Hello, friends. I hope your weekends were eventful and fun. Mine was the exact opposite. I caught a cold for the first time in almost a year (see what happens when i stop running four days a week and eating healthy?), so I stayed in and recuperated. This led to watching a number of movies [...]
When former Lungfish front man Daniel Higgs joined Swedish noise-rock juggernaut The Skull Defekts on their Peer Amid album earlier this year, it seemed like a natural fit that played to the strengths of both parties. Now, taking things one step further, The Skull Defekts teamed up with Zomes, the solo moniker of former Lungfish guitarist Asa Osbourne, for a day-long recording session in Rhode Island. The results are right here on 2013-3012 and they are as excellent as you can imagine. The union of The Skull Defekts and Zomes resurrects the pile-driving drone [...]
In an era of digital immortality, where news articles, blog posts, Facebook accounts, and even IM conversations last forever (long after they've been "deleted") in an incomprehensible, almost mythical online-cloud, it's hard to conceive of an album ever going "out-of-print." But once upon a time (not so long ago) when owning a record meant having something you could actually hold in your hand, caress, scratch, or destroy by throwing it out your window in a fit of rage, The Unanimous Hour, Lungfish's eighth album, did go out-of-print. Now, Dischord Records (the highly-regarded D.C. record label founded in the 1980's by [...]
For more than 20 years, Baltimore's Lungfish released albums featuring their own flavor of posthardcore via the Dischord Records label. Well, Dischord recently reissued the band's long-out-of-print eighth record, The Unanimous Hour , recorded at Inner Ear Studios , and mixed by Lungfish and Ian MacKaye . Here is side one, track one. Listen. Downloadable: Space Orgy (mp3) The cover art looks like this: You can order The Unanimous Hour @ dischord.com [...]
Words by Rick Moslen Growing up, many of us believed in punk rock but never considered ourselves "punk." We moshed at shows, bought $3 Epitaph compilations, and complained about Green Day not being a real punk band, but despite a few oddly colored hair manifestations, we never looked the part. Then high school arrived and we discovered Fugazi (cue Handel's Hallelujah Chorus). Not only did they look like regular dudes, but their aesthetic was as essential as the music. My high school punk band suddenly sported Fugazi -esque principles: [...]
A winning personality. A balanced approach. An honest voice. Only time can write a song that's really really real. The best a man can say is the way its playing feels. And know that he only knows as much as time to him reveals... [ mix cover image by Susana Raab ] May 2011 Mix 01 Intro 02 The Neon Boys - Time 03 unouomedude - Frequency 04 TV On [...]
Fans of the Baltimore post-hardcore quartet Lungfish have always held the band's enigmatic frontman, Daniel Higgs, in high reverence. And for good reason: It's hard to read the lyrics to any given Lungfish song and not come away with the impression that Higgs has seen sights, heard sounds, and contemplated thoughts the rest of us foolish mortals couldn't even begin to comprehend—much less put to music in a way that somehow resonates with an audience. (To be fair, however, I'm certainly not going to judge anyone who raises an eyebrow at lines such as "My daughter keeps a [...]
Legendary Baltimore experimental rock musician Daniel Higgs is set to tour Europe in November and December 2010 leading up to his slot at the Godspeed You Black Emperor! curated All Tomorrows Parties. Higgs is known for his work as... Read more..
Louisville's Coliseum has a new album, House With a Curse , out today. And in honor of the hellacious record's release, frontman Ryan Patterson is taking the reigns of Buzzgrinder today. This video has circulated around on the VHS trader circuit for over twenty years now, I was very excited to get a DVD copy recently. When people talk about "heavy" music these days, they are way off base. This is what heavy means to me. Ignition guitarist Chris Bald [...]
Like a lot of DC artists, Sean McArdle has musical roots in a more aggressive post-punk sound. But his solo effort is a decidely more melifluous affair. With a classic folk sound that recalls Nick Drake at times and the gritty Americana of Towns Van Zandt, his warm voice and finger picking guitar style drive these [...]
Join us for a rare performance by the legendary Daniel Higgs - frontman of the band Lungfish and visual artist. Higgs weaves meditative, casually ruptured drones using acoustic and electric guitar, banjo and jew's harp. "Music can be defined as True or False, with authority, as it is perceived into the psycho-spiritual- architectonic construct, that is, the [...]
there's onyl one way to find out.... fight! not really. aside from the mummies lp these are the only things vying for my ritalin-ed attention this week. in the blue corner... i was never a huge fan of lungfish on record. live they were incredible. but i feel this way about much of dischords recorded output. daniel higgs [...]
Daniel Higgs is the legendary frontman of the genius, brilliant, awesome, amazing, fantastic, gorgeous, poetic punk band Lungfish. He now has a solo career. Let's just say he answers his first question this way: Music can be defined as True or False, with authority, as it is perceived into the psycho-spiritual-architectonic construct, that is, the unique orientation and vantage of the listener (the musician is a listener). True music may behave as though False - False music may behave as though True. And True music may become False, False becomes True. I can [...]
After one listen of their earth-shattering self-titled EP, we knew we had to find out what makes New Jersey doom-drone trio, Batillus , tick. Actually, they don't so much 'tick' as 'rumble with the force potency of the Devil hangover'. From: Brooklyn, USA Sounds like: Isis , Godflesh , Sunn 0))) Website: www.MySpace.com/Batillus How did you meet? [...]
Hi lovers. Tonight is Sunday. LOST begins again on Wednesday. That's like, three nights! Holy fuck balls! RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. This week I am compiling something that combines elements of intense instrumentation with frustrated, [...]
Nathan Bell - Moonsblood I must be on a Lungfish member solo album kick or something (see Zomes ). The weird thing is, I've never really listened to Lungfish. I've heard them in passing but I don't have any of their albums. And I kinda don't think I could possibly like Lungfish as much as I like these solo "side projects." Nathan Bell is the bassist for Lungfish, but @2640 [...]
Zomes - Crowning Orbs I've been waiting for a while to write something about this Zomes record. I was afraid that my words wouldn't be able to describe just how masterful this fucking masterpiece is. But you know what? Fuck it. I'll just get it off my chest and profess my love for this bitch. The lo-fi looped broken record melodies on Zomes are exquisite and I want to have their babies. If somewhere down [...]
sup peoples? so, on sunday i am leaving for herndon, va for a week - which i hope will lead to a shitload of posting cause i am going to have a lot of solo hotel time to myself. i used to be a huge fan of june of '44 and here they are playing on 6.27.95 @ butchertown pub in louisville. its a super nice recording, although the vocals are buried for the most part. june of 44 were never really about the vocal anyway, in my opinion. dont know who june of 44 is? read the [...]
This weeks hangover mix comes from UK band Lords , Lords consists of Chris Summerlin (Reynolds, Wolves! (of Greece), Philip Welding (Wolves! (of Greece)) and Elvin Beetham Wallace. They play a sort of post-hardcore or beefheart-esque take on ROCK. Bassy but yet bassless.They are hot garbage. check out the tracklisting in the read more 01 Tren Brothers - Gold Star Berlin 02 Tinariwen - Mano Dayak 03 Human Bell - A Change In Fortunes 04 Neil Young - Harvest 05 Jimi Hendrix - May This Be Love 06 Lungfish - Oppress Yourself 07 Toots [...]
Philosopher-punk. Few bands could even come close to warranting that designation. Lungfish is one of them. Forged in the fires of Baltimore, circa 1988, slamming out album after album of intense, mesmerizing and primitive post-punk laden with lyrics that oscillate between poetry and manifesto. There is unquestionably a strict, formulaic approach Lungfish have intentionally implemented in their music. Simple, repetitive rhythms and melodies are formed from lumbering guitar and bass lines. They present a cyclic sound that feels as natural and dependable as day progressing to night and back again. Each song with a familiar-yet-distinct, enthralling [...]
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