Jeff Terich

California, Richmond

Copy Editor and Reporter at Richmond Times-Dispatch

Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Treble Zine

Reading/writing: Richmond Times-Dispatch. Guitar/Vocals: @bloodponies. Thoughts about music: @treblezine

Articles

Gentle Leader XIV : Joke in the Shadow

1 week ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

Gentle Leader XIV evoke a sense of grandeur through the sparsest of means. The drama that the Ohio group harness and sculpt on “Pig Dream,” the leadoff track on their second album Joke In the Shadow, suggests something so much bigger than it is.
Virginia legalized mixed drinks in 1968, ending 52-year dry spell

1 week ago | richmond.com | Jeff Terich

Frank Runyan, an engineer from Aurora, Colorado, entered the Captain’s Grill restaurant at the Hotel John Marshall at 11 a.m. on Dec. 18, 1968, and ordered a whiskey sour. At 11:08, his server presented him with one of the first legally served cocktails in Richmond in over half a century. That whiskey cocktail — mixed by Richmond Hotels Inc. Executive Vice President Cornelius T.
Father John Misty live is anything but understated

2 weeks ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

I have no firsthand evidence that Father John Misty‘s ever done a low-key, small-scale performance. For one, I’ve never actually seen him in a venue as small as the one he’s seen playing “Chateau Lobby #4 (In C for Two Virgins)” in the first season of Master of None, nor did I ever catch him in his J. Tillman days. And by the time he released his 2012 debut Fear Fun, he was already playing Coachella and releasing videos with famous actors in them.
A look back at the pinball crackdown of the 1930s and '40s

2 weeks ago | newsadvance.com | Jeff Terich

The lure of devices offering a quick payout has captured the curiosity and coins of Virginians for over a century. And for just as long, law enforcement officials have targeted those very devices, whether cracking down on slot machines in the early 20th century or the controversial “skill games“ of the past decade. In the 1930s and ‘40s, the novelty bumping up against the ire of police was pinball.
Messa : The Spin

2 weeks ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

It’s impossible to overstate the significance of the 1980s in terms of how the decade shaped metal music. Though at no point in time prior has there been the kind of abundance in easy-to-find metal as there is now, from mainstream and indie metal groups to Bandcamp blackgazers and djent-it-yourselfers, the river from which all metal flows has its source in the ’80s.
Police tilted against pinball machines in the 1940s

2 weeks ago | richmond.com | Jeff Terich

The lure of devices offering a quick payout has captured the curiosity and coins of Virginians for over a century. And for just as long, law enforcement officials have targeted those very devices, whether cracking down on slot machines in the early 20th century or the controversial “skill games” of the past decade. In the 1930s and ‘40s, the novelty bumping up against the ire of police was pinball.
Portland duo Jenny Haniver offer a doomy take on "Unsolved Mysteries"

2 weeks ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

Portland post-punk/noise rock duo Jenny Haniver, comprising Eric Nyffeler (Bus Gas) and Randall Taylor (AMULETS), have just released a new cover of a TV theme song that should be familiar to many listeners, and sufficiently creepy in a nostalgic way. The duo have created their own take on the Unsolved Mysteries theme music, offering an even heavier permutation of what’s already a pretty unsettling melody. (The Los Angeles Times seems to agree!).
6 Great New Metal Albums That Blur Genre Lines

3 weeks ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

Metal is nothing if not malleable. Bands throughout the past four decades have found ways to fuse it with electronic music, jazz, folk, even—against better judgment perhaps—ska. But it’s not because of any passivity on the part of metal musicians, fans or the sound of the music itself. Metal is imposing, intimidating, aggressive—it doesn’t take the flavor of whatever it touches, like tofu, but rather the opposite.
Sandwell District : End Beginnings

3 weeks ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

Minimalist, industrial-tinged techno isn’t typically an abundant source of emotional nourishment. Though its spectrum of feeling ranges from fear to ecstasy, its comfort zone is at its borders, provoking primal terror sweats or inviting long nights of intoxicated bliss.
Gentle Leader XIV revel in post-punk gloom on "Woman Walking"

4 weeks ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

On April 18, Ohio post-punk trio Gentle Leader XIV will release their sophomore album Joke In the Shadow (following 2018’s Channels) via Feel It Records, and after recently releasing the first single, “Fawning,” they’re serving up another taste of the new record in the form of “Woman Walking.” On this latest track, the group—comprising Jeffrey Tucholski (Running), Matt Hallaran (Glass Traps), and Maria Jenkins (Hollows)—pair the post-punk gloom of early New Order with the icy pulse of early...