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Thor & Friends Reviewed by: Jane Roser Maybe I’m too cynical or just not very avant-garde, but I have to admit I just don’t get this album. Inaugurated in 2015 by percussionist Thor Harris after several years touring with avant-rock band Swans, Thor & Friends Read More

by Dan Williams The line stretched the length of Union Transfer and almost around the block waiting for the doors to open at 8:00. Considering there was an opening act, this was a fairly large crowd anxious for the show to begin.  It was not a raucous crowd, but rather a reserved Read More

by Ari Roth Swans at Union Transfer reminded me why I love live music so much. Opener Jenny Hval, who released one of my favorite albums of last year, Innocence is Kinky, expanded her uncomfortably intimate, almost confrontationally, bare-bones songs into considerably fuller Read More