Call It Arson – The Animal Strings Album / 2007 Kill Normal / 6 Tracks / http://www.callitarson.com / Call It Arson is a band that has been together in some form since 1994, and while the band did not start to become a serious venture until a few years ago, the tempestuous type of indie meets rock music that starts out “The Animal Strings Album†shows that the band is…
“Squelching guitars and drawn-out rhythms evoke everyone from Can to Glass Candy” Creative Loafing (Atlanta) – Bands to Watch “We were left gobsmacked by the trancelike, dubadelic vibe, equal parts postpunk and noir rock” Harp Magazine
Snatches of Pink – Love is Dead / 2007 Self / 15 Tracks / http://www.snatchesofpink.com / Snatches of Pink on their “Love is Dead†play a brand of sleaze rock that brings individuals back to the days of Spinal Tap and the New York Dolls. The lead vocals during “Rocks†(and extended to the whole of the disc) have more than a passing resemblance to those provided by Mike Ness…
The Hammer: The Best of Hank Aaron / 2007 Borders / $14.95 / 144M / 1:50 / The subtitle of this book is “From the Pages of Sports Illustratedâ€, and the tile really gives individuals a good idea what focus that the book may have. This was culled together from the material written about Hank Aaron throughout eir career by the individuals at Sports Illustrated. More so, the language used…
Clamor #36 / $5.50 / 100M / http://www.clamormagazine.org / I always feel bad when I review earlier issues of a magazine, especially those that have shut their doors recently. However, this issue is just too good to pass up. There are pieces with the Coney Island Polar Bear Club (which shows a humorous side of Clamor that does not usually come through during issues of this magazine), along with a…
Strange Mike Steel / 2005 Mouse Chew / $3 / 32M / [email protected] / Strange Mike Steel is a comic that feels as if it came out about thirty years ago. Philip is extremely influenced by this earlier style, but is able to tell a story without really going into the more fanciful story-telling styles of the stories of the era. The first page starts out with an interesting note,…
OST: Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof / 2007 Warner Bros / 16 Tracks / http://www.warnerbros.com / http://www.deathproof.net / Everyone knows that this soundtrack is for the movie that was Quentin Tarantino’s part of Grindhouse, “Death Proofâ€. The tracks here feel like they are taken from an earlier period. The first track on this score is Jack Nitzche’s “The Last Raceâ€. This track has the seventies orchestral heaviness present in droves, with…
Slug #223 / Free / 1:00 / 68M / http://www.slugmag.com / For those individuals that have not seen any of the prior reviews of Slug, this is a free zine that is handed out in the Salt Lake City (Utah) region. However, the zine gets a little more in the way of legs when individuals read the feature pieces in the issue. The one thing that seems to have changed…
Trapt is holding the world premiere of their new video “Stay Alive†on Yahoo today. The band wanted to do something a little different and utilize some of the great talent that exists on the web to create their new video. The band searched hard and found Mile Kalbach, an amazing claymation artists who was a fan of the band.
Nerve #1 / Free / 28L / :45 / Nerve House, P.O. Box 12255, Milwaukee, WI 53212 / I was really looking forward to Nerve when I looked at the first page of the zine. In it, it says “There’s no poetry in itâ€. I assumed that there was no poetry in the entire issue, but I guess the author just meant that there is no poetry in the word…
