Undercover Presents is a quarterly project that selects influential albums from the rock and roll lexicon for a diverse assortment of Bay Area musicians to put their spin on it, in both a recorded studio album and a live performance. Past tributes have been the Pixies' Doolittle and The Velvet Underground & Nico . This time around, guest curator Cornelius Boots has chosen an eclectic group of 50 musicians to reinterpret Balck Sabbath's 1970 magnum opus Paranoid at the Independent in its entirety with a marching band, a gamelon ensemble, straight-forward rock and roll, [...]
Eh ben ouais, la Grèce (et la graisse) est à l'honneur ce dimanche 17h/18h sur la radio 666... Elle était déjà censée l'être la semaine dernière mais un événement imprévu a fait capoter l'émission... Un truc de fou qui nous a fait frôler la crise de nerf -on se contentera finalement de la crise financière. [...]
I'll give you that this is a little bit abrasive, compared to the music I usually post about, but I still have a penchant for the heavier side of things. Unlike most bands in their area, Glaswegian group United Fruit are here to give you a swift kick to the teeth. The guitars are shredding and the vocals are reminiscent of the olden days of Trail of Dead , so you know we Austinites are going to have a liking for that. These kids have just released their new album, [...]
OK. So I have a confession to make. I am massively late to the party here. Fault Lines , debut album from Glaswegians United Fruit , dropped way back on May 30th. And as such I cannot write this review and pretend to be right at the cutting edge of modern music. However, I can and do write this review on the premise that someone might actually read it, and then listen to United Fruit , and then buy Fault Lines . [...]
OK. So I have a confession to make. I am massively late to the party here. Fault Lines , debut album from Glaswegians United Fruit , dropped way back on May 30th. And as such I cannot write this review and pretend to be right at the cutting edge of modern music. However, I can and do write this review on the premise that someone might actually read it, and then listen to United Fruit , and then buy Fault Lines . [...]
"Fault Lines plays like a broader attack on the senses – touched by the kind of dynamism that marked out Trail of Dead's Source Tags & Codes as an adrenaline shot to the heart of a dying genre." - The Skinny, June 2011 Read more »
United Fruit From: Glasgow, Scotland If you like your music smooth with all the rough edges filed away then you may as well leave now and go and indulge in the dubious pleasures of SmoothFM or Simply Red's back catalogue. If however you like your music raucous, discordant and so loud it makes you dizzy then keep reading because United Fruit are on a mission to destroy your brain cells and leave you little more than a quivering wreck. [...]
Throughout May our man AC Slater has been giving away a free track and DJ mix every week through his Facebook. Week 3 is perhaps the best yet with AC putting together a real, heavy bass banger. http://soundcloud.com/acslater /sets/ac-slaters-may-giveaway- free////////////////////////// ////////////////////Canblaster remixes O. Children's - Fault Line.Put two super talented musicians together and this
Almost two years to the day since the release of United Fruit's debut EP Mistress, Reptile Mistress! comes the time to unleash their debut album, Fault Lines. Unleash is the right word for it, as Fault Lines is a rampaging monster of a record. Opener Kamikaze sets the tone for a thirty something minute thrill ride, all distorted guitar, snarled vocal and pounding rhythm section. Once it has been set at frenetic the pace doesn't dip until Three, half way through. Three offers a bit of a breather, slowing things down a tad, [...]
Almost two years to the day since the release of United Fruit's debut EP Mistress, Reptile Mistress! comes the time to unleash their debut album, Fault Lines. Unleash is the right word for it, as Fault Lines is a rampaging monster of a record. Opener Kamikaze sets the tone for a thirty something minute thrill ride, all distorted guitar, snarled vocal and pounding rhythm section. Once it has been set at frenetic the pace doesn't dip until Three, half way through. Three offers a bit of a breather, slowing things down a tad, [...]
Is it just me, or has 2011 been really good for noise-rock so far? In any case, it's about to get better. Glasgow's United Fruit are gearing up to release their debut album 'Fault Lines' next week. It's quite a loud listen, but beneath all the clattering drums and overdriven guitars there are nine very good and extremely enjoyable songs. 'Wrecking Ball' is the record's closing track, and I've been enjoying it so much that I'm certain you need to hear it. It's arguably the standout, but acts as a good indication of what the album's about - it [...]
Label: UF Records Release date: 30/05/11 Link: Myspace Buy: Amazon If you like your music smooth with all the rough edges filed away then you may as well leave now and go and indulge in the dubious pleasures of SmoothFM or Simply Red's back catalogue. If however you like your music raucous, discordant and so loud it makes you dizzy then keep reading because United Fruit are on a mission to destroy your brain cells [...]
The Doobie Brothers : Livin' on the Fault Line [ purchase ] Underneath us all There's a world that we always forget 'til it moves us, Where the moon on the bay dances all alone. Ramone, he draw the razor swift, it slice the air, No more lovely dreams of those summer nights Down in Santo Domingo. Livin' on the Fault Line was the second album in the Michael McDonald era of the Doobies, and is considered [...]
I had this huge crush on this song at the beginning of '06. I used to listen to it on repeat, just sitting in the dark. Yeah, come to think of it, it sounds a bit emo. Anyways, I always found it so pure and simple, that anything added to it - even light or movement or whatnot - would burst the bubble break the charm (as Björk would say). This went on and off, for a few weeks. I don't think I've listened to it since, but a few minutes ago it came to [...]
Αγαπητό Ημερολόγιο Ξέρω ξέρω.. δικαιολογίες δε χωράνε ούτε αυτή τη φορά. Άργησαν φέτος οι διακοπές μου και γι'αυτό ελπίζω να με συγχωρέσεις που άργησα και πάλι τόσο να σου γράψω. Τι τα θες, δεν είμαι εγώ για διακοπές το Σεπτέμβρη. Να, πήγα και πάλι στο Βερολίνο για την καθιερωμένη πλέον καλοκαιρινή καλλιτεχνική ενημέρωση και ξεπάγιασα ακόμη και με το δερμάτινο. Ωραίο πάντως αυτό το Φεστιβάλ Χορού τους, το Tanz Im August .. 1. The Fault Lines, Meg Stuart/Philipp Gehmacher/Vladimir Miller, Podewil, 26.8.2010 [...]
Diamonds On A Boat from Nicholas Audsley on Vimeo . Forty nine chalk farm road. The scene of many a legend. Falling down stairs, forgotten conquests, drunken despair, unlikely meetings with radio legends and faded pop stars and stage invasions. A few thursdays back I overground my way along the lock, past Morrisons, shivering my way past the bouncer [...]
If the MetalSucks Universe had been born one year earlier, we would have had many amazing albums to hype on our 2006 best-of lists, and one that would have most definitely ranked mighty high on my cannon was Intronaut's first full-length, Void. At the time (and to this day) Void - and its baby sister, preceding [...]
Wait? What?!? I live in the Pacific Northwest. Holy Cow! The Northwest owes its hazard-prone future to what's happening underground. Beneath a line of volcanoes that stretches from British Columbia to northern California and includes Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Shasta, one of the Earth's plates is wedged beneath another. The fault line is called the Cascadia subduction zone, and it shakes every few hundred years when the plates shift. The quaking, which can last for minutes, triggers a tsunami that follows 10 to 20 minutes later and reaches heights [...]
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is a brother project to the better known Mission of Burma. Regardless of reputation, they were visionary musicians, producing a sound that might be argued as still ahead of its time. They produce something akin to classical lounge music (but infinitely more interesting than that moniker connotates). One might think because of their instrumental and prog-ish nature, Birdsongs' compositions would be more akin to free-jazz, improv rantings and ravings. But the reality is much closer to something uniquely cinematic, compelling linear narratives written with music. Their music benefits from the structure of a [...]
You can now grab the first taste from Keane's forthcoming album 'Perfect Symmetry' for free on their website . The track's called ' Spiralling' , and it has all the right reasons to get excited about. A vast departure from the Keane I knew and loved, it has a strong '80s-influenced sound, and may be the first Keane song ever that I think would sound nicer with the 'Dance' equalizer preset in iTunes. It's a refreshing and unexpected change, and still properly catchy. Everything from the new press photos to the much more colorful artwork has 'subtly' [...]
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