July 30, 2020
Album Review: Misery Signals’ Ultraviolet (August 7th, Self-Released)
When the opportunity to review Ultraviolet, the new offering from Misery Signals, floated across my virtual desk, it piqued my interest more than most. While…
Articles Written By: Ryan Bair
June 19, 2020
AltCovid: The Ballad Of 2020, or How Bair Spent His Quarantine
It has been far, far too long, Alternative Control. It brings me great joy to be contributing once again to a blog that has always…
May 9, 2018
The Bair Truth: Slyck Wagner Brown and Test of Strength Dojo
It’s my privilege at this time to sit with a tenured veteran of both the local wrestling circuit and the big time, a former WWE…
March 2, 2017
Bair Witness: Wrecking Ball Legursky is Literally Larger Than Life
The hometown hero can be one of the most inspiring figures in all of literature and reality. A competitor or combatant that we can all…
February 16, 2017
Bair Grills… Civil Lividity by Continuum
Continuum, n: “A continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, although the extremes are quite distinct.” Before reviewing…
December 1, 2016
Bair Grills… The Sleeping Gods — Thorn by Enslaved
I’ve been listening to heavy metal music since childhood. That might seem like an exaggeration, but without a doubt I was headbanging to the generic…
October 30, 2016
Bair Grills: Sorceress by Opeth
After 34 years of listening to a wide spectrum of musical genres, few bands that I’ve encountered have transcended labels and specifications to the degree…