by admin | Jul 2, 2005 | Uncategorized
Xbxrx noise, originally from Alabama, have signed to polyvynl records to follow-up their much touted 2000 releases Gop Ist Minee which they recorded when some of them were barely in highschool! Their spastic version of punk rock melds the mind because it’s so damn fast and spend most of the 20 minute show running around the venue. No performance is ever like the last. By buying their music helps them entertain the next crowd. I am curious to see if they take it to the next level visually. Otherwise it is not anything you are going to really spin but just talk about. It’s just art with a thinly veiled point. The band is something fun you experience. Just like more tribal Crash Worship which I saw flood the Wetlands in nyc, and swing a flaming boars head into the audience. The bonus of their show is that it can go on for hours if club management lets them. There was another NJ band called Codger which did a similar thing. Basically make a huge fuckin’ mess, played a set of deranged metal noise and just get the whole audience involved in their performance.
On the flip side there are bands where the musical performance is just as important as the content. The flaming Lips and >Neurosis fall into this category. Neurosis is more metal and about the mystique they create and the lips more about the art and mad hatter type of fun, I mean the second you introduce a puppet to sing along and very large bunny rabbits you know you’ve chosen the blue pill. No green. Blue. Green. Both are heavy into multi media aspect of their performance and make the experience well rounded. Consequently a group I used play with was more about what you can say with art through social imagery. See suran song’s site.
The third type is good ole live rocknroll. Band and audience.
by admin | Jul 1, 2005 | Uncategorized
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My takes were: Gorillaz from their new album Demon Days, second cut “Last Living Souls” and one of the deeper tracks from In Your Honor by the new Foo Fighters called “Virginia Moon” (Featuring. Norah Jones). Dave’s raspy swagger is complemented very well by Norah’s voice. Has this down home lounge jazz guitar feel with drum brushes, xylophone, and piano. The Gorillaz track is pretty cool and I think I am going to have to invest in the whole cd. The synth string arrangements are cool. It’s not over produced electronic and the melody is strong.
by admin | Jun 30, 2005 | Uncategorized
Today’s google cast unveiled Kempa.com: MP3’s of the week: Musical ‘mistakes’ / scoldings has a bunch of outakes of some happy accidents that were left in during the mix. Of note is the archers of loaf when the drummer hits his noes. Funny stuff. These aren’t the full tunes but was ok. You could make a whole set-list of this stuff. Which could prove to be very annoying. I do like listening to live bootlegs for this very reason though even more. I like that you can get a sense of bands live energy, recording translation and live crowd chemistry. A recent show I downloaded(because I was there) was a wrens show from last year at Maxwells when all of a sudden they had a crowd and they were coping w/ the fact they didn’t have to clap for themselves anymore and their jersey pride. Some of the other notable bootlegs I have somewhere in my archives are: firehose, melvins, mule, superchunk, helmet and ween off the top of my head. Gotta love that rockn roll. Some of these shows are on video to boot. Some other repositories: Music of Elliot smith and etree.org is for tapers who trade cdrs. Somebody hip me to the most recent peer to peer please as the courts duke it out with Mark Gorton of Limewire.
by admin | Jun 29, 2005 | Uncategorized
If I were to take a vacation on boat with a bunch of rock fans. First I would have to see what the destination was and then what the entertainment was going to be like. Usually opting for hanging out in the bar with a good ol jukebox. But since there are choices onThe Rock Boat VI the band I would remotely even be insterested in seeing would be better than ezra but If had to pick one I would go with the Flamming Lips on xingolati cruise. Now here is a show. Hanging out with their supporting cast of Large bunnies, golden people and fearless freaks would be a worth the ticket in itself and save me a trip to Oklahoma and probably would exausting but cool, if you reserve now before July 1st you can get a discount with code “thelips”. Also on the lip cruise is G. Love and Special Sauce, Medeski Martin and Wood, John Popper Project featuring DJ Logic and The Mutaytor. Got any mushrooms? Go to their video section as you might not even need it. I know it does not take me much to get a flash back going…
by admin | Jun 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
If you are dead broke and want some new music put this snip [“-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” mp3″] of code [between the brackers] in the window and start seeing what you find: today’s search yielded: plenty o’ classic rock, some live Super Drag, where i got them doing a version of ‘Motor Away’ & ‘Bastards of Young’ both great tunes, that my band the slow wire has covered. If i have to tell you who those songs are by you should really click away right now or if not do some research. You will be doing your Ipod a favor.
Another weird yield were these mtv vj clips try-out, in dutch i think, somebody please clarify, it’s almost as if the sync was completely off and suddenly forgot how to speak comrehend English.
by admin | Jun 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
There are several slices of life when some of your favorite music makers likePernice Brothers start to either sound similar or borrow from each other. Tastes change, music recording trickery evolves but the core evidence is all the same. If the songs are great is all that matters to us guitar junkies. The smooth part of PB reminds me why I like Startflyer 59, conversely SF59 reminds why I like PB song writing and both of these bands are appreciated because of other guitar heroes like Johnny Marr and the ethereal vocal reverb presence of the railway children, bunnymen, etc. Highlight are the title track ‘Discover A Lovelier You’, ‘Saddest Quo’ for the tremelo, and ‘dumb it down’. Your best bet to discover this music on the cheap is emusic.com, although their Indie selection is not as wide, their Jazz and other categories go very deep and eclectic.
by admin | Jun 27, 2005 | Uncategorized
Ween fans know when something is too brown, dark or of having lack of taste and that was probably rejected for their commercial “use” is going to full of music to annoy your co-workers by. Shinola Vol.1 reportedly has 12 songs and you can be pre-ordered from Musictoday.com. They are keeping the track listing a secret. So you just need to keep the faith because the bassmaster Mr. Andrew Weiss has put this collection together. No new brown jems but i’m sure the boognish vibe is all over it. Aaron and Mickey are writing and recording new songs. Which is awesome. No tour dates but there should be spotted show for us lucky NJ/NY/PA kids. They have had some personal hits in the last few years, with Claude Coleman jr’s car accident, Kirk Miller their long time soundman leaving their ranks, and another members fight with the touring afliction.
by admin | Jun 22, 2005 | Uncategorized
Anthony Volodkin has hipped me to a gamer album from radio krud. Now, I gave up gaming right around 96′, having finished all of the Blizzard games ( Diablo burnt me out) so this might be where you remember; as surely I don’t. Check out Radio KRUD: Killer Cuts which you can stream right from his sitehype-non-standard. Yes it is ‘strangely entertaining’: mostly instrumental prog-rock march soundtracks, with 80’s coy metal killing joke gothic type riffs, others are clearly rave inspired – happy mondays type stuff. Ideal for zoning out when you’re deep in the code so rip it before it is gone. Weirdly at some point though some of the more intricate music reminds me of the French band Magma that was created by drummer Christian Vander; but only for a umberto ecco moment. The world of magma is truly some far out prog-rock from another planet –literally.
by admin | Jun 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
This weeks freebie from itunes, is better than most by this UK band called Embrace which has a radio-esque/coldplay sense who apparantly have been around for awhile. The ballad “out of nothing” is charming and to the point and not a waste of your bandwidth time, in particular since it is free. The song slides in with the big rock guitars and is backed by some piano. Although some hardcore fans will not confuse them for ian mckaye’s first band called Embrace, we still give the single a 5.9, and will let the originals duke it out in litigation but I doubt it since it’s been awhile… But it does bring up an interesting point. At some point in this next lifetime the kids are going to run out of band names, especially those that will need to be mass marketed. How do you recylce creativity? “Never mind whats been selling, it’s what your buying” ~ blueprint by fugazi
by admin | Jun 21, 2005 | Uncategorized
I can’t say enough great things about the few local NJ scene people out there who go out of their way to propogate the aviso hara myth, some are very bad and obviuosly had issue with our music and I hope they are converted eventually by the believers who do write up articles titled: “Aviso’Hara Reforms, Returns and Rekicks ASS“. Compared to Ryan Schrieber’s much respected zine PF, where reviewers are allowed to run off the mouth and not fear any consequences from their actions. Sure I cherish a good swipe but six paragraphs? It’s easier to be negative when writing music reviews. I certainly feel Mr. Schrieber owes us another swing, the pitch fork slander has been haunting us. No, we’re not angry at all and you think we would be over it by now but I believe, like the wrens, we deserves some respect not because we’re from jersey and jersey is cool(for a moment), nor nostalgia sake, but because Aviso’ tries to do something slightly different and this other jackass(Mr.Reid) over at PF decided to take a piss on something we worked very hard to create and it still gets our goat. New Aviso’Hara material is coming your way soon. I promise as best I can and then we will see what happens.
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