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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...
A collaboration between Mike Patton and The Dillinger Escape Plan could never work out wrong. For the uninitiated, The band plays a progressive mathematical mix of metal and hardcore.
Having only barely survived yesterday's Nile gig, I can only conclude that these guys just keep getting better and better.
Did you ever have that problem that if you put your nice cold drink on your wooden table it leaves one of those rather unattractive marks in the shape of a ring?
This weekend I saw fellow Trondheim citizens The Third And The Mortal perform with their soundengineer on keyboards and sequencers and now the first full-length CD by Gåte is in my CD-player (tusen takk, Stein). It’s called Jygri and it’s as good as the previous EP promised.
There are some albums that I don’t mind if it takes me a long time to absorb and form an opinion on. It was like that with Agalloch’s debut, Pale Folklore, and it is like that with their new one, The Mantle.
The Filmworks series showed the many aspects of John Zorn’s work over the last 10 years. He obviously was commissioned to do quite a few this year given the fact that he releases three volumes for this year alone within a month.
Discovered on a February night, Dälek brought some happiness in what had been a very bad 24 hours for me. Opening for Tomahawk, they caught me off-guard with a very heavy set and then revealed themselves as being very nice, down-to-earth blokes, deserving everybody’s attention.
You might be in for a surprise... But in fact that is what Autechre always does; taking the listener further and deeper into the artificial electronic world of the ever-innovating Mancunians. The new EP Gantz Graf is no exception and is an unnatural evolvement of the Confield-sound.