“With an electronic pop sound, Felix Da Housecat will craze club goers with his futuristic syntho-pop beats.†– BPM “Departing from his dance/house roots, Felix Da Housecat has shown that he is able to grow as an artist by creating He Was King, a surprising well-crafted electronic pop album. – Filter Magazine “Felix puts his own electro-tinged, drum machine-driven pop, robotic-vocaled stamp on everything.†– Paper Magazine Felix Da Housecat…
Rising Portland, OR-based band, Blind Pilot, kicks off a nationwide tour this October. The tour arrives on the heels of their full-length debut 3 Rounds and a Sound, which earned the band performances on national radio (NPR¹s ³Morning Edition² and ³All Songs Considered²), national television (³Last Call with Carson Daly²) and a spot on this year¹s bill for the esteemed NPR Music Showcase at SXSW in Austin, TX. The album,…
Dan Deacon has spent most of 2009 doing things on a large scale – he toured with an ensemble ranging from 13 to 17 people, played large festivals like Lollapalooza, did the Round Robin tour with No Age and Deerhunter (aka No Deachunter) and even collaborated with an entire marching band (Providence’s What Cheer? Marching Band, who joined him in Chicago this past weekend). Now Deacon is taking things a…
“When two dudes in military-looking duds haul a reel-to-reel tape player, megaphones and telephones up on stage, plug in a bunch of mystery cables and proceed to perform an energetic, fist-pumping set of lushly orchestrated, guitar-drenched pop songs, you’re probably not going to forget who they are anytime soon.” – Cincinnati CityBeat BVLOS ANGELES, August 13, 2009 – Notably dubbed band you should know by MTV.com, the two-man indie-rock army…
Hughesnet is one of those companies that really has increased their worth in the last few years. While they were always a solid companies, hughs in El Paso, Texas should be seen as a shining example of a satellite internet company. The customer service, speed and ease of installation all rate amongst the highest that I have ever familiarized myself with in the years since I first got satellite internet…
“If Elvis had been a woman, he probably would have sounded just like Dallas-ite Kim Lenz…†— Rolling Stone http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=61528071 In Kim Lenz’s exceptional video for “Zombie for your Love” (feel free to post!), she takes her intended on a full moon date to the wildest bar in town and shows him why she’s “not like other girls.”! The first video from her new album “It’s All True” is a…
There are a number of different skate shoes that have flooded the market in the last twenty or so years, largely attached to the growing appeal of skateboarding among the suburban masses. A number of those shoes are nothing to write home about, but a few companies are coming up with some inspired types of footwear. One of these companies would have to be DVS shoes, which put as much…
The Curtains are a band that I find extraordinarily difficult to properly tag, as their style of largely-instrumental music seems fit for an artsy movie. However, jazz-influenced tracks such as “Kites For Rookiesâ€, even if they do maintain an instrument-heavy sound, use softly-spoken vocals to add a whole other dimension to the track. The tracks on “Vehicles of Travels†are all short, with only a few tracks breaking the two-plus…
Why have I never even heard of Current 93, considering that they have cut over twenty albums and have been around for nearly twenty-five years? This brand of folk music is very narrative-based, and the sheer amount of different singers present on “Black Ships Ate The Sky†are enough to make a case for this being more of a play than an album. A few major players in indie music…
2000, 5 piece band from Nevada (Las Vegas). Very hard rock in the vein of old Alice in Chains, Clutch, and Helmet. The vocals are influenced by black metal acts such as Venom, Six Feet Under, and Cannibal Corpse. The drums are reminiscent of Bad Religion and Pennywise while the guitars mix between Elliot Smith and Guns n Roses. All & All, a very bizarre mix of components that work…
Curl Up And Die may just be the band that has been present through the entirety of the time that NeuFutur has been a print zine. Our first review of Curl Up and Die was about their “The Only Good Bug Is A Dead Bug†album, and the band has tightened up their sound more than a little bit since then. The screamed-out vocals of Mike really do not convey…
Jill Cunniff was formerly with the band Luscious Jackson. While I am 23, the band achieved prominence and then moved away from that prominence before I was big into indie music. Thus, the tracks on this disc have little in the way of reference points with which I can work. The smooth pop music of Cunniff on “City Beach†could be enough to catapult eir into the mainstream again. The…
The production value of “Kelsey Grammer Loves Usâ€, specifically during “ExBoyfriendsâ€, is not the best. The track puts a heavy focus on the vocal component of the act, with the guitars only weakly responding to the act. However, Cult of Sue Todd are not slouches in regard to the arrangements that they bring to their listeners. “ExBoyfriends†is just one of many tracks that builds up from one thing (vocals)…
The opening instrumental track, “Majestic Twelve†really shows Cue The Doves as a band that has a lot to say. The first track is more of an introduction of the styles that will be present throughout the CD. “Sphere of the Abyss†is a track that really gets individuals thinking; the style is much more rooted in the alternative rock of the early nineties, even as the vocals come forth…
Crystal Skulls start off their “Outgiong Behavior†with a track that is firmly grounded in sixties music. This title track sets the stage for the rest of the album, and moves beyond the superficial sounds of the sixties into something much more musically literate. “Baby Boyâ€, the second track, feels much more in step with the eighties brand of goth rock (taking into consideration bands like The Cure). “Baby Boy 
Coming through like an actually-female singer like Claudio (a fake-female singer) from Coheed and Cambria, Cruiserweight’s “Sweet Weaponry†comes through in an intense way, even if it is a little on the sterile side. “Vermont†is a track that sounds like it should be in the middle of the disc, in the sense that Cruiserweight is already at the top of their game, and with their incorporation of Sean Neil’s…
The Crumbs have been around for a decade. In that time they have been on two larger independent labels, with TKO being their third. The Crumbs are also a band that can move all through different sounds and harmonies in their way to making a truly chameleonic album. However, in all of the moving through genres and intensities, we are left with a very uneven album, with some of the…
I’ve reviewed The Crumbs once before. That album I wasn’t the biggest fan of, but that was The Crumbs 2003-2004, and this is the Crumbs 1993-2002, and I don’t feel that a blanket statement would do much to describe what clearly is a different phase for this long-lasting band. I’m shocked, I hear melody, and a style of punk that is a mixture of Rancid and The Ramones come out…
Coping off the riff for Metallica’s “Motorbreath†in the beginning of the track, the opening “G.W. Cunt†is a high-water mark for these two individuals, Joe Hiles and George McSweeney. The track is only around a minute, but political beliefs don’t need to be long, drawn-out treaties or discussion. “Pentagram Agenda 1984â€, as well as the rest of the tracks on the disc, feature guest drumming by Brock Ailes, from…
The opening track on “Don’t Look Down†is one that sets up the rest of the disc; one can almost imagine a sunrise with the skillful instrumentation that takes a dominant place during the first third of the track. There are no vocals here, but the tracks tell more in its instruments than hundreds of bands could hope for with over-emotive lead singers. Seventy minutes marks the extent of “Don’t…