Eclectic songwriter, and classically trained vocalist, Andrea Plamondon has been compared to artists as diverse as Lisa Gerrard, Grace Slick, and Pavarotti. The Massachusetts born siren was first noticed by visiting artist Rick Brant of the N.Y.Metropolitan Opera. Although Brant told her, that at 21, she had a voice exceptional enough to land leading roles with the Met, Andrea needed time out … Her only brother,a gifted singer and graduate…
With Led Zepplin-esque guitars and a Corrosion of Conformity/Alice in Chains feel to their first track, “Written in Stoneâ€, Fu Manchu starts off with all the balls in their court. Continuing the aural assault with Bob’s sizzling guitar solo layered off of Scott’s rhythmic lines, Fu Manchu never let off in their relentless search for rock. Infusing their music with seventy down-and-dirty rock, “Start the Machine†is full of tracks…
Akercocke has a sound that no one can deny is hard, but there seems to be some caressing of the listeners on songs like “Verdelet†that really makes the argument of this disc into a bifurcated one. While there is definitely a thrashy, Slayer-like sound to the band, there is (and may actually be more present) a Paradise Lost meets Blind Guardian like sound to Akercocke’s style on “Wordsâ€.The band…
After two years away, Editors are returning to the US for a long-awaited headlining North American tour this February in support of their highly anticipated new album In This Light And On This Evening. The album, which is out stateside via FADER Label January 19th 2010, debuted #1 on the charts the week of release in the UK this past October and charted in the Top 10 throughout the rest…
In Robert Frost’s iconic poem “The Road Not Taken,” the narrator looks back wistfully on a lifetime of choices and how the “road less traveled . . . has made all the difference.” Ana Egge has been forging her own path for over a decade now. In the tradition of her parents, who Ana describes as “motorcycle-riding hippy farmers inNorth Dakota, who created the unconventional life they wanted,” Ana’s path…