After a 19 year break, the Feelies are back with Here Before an album of all new original material on Bar/None Records. The new album touches on different styles from the Feelies’ long history while adding new grooves and musical ideas to the mix. Electric and acoustic guitars melt together in archetypal Feelies fashion on songs like “Nobody Knows” and “Should be Gone. “ Elsewhere there are slabs of driving…
Eliot Popkin looks like a slightly chubbier version of Michael Ian Black. I am unsure exactly why I thought it would make sense to mention that, but what Popkin does on “Endless Ride” is play a very non-offensive brand of pop rock that is similar to the type of music that individuals like John Maher come out with every few years. The disc’s first track is “I Don’t Wanna”, and…
JAN 25 – Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter w/ Worn In Red, Mouthbreather JAN 26 – Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Art Space JAN 27 – Scranton, PA @ The Vintage Theater w/ Tigers Jaw JAN 28 – Purchase, NY @ SUNY Purchase w/ Tigers Jaw, Snowing, Midi & The Modern Dance JAN 29 – Boston, MA @ Wonderland Ballroom w/ Tigers Jaw, Stereo State JAN 31 – Toronto, ON…
There is a funkiness to “Killer Lifestyle” that cannot be stifled. Pong play the role of seventies rock act perfectly; much in the vein of Scissor Sisters or Aloha, they mix a clear production with catchy hooks to come up with a retro radio-friendly sound. The only thing that sinks Pong early is the extremely long runtime of “Killer Lifestyle”; there is not enough new material in the track’s five…
Feb 19 – Portland, OR Feb 20 – Issaquah, WA Feb 21 – Twin Falls, ID Feb 22 – Boise, ID Feb 24 – Littleton, CO Feb 25 – Farmington, NM Feb 26 – Roswell, NM Mar 3 – Las Vegas, NV Mar 4 – Sparks, NV Mar 5 – Auburn, CA Mar 6 – Red Bluff, CA Mar 10 – Columbia, MS Mar 11 – Chattanooga, TN Mar 12…
Birthdays This Month Jessie Baker turns 20 in February. When someone asks you (for some bizarre reason) “Who put the 20 in 2011?” you’ll be ready to answer, “Why, Jessie Baker, of course.” Happy Birthday, Jessie! Cryptic Message A napkin discovered last week in Chehalis, Washington contained the following cryptic message: “A lonesome Elvis loves Orleans. Wait! The Earth can’t find her waters.” Sources at Rounder Records confirmed that each…
Every 30 or 40 or 500 years, the DNA of culture itself emerges from the translucent blackness of the not-so-shallow underground. You hear a new band, and you think, “This is really something. This is like My Bloody Valentine, minus the guitars.” But then you think, “No, that’s not true. That’s not what this is like at all. Plus, there are lots of guitars here. I’m a goddamn idiot.” You…
Forget the straight-forward nature of the Devo sound, this time the Polysics are morphing rock and roll with the insane noise punk of bands like Bolt Thrower, An Albatross, and the Locust. The repetitions and slight variations on a theme that the Polysics work on for three-minute bursts are the equivalent of a schizophrenic conductor rapidly spiraling out of control. Incorporating rock-revivalist bands like the White Stripes in some of…
BORN in Hawaii but also a former resident of Arizona, Hong Kong, Singapore, Michigan, and now New York, Charlene Kaye is the daughter of two church singers, a classically trained pianist, skilled multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and performer. Sunday morning gospel, classical, jazz, showtunes, Fats Waller and Carole King were the accompaniment to her home life. The revolving door of instruments in Charlene’s young life included lessons in clarinet, saxophone, classical piano,…
Immediately, Polyphonic sounds like Kid Koala and The Avalanches. That is to say, that the band uses a heavy amount of samples and scratching to achieve their goals in the disc’s first track “Container Life #473”. The band has the ability to come forth with a quilt of different sounds and samples, in creating what is a Frankenstein’s monster that approximates humanity pretty damn well. “Moving On” is a track…
02/18 Vassar @ The Mug 02/19 Allentown @ Warehouse space 02/20 Washington DC @ Velvet Lounge 02/21 Charlottesville, VA @ Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar 02/23 Athens GA @ Farm 255 02/24 Nashville, TN @ Glenn Danzig’s House 02/27 Chicago @ Permanent Records In-store 02/27 Chicago @ The Hideout 03/1 Toronto @ Parts and Labour ! w/ Tyvek + Eternal Summers
There are hints of Ani DiFranco and Tori Amos from the beginning of “Painkiller”. However, Polly Pani goes beyond the styles of those two individuals in the creation of a chaos that has not been heard in popular music since the days of Patti Smith. There is decidedly a much newer style to Polly Panic that is not present in the music of any of the other, previously-mentioned individuals. The…
Blood & Ink Records is extremely pleased to announce we have started working on a vinyl pressing of Figure Four’s seminal hardcore album Suffering The Loss! Details are still coming together, but we plan to have the LP out in time for their planned reunion at Rain Fest 2011 in May, if not earlier. That’s right! They’ve announced plans to play Rain Fest in Seattle the last weekend of May…
Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, today announced both Pet Zombies in 3D and Face Kart: Photo Finish exclusively for Nintendo 3DS™. Pet Zombies in 3D lets players reanimate their very own zombies with a range of customizations and then care for (or torment!) their pets as they play with them in creepy 3D environments. Face Kart: Photo Finish literally puts…
Jan 24 – The Wormhole – Savannah, GA Jan 26 – Jack Rabbits – Jacksonville, FL Jan 27 – Tremont Music Hall – Charlotte, NC Jan 28 – Nightlight – Chapel Hill, NC Jan 29 – The Sentient Bean – Savannah, GA Feb 5 – Tantra Lounge – Savannah, GA Feb 6 – Lulu’s Chocolate Bar – Savannah, GA Feb 17 – Circle Bar – New Orleans, LA Feb 18…
Ethereal, open guitar lines that mix The Beatles with Gomez, The Pocket Gods feel perfectly fine meandering through “Lost”, seeming more content to be lost than to have a definite gameplan before going into the disc. The band has adequate shelter (the rich recording), even if they are in a little bit of danger due to having a small amount of provisions (the aforementioned open sound, the guitar/drum dynamic found…
In November 2010 Efterklang and Vincent Moon announced that they were working on a film together and that it would premiere in February 2011. In December we were told that Efterklang will bring An Island with them on their European tour February 21st to March 18th 2011. Today Efterklang & Vincent Moon welcome all their listeners and followers to host their own premiere screenings of An Island. As of today…
In all my years of listening to Christian music, I always thought that Plumb was a band instead of just primarily being a singer. Plumb has not lost a step in the ten years that ey has been in the contemporary Christian scene. The second track on the disc is “I Can’t Do This”, and Plumb fully moves into an Evanescence type of groove with this track. In the same…
FAIR TO MIDLAND has announced a month long headlining tour this spring. Dates will span coast to coast starting in early March reaching through the middle of April. PERIPHERY and SCALE THE SUMMIT will offer supporting duties. “We are extremely excited to try out our new songs live in front of all of our friends. It has been too long since we have headlined a tour. Expect a whole new…
The starting out of “Love…Brothel” is one of the more ambitious tracks to be found on any current disc. Incorporating an incredibly dense arrangement alongside breakdowns that incorporate national anthems, the chaos espoused by the band is simply orgasmic. Add that to the fact that the divisions between tracks are very fluid, and one will think that this is one long composition, chopped up for more rapid digestion. The aforementioned…