Aaron LaCrate & Debonair Samir, top purveyors of the explosive Baltimore club sound, have stepped to the plate to overhaul this classic track. Young MC’s fast-rap rhymes on “Know How Theme” are ideally suited to LaCrate & Samir’s hyperactive beats. As Lacrate says: “When I was a kid growing up in Baltimore I loved Young MC. I would make mixtapes where one side would be up-tempo club jams and the…
Gnaw Their Tongues, an enigmatic project from the Netherlands that has wowed fans of messed-up heaviosity with the phenomenal Reeked, Pained and Shuddering CD that was released on Paradigms along with a host of super-limited CDR and cassette releases, is joining the Crucial Blast roster for the CD release of the new full length An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood, which was released as a limited edition vinyl release at the…
The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find highly satisfying, a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody Panda and Khanate, but…
Ragged #1 / Free / :15 / 32M / http://www.raggedmag.com / This is a combination magazine that was created for American Rag (which seems to be a Macy’s-only clothing brand). I’ve never heard of the clothing line, but then again, I’m never in a Macy’s. Filter Mini seems to be what individuals can compare this magazine to, and where there is a lot of advertisements in both magazines, American Rag’s…
Crucial Blast will release the debut CD from Japan’s instrumental avant-death shred machine NOISM on August 26th. Noism was formed by guitarist Yoshiro Hamazaki and programmer Tomoyuki Akiyama in 1999 in Tokyo, Japan, and from the beginning the band has focused on creating intensely complex and crushing death/grind using programmed drums, brain-melting riffs and dissonant shred, which is chopped up and processed into abstract death blasts that defy physics. Early…
The World Ends With You is a game that was developed by the same crew that released Kingdom Hearts, and in much the same way, it breaks the barriers of what was previously thought possible both in terms of the Nintendo DS and of the RPG genre in general. The style of art that is present throughout the game has been tremendously influenced by the youth culture of Shibuya, which…
CBS / Paramount is slowly and surely releasing episodes from one of the longest-running shows in existence, Gunsmoke. When one adds on the years that it spent as a radio show, the length of time that Gunsmoke was a fixture of American audiences is unparalleled. This time out, the second half of the second season (which originally was aired in 1957) is covered, with the Gunsmoke cast featured in 19…
The beginning of “Magic’ starts out with a decidedly seventies Latin-tinged type of instrumentation. The funk and soulful clap present in this track, which come forth like those in a Teddy Pendergrass track, soon gives way to Thicke’s vocal stylings, which pose themselves as drawing from a rich musical tradition that plays a little bit on Stevie Wonder, more on Lionel Richie, and some Justin Timberlake to bring some younger…
Following a wave of recent reissues and re-recorded versions of older CD-R titles, Desire In Uneasiness is an album of all new material from the acclaimed Canadian dreamsludge weavers Nadja. Five colossal jams of eternally-fuzzy, ethereal dirge that are powered by the interlocking bass guitars of Leah Buckareff and Aidan Baker, who set loose a wave of monstrous grinding bass riffs amidst a fog of beautiful, swirling electronic effects. Desire…
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe – Volume Two / 2008 BCI / 286 Minutes / http://www.bcientertainment.com / This is the second of three volumes that BCI will be releasing showcasing all of the episodes of He-Man’s 2002-2003 run. This set of episodes fits in perfectly with the first volume, as purchasing both will give individuals the complete first season. Furthermore, there are a number of special features present…
Before Bruce Kulick became a fixture on the speed dial of legendary rockers like KISS (who proudly called him their lead guitarist for 12 years), Meat Loaf (Kulick was a member of Meat’s Bat Out Of Hell touring troupe), or Grand Funk Railroad (with whom he has toured the country for most of the last decade)…Before he became one of the most sought after guest musicians in the world…Before he…
Jay and the Americans are: Jay Reincke, Marty Sanders, Howie Kane and Sandy Yaguda. The group has a lot of tourdates over the next several months, including a Concerts At Sea Oldies Cruise in the Caribbean from January 17 through the 24, 2009.Â
Quixotic Potential #3 / $1 / 24 Pages / Half-Sized / Trade / cowspop7up@hotmail.com As Vera says on the first page of this zine, “this zine is run by, yes, you know it, SUBMISSIONS.†This cannot be more true, as every piece in this issue is one this is not written by Vera. Even though ey does not write in this issue, she does pick some pretty amazing pieces to…
The 40th Anniversary of Jethro Tull is upon us this year–2008. The group, which is made up of frontman/flutist/guitarist Ian Anderson, guitarist Martin Barre, drummer Doane Perry, keyboardist John O’Hara, and bassist David Goodier is in the midst of a variety of tourdates that include Europe, the UK, the Middle East and North America…..
Rev Theory – Light It Up / 2008 Interscope / 10 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/revtheory / Rev Theory has been around since 1997, and their rise to the top has been absolutely stratospheric in the last year or so. This is largely due the band’s break out single, “Hell Yeahâ€, which was featured as Wrestlemania 24’s theme song. “Favorite Disease†has the unenviable position of being stuck between the two singles…
High Noon – 2-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition / 2008 Lionsgate / 85 Minutes / http://www.lionsgate.com / High Noon is a classic film, released in 1952 and directed by Fred Zinnerman (From Here To Eternity, Benjy, Act of Violence). The film, adapted from John W. Cunningham’s short story The Tin Star, focuses on Will Kane’s life. Will Kane has been a marshal of eir city, Hadleyville, for a number of years,…
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP) / 2008 Square Enix / http://www.square-enix.com / The latest effort on the PSP by Square Enix, Crisis Core has a hell of a back story present. This means that the story that Crisis Core tells is part of the larger Final Fantasy VII mythos, specifically taking place before the actions that took place in the original Final Fantasy VII. Specifically, the plot surrounds around…
Grand Funk Railroad is original members: drummer Don Brewer and bassist Mel Schacher, plus singer Max Carl, guitarist Bruce Kulick and keyboardist Tim Cashion.
Weeds Season Three / 2008 Lionsgate / 388 Minutes / http://www.lionsgate.com / As this is a box set collecting the third season of Weeds, the story has progressed from the introductory episodes of the show. Individuals that are not familiar with the series should understand that Nancy Botwin (played by Mary-Louise Parker, of The West Wing) is a marijuana dealer, and does that to support eir family after eir husband,…
Strange Wilderness / 2008 Paramount / 84 Minutes / http:/www.paramount.com/homeentertainment / Strange Wilderness is a comedy film that was commissioned and produced by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison productions, and features a Jack Hanna-like character, Peter Gaulke (played by Steve Zahn, of Chicken Little and Employee of the Month). Peter’s show, Strange Wilderness, has been on a ratings decline for a while now after Peter’s father passed, and something drastic needs…