
Bang yer head - Portraits Of Past The times i've listened to the Portraits of Past LP all the way through vs. the times i've lifted the needle after this song. The second song. KQED Equals Volvo to this song and nothing is as perfect. That, in a spate of masochism, denying myself the rest of the album, is enough. Things are as perfect, every bit as perfect, throughout both sides of that record, yet i stop after this song more often [...]

Vue, way back when Bellavista Temptation By Your Side Tom Verlaine Souvenir From a Dream Bellavista has a very storied pedigree, and if you're at all curious about the group, it's probably because of that pedigree - which is to say that this band, probably because of the capricious nature o' the music industry, isn't as high-profile [...]
When it comes to heavy metal, metal so heavy it could withstand a Cylon attack while housing an equally hellacious Satanic smackdown, you can't do any better than the Birmingham foursome. Has there ever been a better protest song than "War Pigs"? A better song about metal monsters killing everybody than "Iron Man"? Not in my world.
by Black Bubblegum DOWNLOAD: Portraits of Past - "Implications of A Sinkhole Personality" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sinaloa - "Seek Harbor" (MP3) Portraits of Past circa 1994 Before screamo was a filthy word, the fallen but celebrated pioneers Portraits of Past were blazing a trail and leaving a small but compelling legacy in their wake. Thirteen years after calling it [...]
Here is part 2 of the revised and reexamined Buckets Full of Emo series (you can find part 1 here ). This one covers (roughly) 1994 and 1995 and reminds me of a funny conversation I had with my brother this past Friday evening that went something like this: Brother: Okay. There is this great band that you need to hear. Me: Who? Brother: Why do you post garbage? You should only write about good music. Me: Who is this band? Brother: Texas Is The Reason. Me: [...]
Way before what teens today think of as emo, the term was shorthand for emotional hardcore. It was not a dirty word that referred to the lifestyle that gets so much negative press these days. Originating in the Washington, DC music scene of the mid-1980's, some so-called "first-wave" emo or emocore bands included Rites of Spring, Embrace, and Moss Icon. Then came Fugazi (featuring ex-members of Rites of Spring and Embrace), Jawbox, and so on from there... This is (according to me) a brief history of emo in music only. Yes, it will be incomplete in some [...]