Alex Maiolo

1 week ago | louderthanwar.com | Alex Maiolo

100% Wet: 100% WetCrunchy FrogAll formatsOut nowEvery generation has its complaints about what the kids are up to “these days.”Currently a good number of the olds absurdly assert there is “too much music out there.”Understandably, it can be hard to know where to start. However, for a gen that grew up genreless, immersed in an all-you-can-eat buffet of music and mash-up culture, this means just jumping into the stream and being unencumbered by the tribalism of the past.

1 month ago | louderthanwar.com | Alex Maiolo

On Thursday afternoon, on social media, I wrote something about The Alarm’s Mike Peters. I posted it and once again thought “damn, 66 is just too young to die.”Minutes later I saw the headline “Jill Sobule, Dead at 66.”It was shocking because she’d just come through my town, opening for The Fixx. I went to the show, but was unable to make it in time for her set because I was about to undertake a massive roadtrip, and had a logistical detail to tend to.

Feb 21, 2025 | louderthanwar.com | Alex Maiolo

Weathered and TornSteve Wynn’s face is smeared to the point of being unrecognizable. I look across the room at what is normally a familiar scene, but all I can clearly make out is the body of a Telecaster, and kick drum with no front head. I’m distraught, not because I’ve ingested some sort of bummer dose of bad acid, but rather because I’ve returned home to a flooded house. My collapsed ceiling is resting on the floor, and 68 records are wading in an inch of water.

Feb 4, 2025 | delicious-audio.com | Alex Maiolo

The Red Panda Context V2 is a reverb pedal that can sound both realistic and “out there.”The new version adds presets, modulation, “spring” and “grain” settings in lieu of “delay.” Plus, stereo input/output, USB MIDI, fully assignable expression pedal, 3 new modes, a delay plus reverb option in all modes, separate high and low-frequency damping controls, modulation, dynamic reverb, and infinite hold. Notably, the Grain mode is a granular reverb inspired by the Ursa Major SST-282 Space Station.

Jan 11, 2025 | louderthanwar.com | Alex Maiolo

Attention Heads:With no warning, a truly wonderful song has come into our orbit. Two fantastic guitarists, both of whom, incidentally, have had an impact on me, have collaborated. I didn’t see it coming. Tune In, Gaze On, Drop Out In my cutoff pants, white socks n’ Chuck Taylors, indie rock town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, shoegaze wasn’t huge, here, when it broke around 1990.