While no well-versed metalhead would ever consider the ambient sounds of SPYLACOPA to be "metal" by any stretch of the imagination, there are good reasons why news of a debut release from a band that unites members from so many noteworthy metal bands to be of importance. Although this slowly developing project has been Brooklyn-based [...]
Isis are currently writing for a new, still-untitled album, the follow-up to 2006's triumphant In The Absence Of Truth. The band says, "We've been working hard on the new record. All five of us sweating away in a small windowless room in downtown Los Angeles. We're making good progress and will have more (and more [...]

I listened the hell out of UK instrumental Sludge/Stoner heroes Capricorns last album Ruder Forms Survive ; it was the kind of album that never left my car, was always the first pick on my MP3 player - I knew every riff, every timechange, every musical shift off by heart. It's quite comfortably one of my favourite albums of the last couple of years. So, I couldn't be more excited when their latest opus, River, Bear Your Bones was released last month. The atmosphere is [...]
I know it's a bit late, but check out Swan Fungus' 106 Sunday Mixtape. It should get me back into the swing of things. Tracks: 1. Mogwai - Batcat - (buy this album) 2. Alice Cooper - [...]
I'm sure most of you will have heard something from Thunderheist being played around the Sydney traps, and there sound is so individual you would have to know it's them. Thunderheist sounds like a mixture of Kid Sister , electric 80's pop, MSTRKRFT and sex. In their own words Isis and Grahmzilla , the duo who make up Thunderheist , describe their work as "serious electrocrunk boom bap. Ribcage rattling bass breaks laced with proper rhyming are flipped [...]

:: Hiram Bullock, part of the original band for Late Night with David Letterman, has passed away . :: Why did the Sony BMG Columbia website have Google AdWords on it? And how hilarious is the ad that Hypebot put on there ? :: Oh my; Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry by Cory Doctorow. :: Download the sheet music for the latest Deerhoof song, record your version, and upload. Oh wait, it's notation, not tablature - how many readers we got that [...]
I got this idea from our friends over at BITPOM.com who ran a thread like this a couple of months back. You know how there's those bands that everyone you know seems to like but you just don't get? And everyone insists that you would like this band if only you'd give them another shot? But no matter what you just can't seem to get into them at all? So... what bands does everyone like except you? Come on, don't be shy... the wonderfully anonymous wall of the Internet will protect you. No one [...]
Featuring members of Isis, the VSS, Angel Hair, and Halifax Pier, it's baffling as to why Red Sparowes isn't a more widely acknowledged post-rock supergroup. The LA quartet's last major release was 2006's Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun , and the band is releasing an EP to stay in the minds of their fans and tease toward their next album. The name of this 3-track, 18-minute pre-album endeavor: Aphorisms . And with song titles like "The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer," undisputed adages seem to be the central [...]

Kip has been raving about Seattle's Akimbo to me pretty much since we met one drunken night at a Mastodon show in the bowels of New Jersey, and with a new album on the way ( Jersey Shores , September 23rd on Neurot) and the spate of press releases that accompany said album, I finally decided to give 'em a shot. And I like. What I'm hearing is a blend of stoner rock/metal ala Mastodon/Isis/Neurosis, but with an extra emphasis on being bluesy and rocking the fuck out. Like, imagine those bands but way less serious [...]
EN: Cadenza will present its first artist full-length in September with Los Updates' First If You Please. Leave it to Luciano to give the honor of his label's first artist full-length to the most unexpected of choices: Los Updates is the project of Chilean legend Jorge González. Sure, it isn't that crazy: The singer, who made [...]

Isis has been described as "the thinking man's metal band." Others say the band has a Tool -lite, post-metal sound. This is a pretty easy comparison — since the band are friends with Tool — and I am not sure if I would agree. However, Isis does have a sound that is hard to pin down, and their music easily defies genre conventions. The band also draws praise because it draws from literary influences like Don Quixote and philosopher Jeremy Bentham. [...]
Dear Yum! Brands & Pizza Hut, Last evening (Thursday May 29th, 2008) I had a very upsetting experience involving one of your franchise's locations in Los Angeles, California. I feel it is my responsibility to inform you about what happened, and I will try to do so as objectively as possible. For your consideration: Allow me to set the scene. A small group of clean-cut, polite, Caucasian twentysomethings have gathered to watch the season finale of their favorite television program ( LOST , airs Thursdays at 9:00pm EST - 10:00pm PST on ABC). The consensus opinion [...]

I just re-watched the Vinyl documentary with Nicci yesterday, and burnt a copy of it to CD for one of my bosses, so of course I feel compelled to speak about record collecting today. I'm not going to discuss the process of acquiring new albums, or the analyze the psychology of someone who attempts to fill holes in their life with material possessions. I'm going to rant about how more and more bands and record labels are engaging in "limited edition" releases as a last-ditch effort to make dwindling audiences more greatly appreciate their recorded output. [...]
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Кратко: в воскресенье в Ikra выступала пост-металл-груп па Isis, было очень хорошо. Далее развернутая версия для заинтересованны х. Лет пять назад, когда Isis впервые серьезно заявили о себе альбомом «Oceanic», они казались эдакой занятной металлической надстройкой для пост-рока: тоже умеют растекаться гитарами по минутам, но там, где среднестатистич еский пост-рокер углубляется в дрочилово, Isis устраивают мочилово. Потом пошло-поехало пост-металл, гордая птица Pelican , маститые Mastodon ; в общем, тренд наметился, а Isis , тем временем, выпустили два своих лучших (на данный момент) альбома « [...]

Hey, guess who's NOT going to write about "Garfield Minus Garfield" in his weekly news wrap-up. Why? Because ARBUCKLE did it first. Take that, every major online news outlet who ran a story on Garfield Minus Garfield this week! • In a real-life "The Jetsons" moment, Australian researchers have taken a break from being eaten by Great White sharks to develop clothes that clean themselves. Yes, it's true. It seems that these folks "have found a way to coat fibers with titanium dioxide nanocrystals, which break down food and dirt in sunlight." With perhaps [...]

There's only one way to cover Serge's Love on the Beat: upping the racey factor. Isis , consisting of Czech-born Hana and German Antje (and producer Jerome Badini) are doing just that. It's not better, but you definitely get some Eyes Wide Shut-like scenes in your mind when listening. Or six million volts in your, ehm, pylon? Isis - Love on the Beat Serge Gainsbourg - Love on the Beat

Well, I missed a couple of weeks so I'm going to play catch up and highlight a couple releases that were worth picking up during those weeks. As always clicking on the band brings you to their myspace so you can give em a listen. Catch-Up Music Genghis Tron Board - Up The House This release is slightly more listenable than previous efforts. More song oriented this time around and more electronic only parts. [...]

So, seit Juni 2007 ist der Last Pop Song auf Sendung und ungefähr alle 10 Posts erscheint ein bunter, anarchischer MP3 Mix mit jeweils sechs aktuellen oder vergangenen Songs aus der großen weiten Musikwelt des Internets. Hier ist nun Nummer 30 und dies ist ein kleiner Grund Rückschau zu halten. Neben den sechs neuen Songs gibts als Bonus nochmals die gesamten ca. 1.000.000 bisher veröffentlichten Songs. Das der ein oder andere einen toten Link beinhalten könnte mag sein, ich habe sie nicht mehr alle überprüft. Viel Spaß! Joy Division - Failures (Live) MP3 [...]
It was November 20 2007, and I was preparing to leave my ' Joe vs the Volcano ' office space and head out to the Troubadour for a show that I'd been psyched about for some time. As I headed up surface streets through the plastic landscape known as Beverly Hills, I began to think about all the times I'd seen ISIS perform from Boston to LA. I tried to rate which one was my favorite (the free outdoor show at MOCA in downtown LA quickly came to mind) however it was too hard to pick just one. [...]