An Australian Bike Dream Zine #1 / Free / Half-Sized / 44 Pages / confused_chickadee@hotmail.com / Whenever I go down to Boxcar Books, I seem to pick up more than my fair share of biking and bike-related ‘zines. Not a bad thing, but an interesting phenomenon nonetheless. As the title may indicate, An Australian Bike Dream Zine is about one individual’s trek to and through a great amount of Australia.…
Joe Keithley and his Band of Rebels are now #5 on the National Earshot Loud Radio Chart! Band of Rebels is Keithley’s solo album, released this past summer that features many of Vancouver’s best musicians. Many of them will be performing at the CD release party, which is also Sudden Death Record’s Christmas party, DVD live recording event and a benefit for Cannabis Canada. The event will also include guest…
Bones Season Two / 2007 Fox / http://www.fox.com/bones / http://www.fox.com For individuals that do not know what Bones is about, it features David Boreanaz (Buffy, Angel) as a FBI agent that is partnered with Emily Deschanel’s character (Cold Mountain and Glory Road). The “buddy comedy†and “gross out crime†genres are married her in this show, and this DVD set collects all 21 episodes in this season, among ample extras.…
„Gimme A Bassline!“, their funky and infectious first single with an incredible dancefloor action effect, scored a # 5 position in the German Club Charts (DCC) while hitting top DJ playlist around the globe. Ursula 1000 put this track on his “Ursuladelic†compilation, en vogue producers Fort Knox Five from Washington D.C. offered their remix services and PUMA featured the song on their MTV commercial. In no time their hit…
Anarchism and Violence: Selections From Anarchist Writings, 1896-1925 / :30 / Free / ICC, PO Box 712191, Los Angeles, CA 90071 / I really hate philosophy. However, I like the free reproduction of ideas, and especially from anarchist scholars that I’ve never previously even heard of (except from other zinesters copping Malatesta’s name. To be honest, the writing style of Malatesta is much more accessible than most philosophers, and there…
Back in 1993 Munich’s Into Somethin’ crew started a clubnight entitled ‘Maiden Voyage’. The idea behind it was simple: while the successful weekly Into Somethin’ sessions set up by Michael Reinboth, Florian Keller and Theo Thoennessen in 1989 kept on providing a take on the current state of dancemusic from a Jazz DJ’s point of view the guys wanted to establish another night dedicated strictly to the classics. Jazz, Soul,…
OST: Feel The Noise / 2007 Sony / 10 Tracks / http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/feelthenoise/index.html / Feel The Noise was the movie that featured Omarion and discusses the evolution of a young male that has to flee from gang violence to Puerto Rico, becoming taken up in the musical culture of Reggaeton. The character eventually strives to be a Reggaeton star, leading up to their performance at New York’s Puerto Rican Day Parade.…
10 great songs with sparse arrangements, touching genres like New Orleans Dixie and Jazz. For fans of Feist, Pascal Parisot, Benjamin Biolay, Camille Debut album of Fredda who already stirred waves with her contributions to the successful Le Pop Musik compilations “Le Pop En Duo†and “Le Pop 3â€. Produced by nouvelle chanson star Pascal Parisot. who happens to be her husband. 10 great songs with sparse arrangements, touching genres…
A lovable 20 year old got rejected from acting school, fell down the stairs, broke her foot and wrote an album. That album, ‘Made of Bricks’, found its way into our ears in much the same way, minus the acting school and breaking of bones. That is to say, we heard Kate Nash on a chance trip to Latitude festival in Suffolk this Summer and haven’t been able to get…
American Dream: Free Enterprise / :10 / 28M / http://www.prisonerlife.com / Seth M. Ferranti, 18205-083 Box 420 B-left, FCI Fairton NJ 08640 / This is an very interesting way of telling a story. Where one starts off the piece as Seth sets up eir own story, the action jumps back and forth between what had happened in the events leading up to eir arrest and the real life of Seth’s…
Dynamic, Austin, TX based quartet THE SWORD and respected Swedish rock band WITCHCRAFT have teamed up to issue a very special, limited edition 12″ LP / EP. Simply titled THE SWORD / WITCHCRAFT Split 12″, the vinyl-only release is available via diverse NYC label Kemado Records and is in stores now. Inarguably two of the most exciting new bands to have formed in the last decade, THE SWORD and WITCHCRAFT…
I’m damned pleased to be able to announced the release of a special YGR website-only 5 song EP by the fantastic group of singers/players called Fire On Fire. They used to be the art-punk-prog-chaos collective Cerberus Shoal, but they ditched their electric instruments, went into hiding for a while, and now play all acoustic-stand up bass, mandolin, banjo, harmonium, accordion, acoustic guitar, dobro etc etc, and they all sing and…
Nuremburg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes / 2007 Lionsgate / 210 Minutes / For many individuals, World War II is an interesting subject. I personally prefer later US history, but still appreciate what got the United States to the later history. “Nuremburg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes†provides a lot of that information, and provides it in a way that is much more in depth and focused than any History…
Keith Sweat, the celebrated master of the slow jam, unwraps his first-ever holiday music collection, proving there’s no one better qualified to deliver a Yuletide disc titled A Christmas Of Love. The R&B and soul superstar’s new album of newly recorded contemporary Christmas songs is available now. The disc was released on November 20.
Altar #7 / $4 / 1:00 / 68M / http://www.altarmagazine.com / Altar Magazine is ending with this issue. The magazine is joining forces with Clamor, which will be a great thing considering that Altar and Clamor both had issues with previous issues that the other magazine could conceivably work well with. This is one of the most solid endings that a magazine can have. The writing in this issue is…
NeuFutur and Cornerstone Promotion are providing one lucky winner with the one copy of “Version” and one runner up will receive a “Stop Me” single? This is one of the most simple contests that we have ran at NeuFutur – just post a response to this story or email editor@neufutur.com and you will be entered. Contest ends on Friday, so be quick! Information about Mark Ronson can be found here:
The Corporate Punishment Podcast has posted an interview with Static-X’s Wayne Static at the following location http://www.corporatepunishment.libsyn.com/ During the interview, Wayne discusses the writing process of the group’s new album, Cannibal, his vegetarian lifestyle and the state of the recording industry.
Doris #23 / $1.50 / 1:00 / 36M / Cindy, POB 1734, Asheville, NC 28802 / http://www.microcosmpublishing.com / This is the first issue of Doris that I’ve ever been able to read. I’ve heard so many things about the zine, and it ranked really high when I put together the zine ranking system a fewyears back. I can understand why so many individuals liked it. Doris is a blend of…
Dog in Space #7 / Half-Sized / 40 Pages / Dog in Space c/o Jess, 4007 Dorcas Drive, Nashville, TN 37215 / lovelikeadrug@hotmail.com / http://www.livejournal.com/~lulabydisection/ Another fun issue by Jess, but for some reason ey created #7 before eir created #6. This time, we are given a lot of information about the impending move to college (MTSU) and eir’s mother’s reaction to that. We are also given a list of…
Never Enough’s Trevor Friedrich (ex-Eighteen Visions) has been featured as the drummer in the new SIXX: A.M. video for “Accidents Can Happen”. SIXX: A.M. is the new project from MÖTLEY CRÃœE bassist Nikki Sixx and fellow musicians James Michael and D.J. Ashba. Never Enough frontman, Norman Matthews, commented, “I’m childhood friends with Bones Elias from JULIEN -K (ex-Orgy), I hooked him up with Trevor to hangout. Bones was in the…