Bon Iver’s “For Emma, Forever Ago” is being heralded as a masterpiece of a debut and an early contender for King of the Hill in 2008. And it hasn’t even been released. Well, mark your calendars, Jagjaguwar has an official release date for the album: February 19th, 2008. The icy artwork reflects the cold winter months Bon Iver spent recording the album in rural Wisconsin.
John Coltrane – Interplay / 2007 Prestige / 34 Tracks / http://www.concordmusicgroup.com / This 5 CD set covers a 3 year period in John Coltrane’s career, when ey played with the Prestige Group; these fifty-year old recordings are given a 24-bit remastering from the original tapes. This remastering allows the recordings, feature also feature Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Cobb, Paul Chambers, and Red Garland, to shine in a way that they…
Hopeless/Sub City Records has chosen non-profit organization Do Something as the official charity for their 2008 Take Action Tour. Sharing a common mission to help young people make a positive difference in the world, Take Action and Do Something are set to kick off the 7th annual tour in February of 2008.
Cornelia Cartoonz #3 / $1 / 20 Pages / half sized / Kel Crum, 32 W. Goodman Dr. Apt 23, Fairborn, OH 45324/ kmartin1001@yahoo.com One of the faster reads of zines I’ve had the experience to pick up from the free table at UPC/AMC, Cornelia Cartoonz reads (at times) like a mixture of the Boondocks and Doonsbury, and at other times like Dilbert mounting Cathy. Yes, folks, Cornelia Cartoonz is…
Newly Expanded Deluxe Edition of Multi-Platinum Grammy-Winning Album With New & Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks Including Remixes By Akon, will.i.am & Kanye West + Bonus DVD Featuring Digitally Restored Short Films & Michael Jackson’s Historic Breakout Performance From “Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever” Television Broadcast
D.O.A. – The Black Spot / 2007 Sudden Death / 16 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/doapunk / http://www.suddendeath.com / While there are a number of fans of the music that D.O.A. has put out for the last twenty years, few individuals are familiar with the band’s work on “The Black Spotâ€. Originally released in 1995, this album marks a tempestuous time in D.O.A.’s life. This was due to the fact that this…
Never ones to dwell on the past, Boston natives Bury Your Dead are forging ahead to the future with new vocalist Myke Terry (formerly of Cassius) in tow. The band has returned to Florida’s Audiohammer Studios, the exact studio where their previous release Beauty and the Breakdown was recorded. Bury Your Dead have also brought back producer Jason Suecof (Trivium, God Forbid), continuing with the theme of tradition. “Bury Your…
By the Goddess, I don’t know why it took me so long to read this magazine. I’ve had it since August of 2002 (it’s almost December), and while I have tried to read the zine before, the subject matter was just so personal that I couldn’t bring myself to read it. I am very glad that I actually was able to get through it tonight, as this issue deals with…
Twenty-three years after graduating from MI”s Guitar Institute of Technology, veteran rock and world music guitarist Jeff Young is returning to his alma mater as an instructor beginning in January, 2008.
Insane Clown Posse – Jugganauts / 2007 Island / 18 Tracks / http://www.insaneclownposse.com / http://www.islandrecords.com / The Insane Clown Posse split off from Island Records a few years back to create their own record label. However, Island maintains the rights to all of the ICP’s albums up to a certain point, so it’s not that surprising to see a greatest hits album not come out from Psychopathic Records. In regards…
The first radio-single of the album “Let me in” is accompanied by a superb videoclip, available on April, 10th Let Me In is the first release of the new digital only label Digital Kollektiv founded by Sonar Kollektiv. The BENNY SINGS album was co-produced by BART SUÈR. JAZZANOVA already collaborated with him during the North Sea Jazz Festival on the Tribute to Charles Stepney BENNY SINGS has been remixed, among…
Complete Control #11 / $2 / 7 by 8.5 / 32 Pages / PO Box 5021, Richmond, VA 23220 / Usually, I tend to zone out when I am reading recollections or tour diaries, but Greg’s extended narrative is written in such a way to hold my interest for the entirety of the 32 pages. While Operation: Cliff Clavin was long defunct by the time I had started getting into…
This year Sonar Kollektiv is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a double CD compilation! mixed and compiled by the label founders JAZZANOVA! The double CD is available for the price of only one!!! CD1 is packed full of 20 musical pearls while CD2 is an exclusive DJ mix by JAZZANOVA, showing the club orientated aspects. Compilation features: FORSS, MICATONE, JOE DUKIE, OUTLINES, DIMLITE, THIEF, JAZZANOVA as well as BENNY SINGS,…
Paul McCartney – The McCartney Years / 2007 Rhino / 180 Minutes / http://www.paulmccartney.com / http://www.rhino.com / For anyone that wondered exactly what all Paul McCartney did after leaving The Beatles need to pick up this DVD set, released by Rhino. This 3 DVD set collects an exhaustive amount of music videos, live performances, and even interviews with McCartney eirself to piece together the nearly forty year period since ey…
Alpha were the first signings to Massive Attack’s label Melankolic back in 1997. They released their critically acclaimed debut album ‘Come From Heaven’, followed by ‘The Impossible Thrill’. Alpha have been constantly busy in the past 10 years having released three instrumental albums ‘Lost In the garden of clouds part 1 and 2, Made In Space, ‘Stargazing’ and last year ‘Without Some Help’.
Committed to the Custody of the Attorney General (Seth M. Ferranti, 18205-083 Box 420 B-Left , Fairton, NJ 08320) This is probably the second zine that I’ve ever had the chance to review by a prisoner, and this one is much different in tone and style than the other one I reviewed. Completely deconstructing the inane laws of the judicial society in poetry, in pieces of art, and other prose,…
Add to this dark, trippy atmospherics and the result is a coherent body of quality electronic music. Moving from the understated minimal house of ‘Black Rain’ and subtle menace of ‘Running Systems’, the album slips into the uplifting, dream-like state of ‘A Thousand Nights’ and ‘Painkiller’, the latter reminiscent of deep, mid-nineties prog-house/electronica.
Dodgy #1 I just want to say that the editor of this magazine is a very cool guy, as he set me along a mix CD and placed the copy of his zine in this awesome homemade envelope. He seems very knowledgeable about zines even though this is his first zine, even going as far as picking out an odd-sized paper for his zine and hand-binding each issue! Wow! I…
NeuFutur Magazine and On Target Media Group have entered into a contest for the new Ringo Starr album, “Liverpool 8”. Two lucky winners will win a copy of “Liverpool 8”, and all you need to do to win is read on (and sign up) All that individuals need to do to enter themselves into this contest is to either post on this thread, email editor@neufutur.com , or contact NeuFutur on…
Ophir “Kutiman” Kutiel is a 25 year old musician, composer and producer from Tel Aviv. He plays drums, keyboards, guitar and bass. His music draws influences from afro beat, psychedelic rock, funk and reggae but in different way than most disciples of Fela and Mr. Brown have done before him. Clever heads may even spot some Special AKA, Chocolate Watchband or the pre-historic drum-machine Sly Stone introduced on “There’s A…