The Viper room was absolutely packed when I arrived shortly before 11:00 to see Helmet. I managed to get a good spot at the front of the stage when the previous band ended and was ready for another pulverizing dose of Helmet. After seeing them at the Griffin in San Diego , I knew Helmet was ready to rip it up. Seeing that it was a "hometown" show, I figured Helmet would give the crowd a few extra songs. Little did I know that Helmet would stretch their set to a mind blowing twenty-two song set that included hits, [...]
Helmet embarked on a mini-tour of the West Coast in preparation for some big gigs down in South America. As I detailed in my Last Shot column , Helmet is one of my favorite bands. I was pretty exhausted from a busy week and recovering from chemotherapy but was determined to make the drive down to San Diego to see Helmet destroy. As always, Helmet delivered a super sharp set. The last batch of Helmet shows have found the band reaching far back into their catalog and playing a number of songs they don't normally perform. As [...]
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Incoming: The Rolling Stones, the Killers, Metallica, Los Lobos, Paramore, HIM, Built to Spill, Metz, Alice Russell, Robyn Hitchcock, Marnie Stern, Killing Joke, Chad Valley, Big Black Delta, Clinic, Vietnam, Keaton Simons, Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, Javelin, Maps & Atlases, Little Boots, Pyyramids, Os Mutantes, Lisa Germano, Armin Van Buuren, Helmet, K's Choice, Saint Motel, Sleepy Sun, Tenacious D Above: British soul singer Alice Russell released her latest, "To Dust," in February on the Tru Thoughts label, and director Steve Glashier's video for the song "Heartbreaker" features a very [...]
Few records aided in moulding a generation-defining aural identity as did Rival Schools' United By Fate of 2001. Alongside Thursday's Full Collapse and The Get Up Kids' Something to Write Home About , it was more or less one third of the very genesis of emo and whatever your take on the now widely reviled genre, that ain't to be sniffed at down many nostrils in the same way that United By Fate was, to my ears, one of the defining albums of my formative years. It was therefore pretty dispiriting that [...]
Everybody and their momma got a chance to audition for The Postal Service. I'm a weird genius, shit, where's my time to shine Mr. Sub Pop, why didn't you call L.A. RECORD's office? Here's all the talent right here! I'll take my shirt off and swing it around on stage while Jimmy Tamborello does the beep beep bop boop ting ting. —Daiana Feuer
Okay, so it's just a joke -- but it's still worth watching!
Tomahawk, a musical super group consisting members of Faith No More, Jesus Lizard, and Battles, have finally came out with a new album. With their new release Oddfellows, Tomahawk continues to do what they have always have done best: ... Continued
The band rebounds from 2007's disappointing Anonymous .
actualtruestories : Helmet - Overrated
One stop. Two ears. All of today's heavy new releases. U jam all week, all heavy records get a chance, Jamey Jasta bro nods with crossed arms.
Edith , David, and Michael of the dream rock outfit Distant Correspondent sent us these answers to our questions in this next installment of the q and also a series. q: What is the last song you (really) heard? e: I was listening to the radio on the drive back from Colorado. The last one I remember hearing was the one that goes " ladies and the drinks! ladies and the drinks! ladies and the... it's what I came for!! " (by Trey Songz ). [...]
Helmet played a blistering set at the House of Blues Hollywood. Page Hamilton has his requisite current batch of young lions and they flogged the set enthusiastically. Kudos for stretching out into lesser-known material and steering clear of "Unsung," et al. Photos and words by Ward Robinson [View with PicLens]
Another exhausting Rocktober has finally come to an end. Of course, who better to close it out than R Kelly? Thursday, October 25th An Evening With Public Image, LTD at The Regency Ballroom Sure, it's not The Sex Pistols. However, Johnny Rotten's post-Pistols New Wave project may not have the historical gravitas of his first [...]
actualtruestories : Helmet - He Feels Bad
It is difficult for me to believe that it has almost been twenty years since I first saw Helmet as they opened for Ministry with support from Sepultura at the then Universal Amphitheater in 1992. It was one of the first five concerts I attended and has left an indelible mark on my memory. My first brush with Helmet was seeing their video for "Unsung" on Headbanger's Ball on MTV. It was heavy and fast. Page Hamilton immediately became a guitar hero of mine with his drop-d tuned ESP magenta Horizon guitar. Every time Helmet comes [...]
Tomahawk, banda de noise rock/metal alternativo -y uno de los tantos proyectos fronteados por el polifacético Mike Patton -, regresa después de seis años de no grabar disco con Oddfellow , un nuevo LP que será lanzado a principios del próximo año. El combo de all-stars formado por Mike Patton , Duane Denison -de The Jesus Lizard -, Kevin Rutmani - Cows , Melvins - y John Stainer - Helmet , Battles - regresan con este cuarto LP el [...]
DJ Riz in The Rocket circa September 1992 ...to Power KEXP during its Fall Fundraising Drive ! Digging in the vaults, I unearthed this print ad for a September 1992 issue of The Rocket , featuring our own DJ Riz ! Back then, Riz was responsible for the drive time shift on weekday afternoons. What might you have heard? Well, I couldn't find a playlist for September 1992, but according to an issue of Feedback ("the only newsletter that matters from KCMU 90.3 FM") dated July/August 1992, the artists at [...]
Was very excited to learn that there is a Documentary being made about Amphetamine Reptile Records called The Color of Noise . Kind of made my day yesterday. Also that I'm going to be able to contribute some live footage of HELMET that has been hiding out in my basement since 1991 when they played with Jawbox. We'll see if it makes the cut. The director Eric Robel interviews Tom Hazelmyer who ran the ship at Am/Rep and if the trailer is any indication judging on the graphics alone it looks amazing. Such an amazing roster [...]
Pre-1992, they reportedly blew out CBGB's PA system. They were allegedly the subject of a 22-label bidding war. This... was all my teenage self needed to know. This, I'd gleaned via glossy paper from the (pre-internet) magazine called RIP, specifically from its "buzz" subsection, toward the front, where they'd talk about unsigned bands. Many, many years and permutations of metal and hardcore later, this is still a great, experimental (Page Hamilton and all his abstract jazz talk payed off) heavy metal album. It's difficult to nail into any specific sub-category, [...]
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