Conducted by JMcQ How do you come up with all of the samples for the tracks on Breakin’ The Law? Do you plan out a swarm of song ideas or how do you get the creative process going? I always start with the beat. I hear a funky riff and start playing around with it on my turntables, mixing and mashing it with other songs to see what works.…
In Stores January 22 Los Angeles, CA – Shout! Factory will further its reissue campaign of progressive rock’s most prolific group with the release of Emerson Lake & Palmer’s Works Volume 1 and Works Volume. 2, both originally released in 1977. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware, consumer tech, and gaming culture since…
Blurt! #1 / 1:00 / $2 / 112S / http://www.vinylagogo.com / Vinylaprintprint, c/o Lew Huston, 135 Wapallopen Rd, Nescopeck, PA 18635 / While Lew’s style was really hard to acclimate to during the first few stories in Blurt!, by the twentieth or thirtieth page, one starts to pick up eir’s literary nuances. Blurt!, and more specifically Lew’s fumbling, bumbling attempts with girls, really is reminiscent of certain parts of Atrophy…
Metropolis Records are set to release the Expanded & Remastered version of “You’ll Rebel To Anything” on January 22nd, 2008 in North America and you can order yours now to receive an exclusive t-shirt! SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware, consumer tech, and gaming culture since 1998. With over 25 years of continuous…
Rick Springfield – Christmas With You / 2007 Gomer / 15 Tracks / http://www.rickspringfield.com / Of course, Rick Springfield is the mastermind behind the song “Jessie’s Girlâ€. This song was released a good twenty years ago and the catchiness of the song has been enough to keep Rick Springfield at least somewhat in the public eye since then. However, there has not really been a follow-up that has reached the…
Royal Underground, which Gray co-founded in conjunction with Motley Crue bassist Sixx, made its fall debut in 2006 with its menswear line to the acclaim of stylists, fashion editors and store buyers who raved about the collection’s profound rock ‘n’ roll attitude. Given the elevated success of the men’s collection, Gray and Sixx decided to take the next obvious step: clothing for women. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant,…
I have absolutely no clue where I got this zine from, but it is like the eighties series of books “Choose Your Own Adventure” in the sense that each piece leads to another piece. However, this zine has a killer twist : none of the pieces are related! Being put together by three different hucksters, the zined doesn’t suffer from any problems with the three distinct writing styles, but actually…
Presentation To Be Broadcast December 26 On CBS Special Digital-Only Edition Of The Essential Leon Fleisher With Bonus Tracks Never Before On CD Available From Masterworks On December 11 CD Released January 15, 2008 As the American pianist Leon Fleisher accepts the 2007 Kennedy Center Honor and prepares for a year of celebrations of his 80th birthday, Sony BMG Masterworks announces the release of The Essential Leon Fleisher, a commemorative…
Vashti Bunyan – Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind / 2007 Dicristina / 25 Tracks / http://www.dicristina.com / We at NeuFutur have reviewed Bunyan’s works before. Eir career in a quick nutshell: “Just Another Diamond Dayâ€, eir debut LP, was released in 1970. “Lookaftering†was intended to come out soon after “Just Another Diamond Dayâ€, but was unreleased until Bunyan finished it up and Fat Possum released it in…
The KISSology DVD Series has proven itself a smash hit success with Volume One reaching 5 Times Platinum and now Volume Two reaching an unprecedented 6 TIMES PLATINUM sales success! KISS Fans can complete the ultimate KISS set this December when VH1 Classic Records releases “KISSology: Volume Three 1992-2000” the third and final installment of the KISSology collection on DVD Tuesday, December 18, 2007. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as…
Blood #7 / :30 / 48S / $2 / Jeff, 114 Canter Blvd., Nepean, ON K2G-2M7 Canada / Absolutely no background to escape the miles and miles of typed word in this issue, and Blood only is pleasing to the eye when an individual looks at the front or back cover. Jeff’s style is well-defined, incredibly dense, and a little “holier-than-thou†at times. I mean, Jeff makes something like a…
B.l.o.o.d. #1 / Fourth-Sized / 16 Pages / Free / bloodsisters@graffiti.net / This is the second manifesto that I’ve gotten to review in the last twenty-four hours. The first was the Afunctionul manifesto, which dealt with the small band of individuals and the desire of individuals to promote the ideals of the scene, while b.L.o.O.D. discusses the need for feminism to go back underground and be openly revolutionary. The petty…
Indie rock artist Val Emmich has been keeping busy over the last few months recording the follow up to the critically acclaimed and independently released “Sunlight Searchparty” and it’s companion b-sides and out takes album “Songs, Volume 1: Woodstock.” Both albums follow the artist through a musical transformation shortly after he ended a tumultuous relationship with his former record label Epic/SonyBMG. The as-yet-untitled album will be finished mid-January and will…
American Steel – Destroy Their Future / 2007 Fat Wreck / 12 Tracks / http://www.americansteel.com / http://www.fatwreck.com / American Steel has been around for a few years and “Destroy Their Future†marks the fourth full length released by the band. Individuals may think that their Fat Wreck Chords debut is their first, but they would be mistaken; this mature (in regards to arrangements and overall sound) band comes forth first…
Take recordings that have survived earthquakes, hurricanes, and incarcerations, add some digital salvation, and out comes a pastiche of new music that was almost lost in time. Wampus Multimedia imprint Foldback Records introduces Grateful, the new CD from “singer at large” Johnny J Blair. “I thought the master recordings were gone,” Blair says. “I was told some tapes were destroyed in an earthquake, others were trashed by record companies, and…
Best Zine Ever! #3 / :30 / 24M / PO Box 12409, Portland OR 97212 / There are so few zine review zines currently out there – Zine World and Broken Pencil are the only two that easily come to mind – and the number of other zines that actually devote a few pages of their space to zine reviews are pitifully few. Thus, it is such a good thing…
The debut video clip for “It’s a Woman Thang,†from Allee Willis and Holly Palmer’s EP “The Soul of Bubbles & Cheesecake†– it’s amassed more than 300,000 views (currently at half a million) and become a flashpoint for a YouTube gender fracas. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware, consumer tech, and gaming…
The Flatliners – The Great Awake / 2007 Fat Wreck / 12 Tracks / http://www.theflatliners.com / http://www.fatwreck.com This is the debut album by Toronto’s own The Flatliners, and the band is able to come at their first release with such intensity that individuals will feel that they are much farther in their careers. The first track on “The Great Awake†is “July! August! Reno!â€, and it paints The Flatliners as…
“Keys to the Heart Meditation,” a seven-CD recording series, was released by Ptah Music, LLC, for consumers interested in the proven powers of meditation to reduce stress, improve sleep quality, and provide a more peaceful, healthy life. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware, consumer tech, and gaming culture since 1998. With over 25…
Best Zine Ever #2 / Free / :45 / PO Box 12409, Portland, OR 97212 / This is not an egotistical zinester trying to show the world that eir magazine is the hottest shit to ever be excreted from the arse of society but rather a collection of all the favorite zines that the review crew had of 20034. You may have seen some of these zine reviews in other…