It's never too early to think about Halloween. What you're gonna dress up as, what parties to attend and what kind of candy you plan on getting or giving. Well allow the rock world to help you out in the candy department. This October, the band KISS will be releasing their own special edition of M&M's. Could this be because of the rumor that the new KISS album, allegedly entitled Sonic Boom , is coming out in October as well? According to the rumor (thanks to Blabbermouth ) the [...]
Probably my favourite Velvets track and perfect for languishing on a summer's day. The Velvet Underground - The Ocean Also worth digging out the 12-minute cover version Sonic Boom did with Sunray .
Probably my favourite Velvets track and perfect for languishing on a summer's day. The Velvet Underground - The Ocean Also worth digging out the 12-minute cover version Sonic Boom did with Sunray .
My eyes open. Nothing. Last thing I remember I'd been in The Great Eastern off the North Lanes, Brighton and on the way to the floor, still clutching some Corn Whiskey (in the jar)and dimly remembering some kind of A Hawk And A Hacksaw accordian leanings. Now, the place is empty and in white light and on stage there's a band that seem to be called The Burned Fuses, all dressed in white suits and Residents-style eye masks. Everyone else seems to be at the bar and strangely fixated on a bottle of Rum Elixir that has found itself embedded [...]
The 2000s have seen a host of wonderful re-issues; the Japan discography ,Tom Verlaine's Dreamtime , Danielle Dax's Dark Adapted Eye , the Wipers Box Set , for instance. Even still, there are many more critically important albums and hidden gems that could certainly stand to be re-released. Many of these I hadn't realized were out-of-print until I began poking around Amazon/Amazon UK for the purpose of this list, though you may be in luck with some individual sellers there, on eBay, and particularly through GEMM . [...]
Here's something that's just arrived from across the pond that's really caught my ear. Cheval Sombre is a one man band from Brooklyn who's recently been signed to scenesters Dean and Britta 's label 'Double Feature Records'. After sending recordings to Spacemen 3's Sonic Boom he agreed to produce the album and also ended up playing organ and 'effects'. The result is a swirling kaleidoscope of picked guitar, phasing, tremolo, drones and space echo vocals that evokes the sound of Recurring-era Spacemen 3. There's even a very well placed cover of The [...]
Here's something that's just arrived from across the pond that's really caught my ear. Cheval Sombre is a one man band from Brooklyn who's recently been signed to scenesters Dean and Britta 's label 'Double Feature Records'. After sending recordings to Spacemen 3's Sonic Boom he agreed to produce the album and also ended up playing organ and 'effects'. The result is a swirling kaleidoscope of picked guitar, phasing, tremolo, drones and space echo vocals that evokes the sound of Recurring-era Spacemen 3. There's even a very well placed cover of The [...]
I try to buy everything related to Coil / Christopherson / Gristle but 22 english pounds for an object that's more or less certain to annoy the fuck out of me?
Yesterday Sonic Boom hosted a pretty full afternoon/evening of free music in honour of International Record Store Day and although I wasn't able to stay for the whole thing, I did catch the first four bands. In the spirit of musical appreciation, diversity was the order of the day with all of the bands bringing something unique to the table. My vote for most improved band goes to Hooded Fang , whom I have now seen three times in only a few months. I always liked them, [...]
RECORD STORE DAY - SATURDAY APRIL 18TH. This Saturday is the Second Annual Record Store Day , which is the day that music lovers such as you and I are encouraged to take the opportunity to stop downloading and support your local record shop. Some of my favourite music-related memories have to do with spending hours perusing the local record stores, staring at those huge elaborate covers and stewing over whether or not it would be in my best interest to drop my hard earned money on that rare [...]
Cheval Sombre è il progetto musicale di Christopher Porpora, un giovane musicista e poeta newyorkese. Dopo aver pubblicato tre singoli di culto ("I Sleep", "It's A Shame" e "I Found It Not So"), Cheval Sombre giungerà all'esordio omonimo sulla lunga distanza il 28 aprile. L'album è stato prodotto da Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) e verrà pubblicato [...]
Big day at the blog office. We've heard two amazing records just today, which is amazing considering that all three of us are total haters - the new Lotus Plaza, and this mysterious offering from a massive cluster of trans-Atlantic musicians called Flowers of Hell . I don't care if no one told these guys that it's not the late '90s anymore and post rock is no longer en vogue and/or what the kids are listening to these days. Fuck the kids. The Flowers of Hell's Come Hell or High Water is one of the [...]
Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips are New York City's most effortless mod couple, a duo whose sleek, icily romantic pop can serve as both sophisticated art-gallery soundtrack and lovey-dovey fireplace music. In the four years since the breakup of former band Luna, Wareham and Phillips have pursued boutique careers in the best possible sense: in [...]
Wednesday 25th Feb - The Croft, Bristol The Silver Stairs show started all electro-acoustic, a bowed biscuit tin splashing the room in a slow and delicious rasp. A cutting reverberation of squealing metallic tastes, overlaid in a crisscross of directions, a collusion that melted away to a single violin. Exotic colours unfurling, tempered with the slide of the fingers, an Eastern European vibe melding to a drifting Caravanserai grain. Fragments looped over each other, reflected schisms a swirl, the slow smoulder of chant breaking across its [...]
Contributor Mike Bailey enjoys talking about records from yesteryear -- the 70's, 80's and 90's -- that influenced what's happening today. Thus, Gold Soundz was born. (Props to Pavement for the perfect name.) In this piece, Bailey takes a different seminal indie record every week and examines its significance and impact on the present. Spacemen 3: Recurring (Fire/BMG 1991) [...]
Sonic Boom brings his kraut-noise project Spectrum to Sonic Cathedral with ample support provided by Gentle Friendly, Banjo Or Freakout and The Jazz Butcher.
Marylou Flamingo. So, I wrote a fair bit about Soundscapes in-stores last week . Since that post, they've announced three new dates: Feb. 4th - Bruce Peninsula (@ 7pm - These guys are terrific ), Feb 10th - Hylozoists (@ 6pm - also a very highly rated band), and Feb 24th - Gentleman Reg (@ 6pm - [...]
Attracted to this because of the links with Galaxie 500, Luna and Spacemen 3 ( Sonic Boom produces) and I got a complimentary copy through the post last week sometime, causing me to turn on my turntable for only about the second time this year - I'm a fervent anti-purist, snuggle myself up to the degradation of MP3 and CDR, care not for the loss of crackle and sonic depth; mostly lose myself in music whilst walking or cycling and therefore don't pay the attention I used to to packaging and sleeve-notes... a loss I know, [...]
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