King Elementary start off “Kudzu” with “For the Birds”, a track that shows a tremendous amount of the band’s influence coming from the psychedelic sixties (the guitar solo present on the track sound a hell of a lot like “Break On Through”). Other tracks, like “Thief of Hearts” maintains this earlier influence but really allows Morgan’s vocals to look at bands like the Von Bondies and The Strokes for form…
Classically-trained composer Son Lux (Ryan Lott) has kept busy in the wake of praise for his last album “At War With Walls & Mazes”. He just released his Weapons EP on anticon. and is working on his sophomore follow-up. Lott also recently spent a good deal of time working on the upcoming These New Puritans album arranging brass and woodwinds. In the spirit of collaboration, Son Lux has been commissioned…
Jeremy Denk’s summer reaches its acme in mid-August, when he appears at three of the season’s most prestigious U.S. festivals – Bard (Aug 13-15), Mostly Mozart (Aug 17-19), and Tanglewood (Aug 21) – to give six prominent performances in little over a week. In repertoire ranging from solo and chamber to orchestral, and from composers of the First Viennese School to those of the Second, the versatile pianist collaborates with…
It is very rare to get a chance to hear a musician that has been working on eir skills for 65 years; the resulting music on “Saw Mill Man” has a patience inherent in it that really shows this maturity. I would say that ey sounds like Johnny Cash, even though King is six years eir senior. There is little excess to this disc; every track essentially consists of King’s…
Featuring music from PEASANT, MIGHTY TIGER & MONSTER + live art by GREGORY SIFF “Paper Garden Records authentically releases music worthy of success based on its artistic merits, a quality rarely found in today’s music industry.” – Nate Welker, Saddle-Creek Records “Every once in a while, a label comes along that’s so good it’s untouchable in its musical discretion. Paper Garden Records is that label. With artists like Peasant, SAADI,…
It is very rare to see that a band has been together for such a long time. Barring the years that they were trying to get back together, Kill Van Kull has been a band since 1983. It is thus not surprising to hear such talent and ability come from each member of the band. The one thing that individuals might have worried about, the freshness of the style of…
If you live in the western hemisphere, chances are you won’t understand a single word Regina sings, and that’s okay. The Helsinki-based three-piece band sing in their native language of Finnish, lending a surreal, otherworldy quality to their distinguished blend of electronic beats, folk and world music, wild percussion, and slightly-hazy melodies. “Puutarhatrilogia” [“Garden Trilogy”], the band’s first album to be released in the states, is a delightfully trippy and…
After two years of relentless touring Los Angeles based neo-classical death metal unit EXMORTUS is back on the war path and getting ready to head into the studio to record a follow up to their heralded debut album In Hatred’s Flame released on Heavy Artillery Records in late 2008. Since the departure of former vocalist and guitarist Balmore earlier this year, EXMORTUS have recruited new guitarist Sean Redline while lead…
Kill The Hippies are the first band to ever do a reverse chronology for their complete retrospective. Most the time, individuals have to suffer through the caterwaulings of a very green band that really had no clue before getting to the gold. On both of these discs, the newest tracks open up the disc before going back into the annals of the band’s history (Kill The Hippies started in 1993).…
6/30 @ The Triple – Richmond, VA – w/ MUTILATION RITES, PLAGUE THE SUFFERING 7/1 @ Slims – Raleigh, NC 7/2 @ 585 Wells St. – Atlanta, GA 7/3 @ The Junkyard – Gainesville, FL – w/ HOT GRAVES, MUTILATION RITES 7/4 @ The Brass Mug – Tampa, FL – w/ HOT GRAVES, FATAL 7/5 @ The Joint Collective – Sarasota, FL 7/6 @ Warehouse 8B – Jacksonville, FL –…
Out of all the up-and-coming metal bands out there at the moment, few are as hard-working/hard-touring as 2Cents. Comprised of the brother tandem Adam (lead vocals, drums) and Dave O’Rourke (guitar, vocals), and Adair Cobley (guitar) and Jason Wendell (bass), 2Cents recently completed a tour opening for Korn, and has also played alongside such renowned acts as Five Finger Death Punch, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, Rise Against, Pennywise, Static X,…
It is honestly hard to really assign Killjoy Confetti with a specific style of music. Comparison between them and other diverse and experimental bands may do better justice; the band during tracks like “Excuse The Blood” really mix Nico-era Velvet Underground with Patti, using progressive, Queens of the Stone Age-type of rock to fuel the track. The challenge that Killjoy Confetti really give their listeners during the opening two salvos…
Name any given musical style and there’s a 99% chance that Controlled Bleeding had already explored it. Some still call them an industrial group, which is nothing short from inappropriate. Sure, their music is strongly based on electronics and most of their works is pure cybernetic noise but this formation goes beyond industrial and beyond music itself in that matter. In 1992 the band surprised their fans, releasing “Penetration” for…
Killing the Dream starts out their “In Place, Apart” with a fury that has not been heard since Strike Anywhere’s “Exit English” or “Siren Song of the Counter-Culture-era” Rise Against. In fact, lead vocalist Elijah has more than a passing similarity to Rise Against’s vocalist Tim, a comparison that only gets stronger as the disc continues to spin. What does provide a major problem at the onset of “In Place,…
Most widely known for his roles on screen, Jeff Daniels has garnered critical acclaim in many films including “The Purple Rose of Cairo” and “The Squid And The Whale”. On stage, he was most recently nominated for a Tony Award in the Broadway play “God of Carnage”. Now, Jeff Daniels is gaining notoriety as a musician for his unique and spontaneous one-man show which returns to the road on August…
10 Ft. Ganja Plant brings the sound of roots, rocksteady and dub from the smokey hills and rough streets of Jamaica to the ears of their rabid fans around the globe. On “10 Deadly Shots” the mysterious reggae collective captures the vibe of classic reggae and distills it down to it’s essence – without vocals. The tracks were mastered directly to vinyl with the digital / CD parts cut from…
The distortion that is present on the first tracks of “Songs For The Christmas Party”, specifically “A Memo for All Rock Journalists”, fights with the vocals to establish the dominant force during the disc. The distortion eventually wins out, but individuals can hear what is being played pretty clearly. The style of music that Killer Squirrel plays is something that is straight forward and punk as fuck at some point;…
Tue Aug 31 Monika Herzig Farmer’s Market Bloomington, IN 5-6:30pm Sun Aug 29 Acoustic Project Biergarten at the Atheneaum Indianapolis, IN 6-8:30pm Tue Aug 17 Monika Herzig & Peter Kienle People’s Park Indiana & Kirkwood Bloomington, IN 11:30am-1pm Thu Aug 12 Monika Herzig With Heather Ramsey and Blair Clark Zoo Indianapolis, IN 5-8pm Sat Aug 7 Monika Herzig Trio Magnum Restaurant Madison, WI 8pm Fri Aug 6 Monika Herzig and…
Friction Records is pleased to announce that on August 24th, 2010, it will release Of Gold, the debut 12″ from Bars Of Gold. Featuring former Bear Vs Shark front man Marc Paffi, as well as original BvS drummer Brandon Moss and members of instrumental noise outfit Wildcatting, Bars Of Gold’s overall sound doesn’t fall far from its punk roots. Still, the Michigan five piece manages to branch out into wonderfully…
The brand of hardcore that The Killer play is influenced by both earlier hardcore and metal acts. Thus, tracks like “Where Will You Go?” are tied to the eighties metal of acts like Megadeth, with repetitious guitars driving a rhythm far into listeners’ heads. The great thing about The Killer is that the music on “Better Judged By Twelve” was recorded over two years ago, and still sounds as fresh…