The Dangerous Summer – If You Could Only Keep Me Alive / 2007 Hopeless / 7 Tracks / http://www.hopelessrecords.com / http://www.myspace.com/dangeroussummer / “I Would Stay†starts out “If You Could Only Keep Me Aliveâ€, and starts out slowly. The band kicks into gear soon after, and the Taking Back Sunday meets MxPx style of the vocals move away from their stark sound into meshing well with the instrumentation. “I Would…
GREAT NORTHERN’S PRE-TWILIGHT RECORDINGS TO SEE LIGHT OF DAY; DIGITAL PRE-RELEASE SET FOR NOVEMBER 6, ALBUM OUT FEBRUARY 2008 LOS ANGELES, October 24, 2007 – Before Great Northern honed the lush lullabies that made up its arresting debut LP, “Trading Twilight for Daylight” (Eenie Meenie Records), the L.A.-based foursome constructed a set of songs that laid the early groundwork for the band’s cinematic pop. Previously only available at live shows,…
Brooklyn, NY is known for many things, but great Modern Rock is probably not one of them. Now the BK’s best kept secret, Underwhelmed, are looking to change that, breaking out with a 3 Month tour in support of their recently released EP, The War Between Myself and Me, available at shows and via mail-order and iTunes, with a full-length to follow in early 2008 on Corporate Punishment Records/Koch.
This is great NYC old style punk, plain and simple. Amazingly good songs, and they are not straight edgers. That is good. A guy has a mohawk. They thank Joey Ramone. This is out on NG records, which is a pretty cool as fuck label. This amazing work of an album gets a 9 out of 10. Good Work guys, just stay together. The guys in the band have cool…
This tape is 36 minutes long, and it is from Jevan Records, which probably is a defunct label which was out of Parma Heights Ohio. This is electronic gothic music, which mixes depressed Depeche Mode with some Cure, and it also has Female and Male vocals. Lestat uses old clips between songs, which is a good, albeit overused median between songs. These guys have slow Cure like guitars, with samplers…
The lead singer on this tape screams so much that it sounds like he is being anally rape and making words about it. The guitar parts on this tape are really clear sounding, and this band sounds like Morbid Angel or Cannibal Corpse. This tape was made in 1993, and the drums are extremely fast. On Noise/Futurist records. Rating:8/10 1
Angels and Airwaves’ 2006 debut We Don’t Need to Whisper signaled the beginning of a concept that not only continues, but flourishes with the release of the band’s sophomore full-length, I-Empire. That’s because the San Diego-based rock group, fronted by Tom DeLonge, has always considered both We Don’t Need to Whisper and I-Empire two halves of its double-album concept. While the band’s debut addressed infinite possibility in the human experience,…
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…