Ascetic Records – Lollipop Magazine

Gravity Propulsion System – Days Like Razors – Review

November 1, 2008

Sometimes tightly-wound and abrasive, sometimes loose and breathing and itchy, this band is never dull.

Riddle of Steel – 1985 – Review

July 1, 2008

Classic rock licks, cowbell aplenty, and hip-swaggering four-on-the-floor beats. There’s no denying that 1985 is more “rock” than “math rock.”

Traindodge – Wolves – Review

November 3, 2006

Zeppelin-meets-Crimson titans have been at the game for quite a while. No surprise that Wolves is the band’s most streamlined, cohesive, and addictive record.

Roma 79 – The Great Dying – Review

November 3, 2006

Shoegazey, mathy, intelligent rock that’s unstained by these modern times’ dirty emo/pseudo-R&B hands, which means “totally fucking rulin’.”

Gravity Propulsion System – Get Destroy – Review

October 13, 2006

The compositional/functional/found-noise/skronking guitar hum and hollering/bewildered singing are intact. Everything’s sharper, tenser, and wound tighter.

Retisonic – Levittown EP – Review

August 11, 2006

Concise slices of punk energy, top-notch musicianship, intelligent twists and turns, and pop catchiness done by people who enjoy nutrition with their glucose.

Riddle of Steel – Got This Feelin’ – Interview

February 3, 2006

An interview with Jimmy Vavak (bass/vocals), Andrew Elstner (guitar/vocals), and Rob Smith (drums)

Gravity Propulsion System – Poison Rays of Sound – Review

March 29, 2004

Ikara Colt could gig with’m just fine, as could Poem Rocket, or some of those angular units wandering around in the yard.

Riddle of Steel – Python – Review

November 5, 2003

Riddle of Steel rode on shoulders of Shiner, Jawbox, and Shudder To Think, but the moody melodicism and instrumental weavings of Python don’t need to hitchhike.

The Socomtonar Collection – Volume 1 – Review

July 23, 2003

A homerun collection featuring four of the Midwest’s unheard of (but surely future reference points) heavy-hitters: DMS, Riddle Of Steel, Ring, Cicada, and Houston.