Author: James McQuiston

Posted on: November 20, 2007 Posted by: James McQuiston Comments: 1

One World – Share My Love

One World – Share My Love / 2007 Sunstone / 15 Tracks / http://www.myspace.com/oneworldband / http://www.sunstonerecords.com / One World is an act that can easily move from a niche genre into something that will be accepted and appreciated by a wide swath of popular music listeners. “Julia” is a slower track that makes individuals recall an earlier Latin style. The shuffling arrangements present during this track keep the track fresh…

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The Switches Album and Release Information

”when I was a kid all I did was listen to music,” says, front man of Brit Pop Punk Band Switches. “… I started playing and writing songs when I was four or five. At that age I only knew two chords so it was mainly Bolan rip-offs. I used to be fascinated with multi-tracking. I had this Fisher Price tape recorder and my moms reel to reel and I…

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Teenmilk – S/T [ADB]

This is an 11 song tape, and it was self released. They tout themselves as New York Cities oldest noise band. They are more of an industrial band then a noise band, because noise bands are usually just random noise, while industrial bands have some harmony, and Teenmilk has a little bit. Teenmilk has brutal-sounding riffs, definitely drawing parallels to bands like Overkill and Exodus.This is hate-indsutrial music, in which…

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Anti- Records Signs Man Man

Hailing from Philadelphia, Man Man are an astonishingly original quintet who have found the perfect berth for their gypsy-swamp-rock-carny-soul sound at the equally singular Anti- Records, home to other such illustrious iconoclasts as Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Neko Case.

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The Hanslick Rebellion – The Deli of Life

The Hanslick Rebellion – The Deli of Life / 2007 Eschatone / 6 Tracks / http://www.eschatone.com/albums/ESC011/ / “You Are Boring The Shit Out of Me” Is that stand-out track during “The Rebellion Is Here”. The song starts out with an instrumental interlude that will slowly worm its way into each listener’s head. The track, which deals with the banality of office work, has hints of System of a Down and…

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The Silver Seas – High Society

The Silver Seas – High Society / 2005 Cheap Lullaby / 11 Tracks / http://www.beesmusic.com / Two years of distance between when this album came out and when it was originally recorded does not even put a minute layer of dust on the compositions that The Silver Seas (formerly The Bees) put together on their “High Society”. Daniel, Jason, John, and David are able to craft a style that is…

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Nirvana Re-Release “MTV Unplugged” Performance on DVD

Nearly 14 years to the day of the filming of Nirvana’s landmark “MTV Unplugged” performance, that raw, revealing and emotionally gripping acoustic concert previously seen only on television will be available for the first time on DVD. Unplugged In New York (Geffen/MTV Networks/UMe) will be released on November 20, 2007 and will feature the complete, unedited 66-minute concert including “Something In The Way” and “Oh Me” not aired during the…

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Tankard – Hair of the Dog [ADB]

This tape is a 10 song complication from 1989, covering Tankards career from 1986-1989. This, as with most good metal albums, is on Noise/Futurist records. They were a German metal band, and their fan club can be reached at: Jochen Graf: Po Box 55 02 62, 6000 Frankfurt #55. the vocals are all delivered by Screaming, and they sound like Metallica, Exodus, Pantera, Megadeth, Autopsy, and Coroner. They had 4…

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Infected Mushroom LIVE on blogTV.com!

The Concert Will be Broadcast Worldwide on November 22nd at 3pm EST; Viewers will be Given the Opportunity to Co-host From Their Home TEL-AVIV, Israel, November 19/PRNewswire/ — BlogTV.com, a revolutionary UGC website that enables anyone with a Webcam, DV cam or 3G phone to create their own show and broadcast it LIVE online, will be streaming (http://www.blogtv.com/Shows/24583 ) a LIVE Infected Mushroom concert straight from Tel Aviv on November…