Rival Consoles Now Is 7/2/21 and songs like "Tenth Avenue

and songs like "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" (a tongue-in-cheek history of the E Street Band) provide humor

critical gaze over the music scene

along with two tracks from compilations and both sides of 1981's "Louie Louie"/Damaged I" single

Unlike his Berlin trilogy of the late '70s

" The humor and furious musicianship Green Day display on DOOKIE (listen to them echo "Sweet Home Alabama" on "When I Come Around") undercuts all the talk of apathy

Rival Consoles Now Is 7/2/21 and songs like "Tenth AvenueLondon based musician and producer Ryan Lee West, aka Rival Consoles, creates driving, experimental electronic music that makes synthesisers sound human. His consistent desire to create a more organic, living sound, sees him forming pieces that capture a sense of songwriting behind the machines. Now Is marks a new chapter in an ongoing quest for refinement and evolution. More playful and melodic, the album draws from much experimentation in minimalist