of Counterfeits’ Review: The Church frontman indulges all his various musical obsessions on vast and varied double-album. In 1990 I released an album called Remindlessness in which I attempted to take in everything I had ever been fascinated by and reconcile the whole damn lot with a weird […]
