When I saw Enabler play at SXSW this past March on the same bill as Vestiges, Nachtmystium, Andrew WK and others, I had no idea the kind of metal royalty I was watching (although I do vaguely remember really liking the band through my beer and weed-induced haze). Here's a brief history of the band [...]
Black Breath are heading out on tour and they're taking Martyrdod, Burning Love, Enabler as part of the Sentenced To Life tour. Their new album, Sentenced To Life absolutely crushes, and is totally worth getting. We just posted their new music video. This one is for the riff worshippers. Here is the announced routing: 6/19 Seattle, ...
Enablers - Februaries (by MFVideoLab ) Live in Lille, 2010. Video by Marie Trolliet & Fabien Bouillaud
Enablers - The Achievement (by MFVideoLab ) The most intense 2:57 I've experienced this year. Save perhaps watching Swans live in @ primaverasound this spring. Live in Le Havre, 2009. Directed by m&f
Avant-garde, spoken-word band Enablers start their 42-show tour through Europe. PopMatters caught up with them in Dresden and they talked about the European music scene and what it's like to be part of such a distinct genre. The American four-part "spoken-word" act Enablers toured through Dresden last night. Marking the group's second stop on a 42-show European tour, the Dresden show followed a concert in Leipzig and a five-day rehearsal in Berlin (the band members are sprinkled throughout the US and don't have too much time to practice together regularly). The band's performance was titillating and thought-provoking, building off [...]
In Tall Buildings | photo by Elise Bergman March is finally here. You know what that means? Spring is in the air, snow is melting on the ground and pedestrians are spraining their ankles in newly formed potholes. Anyway, let's get on with our picks for this weekend's top shows, shall we... We've got In Tall Buildings at Metro , Tyler Jon Tyler at The Hideout and Nomo [...]
Regrets Three overwhelmingly-well-articulate d-and-thoughtful-and-devoid-of -any-so-called-snark reasons to oh great another show at Panchos tonight... 1. I can say for certain that Chicago's music scene runs fucking deep. Every day, I search and troll and seem to never fail at finding someone else I've never heard. Today's winner is Regrets who sound much as their name suggests. Yes, ugly, fast, dirty dirty hardcore it is. But you won't regret checking them out tonight. See what I did there? Very Gene Shalit of me. [...]
Retrospectacular Prospect Once again, time for a little sit at the table Christmas family reunion, to exchange gifts and make a little balance of last year's difficult times. Grandpas of Crazy-Language are still in top form, clearly proving they're here to stay until the need of some disapear change; whilst the children are running around like loonatics, showcasing their brand new fresh ideas, energy and clear will to leave a mark in the future. Overpowering glitches, soft as pie melodies, insane in the membrane breaks, experimentalisms from the depths of hell, pads thrown to earth by [...]
Will you people stop sending us really good bands? There are too damned many to keep up with. Jeez. Sentinel: Deliciously tasty death metal that's equal parts Morbid Angel / Gojira-style rhythmic DM and Dying Fetus / Suffocation-style groove/stomp DM. But with a sense for great riffs that's close to something like Decapitated or even Lamb [...]
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It's easy to speak of music in visual terms: line, texture, color. But local Bay Area ambient artists Wayne Grim [ Interloper, Blakc Pullet Grimoire ] and Ronald Aveling [ Left Sensory Bypass ] aka Jarktagons are hard at work making impressive dark and isolationist soundscapes for those willing to envision what their music would look like. This was all done through live improvisation and experimental recording in an uniquely compelling marriage. Jarktagons suggest the foreboding side of ambient pioneers like Stars of the Lid and [...]
Bands across the Internet have evidently decided that they'd like to post web-exclusive one-off cover MP3s this week. Fine by me. This is way more fun than digging through eighteen tracks of no-na... Continue reading "MP3: The Enablers, "Whatever You Like"" >
Pavement has begun its duties of guest curators for Weekend #2 of All Tomorrow's Parities 2010 , today unveiling the first five acts that will be joining them between May 14 and 16 at Butlins Resort in Minehead, U.K. And not surprising, it's quite an eclectic batch, highlighted by the one band that had perhaps strangest relationship with Pavement during its 10 year existence. Yes, The Fall has been confirmed to take part in next year's festivities. The English post-punk outfit has long been cited as one of Pavement's biggest influences, though frontman Mark E. Smith [...]
Enablers sera de passage à Paris le 20/06 au Point FMR en compagnie de nos amis de Team Ghost . (retrouvez toutes nos dates sur l'agnda du blog)
storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. so said hannah arendt. goldring, thomson, byrnes, simonelli are master storytellers. combining post-allen ginsberg beat narratives with amy hempel polaroid abstractions with david lynch-esque cinematic tension with oxbow style destructo mood swings. reductionally what it is, is spoken word. what it is, is brooding rock. reductive to the point [...]
Enablers Tundra Exile On Mainstream 26 January 2009 by Jerry Ewing Art, in metallic terms, is all too often a by word for arse. And on paper Enablers really shouldn't offer too much for the ardent headbanger. But these days rock fans can be a thoughtful bunch, seeking all manner of catharsis in sound, and if it's this latter [...]
Good Sunday, all. Great Sunday, if you've also read this article about bacon-flavored vodka ! More bars should take this recipe and put it to use. Hell, more people I know should put this recipe to use. That way when I come over and someone says, "sorry brah, all I've got is vodka," I won't be so quick to call the person a fucking pussy and walk out of their house. Can't you think of anybody but yourself? Christ, I just wanted to unwind with a little drink after work but you're telling me I can't have a bacon-enriched [...]
San Francisco's Enablers are more an amalgam of music and poetry than the average band. This distinction is forged primarily through the use of speech only loosely set in pattern with the music instead of sing-song verse. In a live setting - in this case New York City's Knitting Factory, at the Tap Bar - it's the words that takes the forefront, thanks to the power of front-man Pete Simonelli. Forceful and engaging, he's part storyteller, part actor, part preacher, part magician. Wildly gesticulating, crouching, jumping, thrusting his body across the stage in assorted ways, he's impossible to [...]
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