We had a new Giles Corey album from Connecticut singer-songwriter Dan Barrett earlier this year. Awesome! Now, I guess we've got ourselves a new demo from the project that pushed this guy into the spotlight he's currently in: Have A Nice Life. In true Barrett fashion, this track is dark, overblown, and massive.
Dan Barrett's latest project, a full-length album and book, is both a personal and fictional exploration of death, suicide, depression, and the afterlife. Because of that, this video takes a look at both the music and the book that comes with this package. If anything makes the tracks on this CD stand out, it's the atmosphere. Dan Barrett has a somewhat messy production style, but like any Mount Eerie album, it lends this project an interesting sound you're not gonna hear anywhere else. With one track after another being slathered in reverb, there are moments on [...]
Last November, we turned you onto New Jersey's Planning For Burial, a project with a highly esoteric take on post-rock influenced metal. We described the group as "post-life" music, given the band's focus on the other plane of life. They're heavy and doomy, though not in the conventional sense of those terms.Well Thom, the man behind Planning for Burial, has started a label entitled Music Ruins
Le meilleur album de 2008 en streaming sur Grooveshark En me renseignant sur cet album j'ai découvert qu'il est considéré par bon nombre de gens comme l'album de l'année. Pour ma part, je m'en suis aperçue à la fin de la 4ème piste du premier CD quand je me suis rendue compte que j'étais allongée par terre, la gorge nouée, complètement captivée par le son produit par ces deux types, deux étudiants américains en histoire qui ont trouvé leur inspiration dans l'étude d'une secte médiévale dont l'histoire est narrée dans le booklet [...]
Have A Nice Life is worth a trip or two to see live. Especially if Alcest is playing right after them. Their set in New Haven was much more tight and polished than it was at their live debut in New York . Cafe Nine was a decent place to see them, although the stage was way off in the corner and it was awkward finding a place to stand (lots of poles and stools and stuff). The best part about seeing HANL in a bar as opposed to The Stone [...]
by BBG DOWNLOAD: Alcest - "Percees De Lumiere" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Woe - "Alone with Our Failures" DOWNLOAD: Have a Nice Life - "Bloodhail" DOWNLOAD: Have a Nice Life - "I Don't Love" Alcest at their first ever live performance in Bucharest ( more by Stefan Raduta ) [...]
Liens et news de la semaine Chaque jeudi, une sélection de ce qu'il ne fallait pas louper ces 7 derniers jours Mark Linkous de Sparklehorse s'est suicidé http://is.gd/9T0Gb Le 1er album de Tame Impala sortira le 21 mai http://is.gd/aeDD1 Festival SXSW : 1038 morceaux à télécharger http://is.gd/9Z9XC Le nouvel album live des White Stripes en écoute http://is.gd/9Z9bu "Lisztomania" de Phoenix par une [...]
Pictures first, then the review. BAM! See 'em bigger on Flickr . Connecticut's devastatingly amazing metal/shoegaze/whatever duo Have A Nice Life played their first show ever at The Stone in New York on Sunday night. Living 5 hours away and being [...]
Alcest's new album, Écailles De Lune so relaxing to listen to... it's like an aural tongue massage. Even when there's screaming, it's, like, the most mellow screaming ever. In fact, I'm making a MetalSucks Mansion Monkey rub my shoulders while we crank it right now. He offered to add the tongue massage part, but even [...]
In addition to looking Mexican, I apparently now look like a hooker. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against hookers, but, I always thought of myself as a modern Princess Diana, you know, classy but hip. This all started with having Babyshambles on the other night (courtesy of Clemence Poles promotions). Now, I may not know any Libertines or Babyshambles songs, but I do know that hanging out with Pete Doherty is number 3 on my 'Things to in London" list, just after 'Visit Buckingham Palace' and 'Try Fish and Chips'. Why so high on the list you ask? [...]
Photo by Alison Scarpulla 01. Frozen Bayou (feat Alaskas) - Universal Studios of Floria 02. In my heart - Sore Eros 03. Chimeras - Tim Hecker 04. Our last moment in a song - Brian McBride 05. Rancher - Julian Lynch 06. Mountaintops in caves - Talkdemonic 07. Towards a tranquil marsh - Chihei Hatakeyama 08. A gathering to lead me then you're gone - Brian McBride 09. October Language - Belong 10. The big bloom - Have a Nice Life DOWNLOAD [...]
... while remaining unsigned! The NME says they were once signed to Alan McGee's label Poptones, but are now free agents. And apparently, as free agents, they have managed to outsell a pretty large group of relatively well-known artists, like MGMT and Kings of Leon. I think this is really cool. It sort of reminds me of an argument I got into a couple days ago about whether modern technology is good for music - or is it the case that we should all go back to living in 1972? And [...]
Sonja Thompsen - Crude 7 (2007) You smell like oil, she said softly, and I've been searching for you all my life. When I close my eyes, you are deep, black, sticky oil that covers my hands and face and esophagus. When you speak, my fingers slick back my bangs like a bird with coated black feathers. Have a Nice Life Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000 (mp3)
Cover presented by Story Hello and allo, happy Monday! It's a cold one today, down to a nasty 3°F today (windchill drops it to -1,000° or something fucked up like that), it's the kinda cold that gives you lips that weird blue feeling, no what I mean? Like you can feel the color blue, and your nose gets so numb, you are snotting on your face without even realizing it. No worries, everyone is, no need to be embarrassed. I [...]
2008 was a big year all around. The collapse of a world economy, the election of a landmark president, half of my clients merged with the other half. Oh, and I had a baby this year, too. I listened to a lot of music this year, and not all of it was made in 2008. I discovered lots of artists and albums I'd never heard, some from as far back as 2006, which in this era of instant gratification is practically a lifetime. Now, last year I had a hard time coming [...]
Because now is as good as time as any! I figured I'd post my Best of '08 post before Sarah, because hers is going to be a lot more complete than mine. Here goes! Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances I have a full review here , but that said, The Airing of Grievances is a really full on awesome record. It's complete with existential crises, Camus references, and really great borderline shoegaze guitar work. And it even has a [...]
Yessir, I think it's time to put out a list of what I consider the best five post-rock albums of the year. Most of them have something drastically different from your typical post-rock, and have therefore merited themselves to this list, so enjwoi: #5 - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band , formally known as A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons While Menuk's voice (and the band's newest name) never ceases to piss me off, this album deserves some credit. It got [...]
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Cinque anni di lavorazione. Dio, sembra un kolossal cinematografico. Cinque anni di ripensamenti, levigature, pause e ripartenze. Un annuncio raggelante: il disco più depresso della storia . Gli Have A Nice Life sono due perfetti sconosciuti (anche se probabilmente fra qualche tempo non lo saranno più), due ragazzi americani senza volto, due musici provenienti dall'oscurità come discepoli del suono dell'oscurità. Il loro disco [...]
Front and back of DVD case Have A Nice Life - Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000 So here's a band that is 1: from Middletown, Connecticut which is right next to my home town (yeah!) and 2: really tough to describe. Tough because no one else is doing what they're doing (at least not nearly as well) and also because some of their songs sound so different from others. That makes for difficult review writing, in [...]
Thanks to The Rock Blogger , I was introduced to Have A Nice Life , a shoegaze/industrial/metal duo from Connecticut. They self-released their debut album, Deathconsciousness this past January. It features a two-side disc set with a 70-page essay-type book that revolves around the history of religious symbolism and ideology, focusing on Antiocheanism, a religious cult that centred around the teachings of a sketchy character named Antiocus (can't find any other info on this, so whether or not the entire book is based on some fictitious character, I don't know, but regardless the general idea is [...]
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