Hello Skye. Can you give us a quick overview of who you are and what type of music you create? Hi! I’m a singer/songwriter from New York. I’m also a student at Wesleyan University. I balance my life between school and singing. The music that I play is kind of a rock infused version of the girl singer/songwriter genre.
PJ Harvey – When Under Ether / 2007 Universal / Island / 2 Tracks / http://www.pjharvey.net / http://www.islandrecords.com / PJ Harvey has been around a long time, but for the life of me, I’m not that familiar with eir body of work. Regardless, “When Under Ether†is eir new track, and it provides a tenderness of vocals and intricacy in the backing instrumentation that sounds as if Tori Amos differentiated…
Middle Distance Runner is an indie-pop outfit from Washington, D.C. whose 5 members combine their different influences to create a multi-layered sound that seamlessly blends their disparate influences. In addition to indie-pop, their sound has elements of heavy rock and shoe-gazing layered beneath the accessible surface.
This tape is from 1989, and was re-issued on Noise/Futurist records in 1993. This is very fast clear sounding guitar riffs along with nice chunky ones.This is pretty good 80`s metal, but not a hair band. The lead singer is the typical metal screamer, but his voice can be understood. Songs on this tape sound like mid-80’s Metallica or Megadeth. The drums are somewhat hollow sounding on this recording. Overall,…
The new documentary film Tupac: Assassination – Conspiracy or Revenge? In stores Tuesday, October 23, is controversial enough with the shocking allegations that surface in the DVD, but during the Q & A that followed the pre-release media screening of the movie in Los Angeles last Thursday, the audience was stunned to hear ex Death Row bodyguard Kevin Hackie calmly state that he was an undercover FBI Agent during his…
Veil Veil Vanish – Into A New Mausoleum / 2007 Self / 6 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/veilveilvanish / Veil Veil Vanish come forth at the beginning of their “Into A New Mausoleum†with a very time tested and true sound, blending together The Cure-like vocals with an energetic, gothic-tinged backdrop. What results is a linkage of old and new, and Veil Veil Vanish can go forth and get newer fans as…
Australian band The Drones have been bringing their brand of multi-faceted blues-based psych-rock to us for years with acclaimed albums like Here Come the Lies, Wait Long by the River, and their 2006 release Gala Mill. (We think it’s a good thing that describing their sound requires that many hyphens.) In celebration of their upcoming US tour with Band of Horses, (dates below) The Drones will be the first band…
JFT-2 Song Single-Farren Music-1999 . The bassist for JFT learned from the Matt Freeman school of bass playing, which is to play fast and noticible. The songs generally have a pop-punk sound . This cd has very catchy, excellent planned hooks. The songs rangs about two and a half minutes, which is normal for punk songs but short for all other songs. If the band is properly promoted, they could…
Having recently completed a 60-show North American tour that saw them become the first-ever Asian extreme metal band to play Ozzfest, the Taiwanese six-piece ChthoniC has confirmed a third leg of its fall European tour. In between tours of England with Canada’s 3 Inches of Blood and Western Europe with Finland’s Ensiferum, the group will join black metal legends Marduk for a week-long tour of Finland and the Baltic States.…
A Step Behind – This Is What We’ve Become / 2007 Self / 5 Tracks / http://www.astepbehind.com / “Kicked Our Fate and Killed Desire†is the first track on “This Is What We’ve Becomeâ€, and it shows A Step Behind as an act that is going back to the style of emo music that was big in 2003 and 2004. The vocal qualities present during this opening track are the…
Jive Records recording artist, The Pack, who created one of the most original and infectious songs of last year with “Vans,” a song that Rolling Stone selected top 5 in their “100 Best Songs of 2006†round-up , are set to take it one step further with their debut full length album BASED BOYS. Always the trendsetters, The Pack defy classification by creating the genre that they call “based music”.…
This was released in 1996, on Lobster Records. The lead singer has a very young sounding snotty voice and the guitarist and the drummer sound very talented. The thing that distinguishes Joystick from all of the other bands, is that their songs poke fun at various things (A grand band makes fun of the punk scene). The lead of Joystick can also sing really fast, and he sounds like Greg…
NBA ‘08 (PSP) / 2007 Sony / http://www.us.playstation.com/NBA07 / http://www.playstation.com / Obviously, it would not be fair to directly compare the PSP version of NBA ’08 with the version for the PS3. However, what the PSP version may lack in graphics or rendering is easily made up for with a number of interesting mini games, such as Fast Break, Alley-Oop and Block-a-Shoot. There is a “conquest mode” present during this…
Sherwood will be supporting Hellogoodbye, Say Anything and Go Audio (Epic UK) on a string of UK dates starting 11/27 in Cardiff. Tue 11/27 Cardiff, UKUni Great Hall Wed 11/28 Exeter, UKLemon Grove Thu 11/29 Portsmouth, UKPyramids Centre Fri 11/30 Cambridge, UKCorn Exchange Sat 12/1 OFF Sun 12/2 Sheffield, UKLeadmill Mon 12/3 Newcastle, UKAcademy Tue 12/4 Glasgow, Scotland Wed 12/5 Leeds, UKCockpit Thu 12/6 OFF Fri 12/7 Brixton, UKAcademy Sat…
Track Listing 1)Runaway Assholes 2)Rodeo Blood Monkeys 3)Definite Problem Upstate 4)A Night of Shirt 5)Pants Dance This band is extremely cool.I saw them live at a local concert along with mr.tORNaDo heAd and even talked to a few members of the band.Their music is funky and good to rock dance to and even moshable (hehehehe….thats how i got this tape). All and all i give this tape about an 7…
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to present Abstract Rhythms: Paul Klee and Devendra Banhart ,on view through February 24, 2008. The exhibition explores the relationship between music and visual art, pairing Klee’s works on paper with those by the young contemporary artist Banhart.
NBA ’08 (PS3) / 2007 Sony / http://www.us.playstation.com/NBA07 / http://www.playstation.com / I remember when NBA Jam was the big basketball game. Obviously that has been a few years back, but looking at that game for the arcade and Sega Genesis console and looking at NBA ’08 is selling two related games, but with countless evolutionary steps taken between the two. Let’s see what all NBA ’08 has to offer in…
Brooklyn-based hip-hop duo Junk Science’s second album, Gran’dad’s Nerve Tonic, hits stores today! Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut album, Feeding Einstein, the guys have taken it up a notch on the new album with the help of fellow Nuclear Family collective members Cool Calm Pete, Iller Than Theirs, and Loer Velocity as well as a bonus remix by Daedelus.
3 song EP, 1999, self released. A 3 piece somewhat local band with an indy rock sound in the vein of 3rd eye blind and the goo goo dolls. Light riffs with nice sounding lyrics and a truly polished sound. They sound better live , with much more bass and cooler songs. In their live set they can even sound like an alt metal band. This tape is definitely not…
“[Make It Blur] is the kind of magical set that wills you to play it time and time again before you come close to exhausting all its possibilities. Fabulous.” – All Music Guide “Between the production polish and the promise of a departure into more seasoned rock terrotory, June’s sophomore effort seems awfully safe on paper. But thanks to its airtight execution, Make It Blur consistently counts for more then…