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American progmetal combo Symphony X is a bit of Dream Theater’s little brother. Just in popularity that is, because to me Symphony X is far more interesting than their ‘big brother’.
An American of Icelandic/Korean heritage seems to be bound to make exotic music. Besides working with a variety of musicians like Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3), Bill Frisell and Laurie Anderson he continued to make solo-efforts.
The third and final part of the trilogy marks an important point in Mr. Marshall Mathers' career. The pressure to top Marshall Mathers LP (2000) has been immense and the success he has would seem unsurpassable.
If there was ever one album that I would consider life-changing, it would be Jeff Buckley's Grace. I discovered the album at a time in my life when I was fairly immersed in introspection and self-doubt, to a degree.
Steve Austin is one ferociously petulant individual. No one can possibly deny the pure visceral gut-punch that he delivers with his venomous, distorted-yet-emotional (and no, not cuddley, "let's sit by the fireplace and wax poetic," emotional) vocals.
About a year ago, Tara of Lycia and I exchanged a few e-mails back and forth. As I am a great lover of Lycia's ethereal style of music, it was only natural for me to ask whether we could be hoping for a new release since 1998's Estrella, but sadly, she replied that "Lycia will never record another album".
The German duo Beefcake is back with a quite special release, this time on the French label M-Tronic. Besides four new tracks, Hôte contains five remixes plus some additional multimedia material.
Concept albums aren't very common in the modern pop genre. Before hearing the Belgian Hooverphonic - Presents Jackie Cane I could not think of any pop act with a concept album.
Every once in a while comes along a band that gets pigeonholed by being labeled a clone of a similar, innovative act. When this happens, the band usually has no choice but to make a steady progression and begin to infuse other stylistic elements that encompass their sound
Imagine what would happen if The Beach Boys, circa Pet Sounds, were supplied with some extremely potent acid complementary of Dr. Albert Hoffman, himself. Now imagine what would happen
Have the Anticon dudes gone one bridge too far ? That’s the question you might be forgiven for asking if you’ve read a few reviews of their latest release, Themselves’ second album, The no music. Some say “beware, geniuses at work”, others say die.
Yume Bitsu is a space-rock/post-rock quartet from Portland in the US (no, they are not from Japan despite their exotic moniker) and their new album, The Golden Vessyl of Sound, is both very ambitious and unpretentious in equal measure.
Ever wonder what it would be like to trek along a desolate path strewn with leaves and other natural debris on a dark and mysterious night in the middle of a snow-covered forest in Iceland?
Following the recent influx and subsequent success of stripped down, Garage Rock-esque bands -- which has begun to dominate radio airwaves globally, whilst garnering critical acclaim from such highly esteemed entertainment magazine publications (e.g. Spin, Rolling Stone, etc.) --, Interpol
There is good music, bad music, excellent music and there is something else. Tujiko Noriko belongs to the latter category, and her latest album Hard ni sasete (make me hard) is quite certainly one of the best thing to have come up from that very category.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor (yes, the punctuation changed) received a fair amount of well-deserved praise in the past few years. Their blend of classically structured epic instrumentals and punk spirit has been a revelation for many who recently discovered the world of post-rock
Prepare for a lot of bold words in this review because Bootsy’s new CD features a lot of guests. Like the title indicates, Bootsy invited lots of artists to play with him.
Buffy The vampire Slayer has been running for 7 years now and continuously grew in both storyline and quality. Although the show got quite a bad name due to it’s first season it has become the number one supernatural drama TV show.
To me there are three kinds of good albums: those that come out of nowhere and really impress you, those that you had high expectations for and they fulfill or surpass them, and the ones that make you want to drop whatever career you’re pursuing, pick up an instrument and become a member of the band.
The cinematic approach of Ulver's last CD Perdition City and subsequent 2 EP’s hasn't gone unnoticed and an actual soundtrack composed by them seemed to be a matter of time.
Since his band Primus has been put on hold, founding member and bassist Les Claypool has enough projects to keep him busy. One of these projects is Colonel Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, whose 1st studio-album has been released on his Prawn Song label.
Shinso - Message at the depth is the 7th studio album by DJ Krush, one of the inventors of abstract hiphop, together with DJ Shadow.
It’s been a while since Chaosphere was released. The only live-signs were a collection of oddities and the 2002 tour of the US, with the infamous Ozzfest. The audience is growing fast for Meshuggah, gaining many young fans.
Born in the shadow of the legendary Kyuss, QOTSA have acquired a place of their own since they released their first album. With Songs for the deaf, they now belong to another league...