So, normally I don't look at other lists of people's favorite records because I don't want to be influenced, but inevitably I glance at some afterward and notice that I left shit off my list. Oh well. Ian told me about that Agalloch album, Marrow Of The Spirit and I thought it was good. The great, high-energy Milwaukee band Call Me Lightning put out a really good album this year too, When I Am Gone My Blood Will Be Free . Red Sparowes' The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer , Neil Young's [...]
Jul 28, 2010, 12:00am
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Mit seinem LP-Debüt liefert ein Berliner Langhaar-Quartett den Soundtrack für einen schweisstreibenden Trip raus aus dem Hamsterrad des Seins direkt hinüber ins Nirwana. Drei Jahre nach der Gründung hat sich für das Samsara Blues Experiment eine fixe Konstellation ergeben, woraus endlich die erste LP "Long Distance Trip" entstanden ist. Samsara bedeutet im Sanskrit "beständiges Wandern" und drückt den spirituellen Aspekt der auch an indische Ragas angelehnten Musik der vier Berliner aus. Der Blues liefert das Fundament, woher alles kommt. Und das [...]
I got to see Chrome last night at The Redwood downtown. Well, I saw Helios Creed playing Chrome songs...Damon died like fifteen years ago and I'm pretty sure the other guys were hired guns: Aleph on drums, Lux on bass, and the keyboard player who I see all over town who kind of looks like Eddie Izzard. I'm going to go ahead an say it was Chrome. Maybe you fuckers who saw the band in its early incarnation can really say you saw Chrome, but going to shows is a lot like playing baseball. What? Yeah, I said [...]
• Did you know that being superstitious can actually bring you good luck? I wish I'd known this back when I was in the height of my obsessively superstitious phase, during tenth or eleventh grade. "New research shows that believing in, say, the power of a good luck charm can actually help improve performance in certain situations, even though the charm and event aren't logically linked." Do you want to know what my good luck charm was in high school? I had two. One of them was a pocket full of tranquilizers that I never actually took, but carried everywhere [...]
Echovalve - Because of You It wasn't that long ago that we declared Echovalve to be the mythical Phoenix of rock and roll, having survived in their short career more adversity than most people will ever experience in a lifetime. Helloagaingoodbye was a raging slab of alt metal that roared like a declaration that the boys wouldn't succumb to their problems, but rise above, guitars held high, are fight back. And the did. Undeniably, the album was a success. More problems befell the boys however, and it wouldn't [...]
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