Author: James McQuiston

Posted on: January 6, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Horrorpops To Release Kiss Kiss Kill Kill In Feb of 08

Danish born, Los Angeles based pop-punk trio HorrorPops will unveil their hotly anticipated third album, Kiss Kiss Kill Kill, on February 5th courtesy of Hellcat Records. Inspired by thematic elements from vintage films and classic soundtracks, the noir-influenced release emphasizes the band’s unique ability to intermingle a variety of influences ranging from punk, rockabilly, new wave and surf.

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Doug Neumann – Does Decaydance

Doug Neumann – Does Decaydance / 2007 Decaydance / 14 Tracks / http://www.dougdoes.com / Do you remember all of those lounge singers that would go and put their own spin on popular songs? Well, Doug does that with a number of Decaydance artists, which means that “Does Decaydance” has Doug’s interpretation of Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes, Cobra Starship, Panic! at the Disco, and more. Educated at the Berklee…

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Mike Watt, New Album, Plays With Punk Legends

Mike Watt is a underground rock institution; he’s nothing short of national treasure. beloved by all who know him or have ever worked with him and multitudes that have only seen and/or heard him play with the seminal art punks minutemen, fIREHOSE, and since that redoubtable combos ending — as a solo artist frontman for many amazing ensembles and “sidemouse” for many more including Iggy & The Stooges, banyan, hellride.…

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Clown Fantasies #5

This is another of my friends’ zines, this time done by Dan from Breaking World Records. This zine is very spastic in the choice of pieces, and I personally feel that I am missing out by not having a chance to read the other issues of this magazine. Some pieces I just personally can’t get into, including the two formal pieces about Hitchcock movies. The deconstructionalist poetry is always fun…

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MMP Releases Debut by Archeron in Late January

Metal Mind Productions presents “End Of The Weakness” – Archeon’s debut album. Influenced by Jan Sebastian Bach as well as In Flames, Archeon creates songs which are heavy but, at the same time, melodic, diversified and easy to listen. The band perform with great precision and technique and their music wins them very positive feedback of the audiences from Europe and North America.

Posted on: January 5, 2008 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 0

Eazy-E – Featuring Eazy-E

Eazy-E – Featuring Eazy-E / 2007 Capitol / 16 Tracks / http://www.emicap.com / “Featuring Eazy-E” is an album that collects all of the different songs that were milestones of Eazy-E’s career, whether it be with other individuals or were songs that were hidden away for about the last fifteen years. This means that there are songs on here like “Automobile” (with N.W.A.), “Get Yo Ride On” (with Mack 10 and…

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dublab Unveils Live Sessions; Re-issues Downtempo Classic “freeways”

Internet radio/art collective expands archives and makes ambient, headphone-masterpiece available digitally. Approaching their Proton Drive goal and celebrating their 8th anniversary, pioneering internet radio station DUBLAB is plenty pumped heading into 2008 with a new, more-functional website and a shift into nonprofit status. In appreciation of their 300,000+ listeners worldwide, DUBLAB will be steadily expanding their ever-growing archive of sonic gems in the upcoming weeks premiering an arsenal of live…

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Writing Skills

There is a new web site for those individuals that are looking for writing tips. This web site, dailywritingtips.com, has a number of tips on writing. The web site will give individuals the ability to increase their writing skills to a degree that will put them at the top of their friends, family, or other social agglomeration of individuals.

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Clamor #31

Clamor #31 / $4.50 / 1:00 / 80M / http://www.clamormagazine.org /  Clamor is a zine that tries to model itself after the higher-print run zines like The Progressive. They succeed with this, and with a fairly light entry into this issue (the first actual article comes a full seven pages into the zine) individuals might wonder where’s the beef (or soy/tofu as the case may be). This feeling will soon…