The Super Bowl's status as the most elite sporting event in the US can only be rivaled by the marketing that's involved that have non-sports fans watching the pigskin classic. This year's game is a rematch that has two of the largest sports markets in the US with an even more interesting story line that has been brewing that involves the more popular and older sibling of the Giants QB, Peyton Manning and his ability to play or pass a physical. It's long been speculated that the Colts plan on dumping Manning, which is on the wrong [...]
Jarboe & Michael Gira of Swans (by eric fischer photography ) San Francisco 1995
It seems like we're getting a ridiculous amount of good new music today, doesn't it? It's almost overwhelming. It's also pretty much, like, the best problem to have ever. So. Next up on the docket is "Beyond the Lightless Sky," the title track for the new album from Brooklyn's own Hull. And, yeah, it's fucking [...]
After listening to Psycho's female blowtorch, Penny Torture, and Ava Inferi's haunting distaff elemental, Carmen Susana Simões, I realized it's time we just chill and admit that women are all-around better at this metal-singing thing. Is this mad exaggeration? It feels like that when I'm away from an MPEG player, but then I listen to those [...]
I've had a draft of a post dedicated to the Swans sitting in the queue for probably a year now. What I was planning to do was create a selection of posts just dedicated to things deemed in my mind "classics" and the late career live album Swans Are Dead is something that falls into that category. Perfect transition, as the news has hit that Michael Gira, frontman to both Angels of Light and Swans is reforming the latter with a mixture of old members and new for a tour this year. As well, [...]
Swans are following in a line of recently reformed bands that few thought would ever reform - particularly after making it clear that the last tour was a farewell event. Swans have announced a new tour and a new album but it will be without longtime member and vocalist, Jarboe . I am curious if this reunion was from an enticement from a festival such as Coachella as seems to be the case, I suspect anyway, from many other reunions. Whatever the reasons, I will be sure to go see them [...]
On Sunday night we caught the Beard Destroyer 2009 tour with Hull and Batillus (sadly for us, Salome didn't play that date). It crushed even harder than we thought it would, so we asked our friend, Batillus skinsman Geoff Summers, to do a tour wrap-up for us. We hope you enjoy! So, here I sit with [...]
At a small private ceremony in the Sistine Chapel, Benedict XV personally consecrated (Eugenio) Pacelli as archbishop of Sardi on May 13, 1917. Those with a mind to read significance into Marian dates would later note that Pacelli was made a bishop on the very day, Sunday May 13, 1917, when three children were said to have witnessed a Lady all of dazzling light at a place called Fatima in Portugal. The apparition, later identified as the Virgin Mary, told them: "Come here on the [...]
banging a drum kit banging some organs and keys i feel the riddum surrounded by stars climbing atop and klanging a pasa doble strangely enough zZz were probably the shit i enjoyed most about the weekend. and praise jeebus to the scheduling it was all i had to see so early on sunday afternoon. made me want to put on m'dancing [...]
10.06 - Boys Noize in Clashclub @ Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Porto11.06 - Boys Noize @ Lux, Lisboa13.06 - Sean Riley & The Slowriders @ Maus Hábitos, Porto15.06 - Tujiko Noriko @ O Meu Mercedes, Porto16.06 - Jarboe @ Passos Manuel, Porto16.06 - Gomo @ Cinema São Jorge, Lisboa18.06 - Brodinski & Yuksek @ Lux, Lisboa19.06 - The Sleeping Years in Subscuta @ Biblioteca Municipal de Barcelos,
05.06 - d3ö @ MusicBox, Lisboa06.06 - Dead Kids @ MusicBox, Lisboa10.06 - Boys Noize in Clashclub @ Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Porto11.06 - Boys Noize @ Lux, Lisboa15.06 - Jarboe @ Santiago Alquimista, Lisboa15.06 - Tujiko Noriko @ O Meu Mercedes, Porto16.06 - Jarboe @ Passos Manuel, Porto19.06 - The Sleeping Years in Subscuta @ Biblioteca Municipal de Barcelos, Barcelos20.06 - CocoRosie @ Centro
29.05 - WaVVes @ ZdB, Lisboa30.05 - Rev. DeadEye's No Man Gospel Band, Pe7erpanic + Riverside Sessions, by Kraak [DJ-Set] @ Inabar, Rio Maior30.05 - Wilco @ Theatro Circo, Braga30.05 - Hanne Hukkelberg @ Santiago Alquimista, Lisboa31.05 - Wilco @ Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisboa01.06 - Deerhunter @ Lux, Lisboa01.06 - WaVVes @ Passos Manuel, Porto06.06 - Dead Kids @ MusicBox, Lisboa10.06 - Boys Noize
Tracklist: Mahakali, Or Terryfing Countenance And The Sky Which Once Was Filled With Light... The House Of Void (Visceral Mix) Transmogrification From Afar, Upon The Back Of A Tiger The Soul Continues A Sea Of Blood And Hollow Screaming... Overthrown Mouth Of Flames Bornless Ascend Overthrown (Reprise) Kali Lamentation Mouth Of Flames (Demo Version) Violence "The idea of a 'goddess of destruction' is one that I've cherished for a long time. [...]
Along with Sonic Youth and lesser known bands like Rat At Rat R, Swans represented a darker side of New York music scene in the 80s. While their style changed somewhat as their career progressed further into the 90s, they still stayed true to image - mainly, obsession with all kinds of taboo subjects (tied [...]
Jarboe - Mahakali Release date: Oct. 14, 2008 [ amazon.com ] Disgusting.
vs. Sonic Youth have finally realized their music is too horrible even for a major label to release, so they're apparently close to signing with an indie label. Which label remains a mystery, but to this reporter it's clear-as-fucking-day that the band is not going to suddenly start sounding good again just because they're moving to a new record label. The likelihood of hearing a good Sonic Youth album from here on out is about the same as my being offered a job with a six-figure salary before the end of the year. Far be [...]
In 2006, San Francisco's Giant Squid released Metridium Fields, which is, to put it mildly, a fucking doozy of an album. Lucky for all of us, then, the band has just completed work at that record's follow-up, as singer/guitarist Aaron Gregory tells us in a press release: "Giant Squid just finished a grueling seven days of [...]
Influential post-punk vocalist Jarboe will released her brand new album MahaKali on October 14th. The album will be released in the States via The End Records. Check out the tracklisting after the jump. CD Jewel Case | TE118 | The End | 10/14/08 Tracklisting: 1. MahaKali, of Terrifying Countenance 2. And the Sky Which Was Once Filled With Light... 3. The House of Void 4. Transmogrification 5. From Afar, Upon the Back of a Tiger [...]
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