Infamously cantankerous studio rat/national treasure Steve Albini doesn't like to be called a record producer. He prefers the term "recording engineer." That's a dry, clinical term for what Albini actually does, but it makes sense that he'd prefer to be seen that way. Over the past few decades, Albini has overseen the creation of countless numbers of recorded artifacts. And even though he's been an outspoken opponent of the major-label system (and of other underground-rock heroes), he's known to work with just about anyone who requests his services, whether it's a major-label juggernaut like '90s radio-grunge rulers Bush or the [...]
Scratch Acid and Girlfriends at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston, Wednesday November 9, ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photo s/scratch-acid-girlfriends-the -paradise-rock-club-bo/
Shonen Knife Happy 11-11-11! Yesterday's brief snow dusting, thankfully, was not Snowmagdeon part deux , so put on your puffer jackets this weekend and enjoy the rock. We're talking about some sweet shows including Shonen Knife's 30th anniversary tour stop at Empty Bottle, plus Mastodon at the Riv and Panda Riot at the Burlington. Let's hop to it. FRIDAY MASTODON [...]
In the absence of new Faith No More (which seemed like it might actually be a thing for a minute earlier this week), Tomahawk has always been my favorite (read: most FNM-like) of Mike Patton's myriad side projects. If I'm being honest, the Patton-led collabo - which also includes Jesus Lizard guitarist Duane Denison, ex-Helmet [...]
This Friday, November 4, Brooklyn punk rockers Mr. Dream will take the stage at the First Unitarian Church playing songs from their new album, Trash Hit . After making their quick transition from the music critiquing world to performing, they're kicking off their Fall tour Friday night, opening for indie supergroup Mister Heavenly. WQHS DJ Aldrin Abastillas chats with drummer and producer Nick Sylvester. Aldrin Abastillas: Your band has a pretty interesting back story. Your members moved from writing about music to actually making music. What led you guys [...]
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To be honest I'm looking for motivation to get back into the 4 strings thinking. Besides literally trying to find the bandwidth to do it right with Eastern Anchors . I'm not sure why you'd need more inspiration than bands like Girls Against Boys for inspiration in particular when there is awesome tone, tube amps and distortion pedals are at play on every song. GvsB were a innovator in this spectrum of rock, however there are a crap load of other bass players who's bass licks are just as stellar. Kill the Sexplayer [...]
LaFaro From: Belfast, Northern Ireland Lazy Equation: (The Jesus Lizard + Therapy?) x mclusky URL: Website // Facebook Thrash Hits Verdict: When we first heard Belfast's LaFaro blasting out of the Thrash Hits stereo, we momentarily thought that the much-loved, much-unappreciated beast that was mclusky must have reformed when we weren't looking. But as we listened further, we heard a [...]
The Jesus Lizard - Mouth Breather (Live 4-29-1991 DC) (by BongHitBrian ) "I leave my home, I leave for a couple weeks I leave my home, I leave it in the care of a friend Don't get me wrong, he's a nice guy, I like him just fine But he is a mouth breather. I leave my home, I leave for a couple weeks I leave my home, I leave it in the care of a friend And in my basement, I found rainin' piss And in my kitchen, I [...]
Yow and Sims of Scratch Acid , on stage with The Jesus Lizard in 2009 ( more by Timothy Griffin ) And the first U.S. Scratch Acid show has slipped out of the gate. The band will play the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on November 1st . David Wm. Sims (also of The Jesus Lizard) previously announced that the band would do a string of US dates in November and December to accompany their UK ATP appearance, so [...]
When thinking about audience-baiting lead signers, David Yow ranks up there with likes of Tesco Vee and Lee Ving. The Jesus Lizard's new DVD, Club , captures the first night of the band's 2009 reunion tour and Yow started off the set with the 'joke': " What's the difference between Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson? About 5 hours " before the band launched into an explosive version of "Puss". Age hasn't slowed The Jesus Lizard and you wouldn't know by how tight they sounded that this was the band's first US show in [...]
City Gardens Riot on The Dance Floor film skate deck As hard as we may try to write about new music the past keep coming up again and again like unwanted overgrown hair and reminds me just how truly awesome things were way back when the slang "that was so 10 minutes ago..." never crossed our minds because the landscape of haircuts were so diverse from band to band and scene to scene. We were constantly consuming so much great music at such a rate that personally I think you'd be a fool to stay [...]
On August 2, Guster will release On The Ocean, just in time for its U.S. tour with Jack's Mannequin. The EP features six tracks, including previously unreleased songs, acoustic versions and remixes … The debut collaboration of Black Francis and Reid Paley will be available to fans on September 13 via Sonic Unyon Records. Paley [...]
The Jesus Lizard will be releasing a new live DVD titled Club on August 23, 2011 . It was directed by Matthew Robison and features the band's reunion performance after reuniting in 2009 after a decade long breakup/hiatus. The DVD will feature the entirety of the band's performance and will include a free downloadable live album.
One-time Chicago-based noise rockers The Jesus Lizard want to make it easier for you to revel in the glory that was their 2009 live reunion tour. The group is set to release a new live DVD on August 23 called CLUB , which documents the Jesus Lizard's first tour stop at Nashville's Exit/In. The 2009 reunion tour marked the first time in ten years that the revered cult rockers performed in the United States. And CLUB , directed by Matthew Robison, documents what appears to have been [...]
Just Keep Eating I guess I was a David Yow fan before I even knew what a Yow was. I was a lucky enough young hipster to have a great local record store called the Music Staff that put all the cool looking records on the walls. Discovered all sort of bands randomly this way. Some total fails like this major label band called Eat or maybe i picked that one up at Vintage Vinyl - the point being when you moved the cover it changed colors. Pretty psychedelic man. Anyway, here was this group [...]
At least one man - maybe scores of men - once said that music is not your friend in the immediate aftermath of a negative life-changing event. I don't know who said that (Thomas Hobbes? Kierkegaard? Sirhan Sirhan?) but he made a good point. Pretty much every song ever penned was done so to remind [...]
Local H at The Brighton Bar Long Branch NJ The duo tradition of musicians goes back a long ass ways. Local H is one the greatest unknown bands who are cocky in their own right and maybe a little pissed they weren't as cute as Jack White's counter part. Alas on album their records sound just as full as their live show. They started their thing pre-grunge in 1986 and have been somehow managing to keep bringing the music post Cobain. Tonight this working band will jam it out at Brighton Bar [...]
Strictly speaking, the Jesus Lizard aren't named after Jesus, but an animal which walks on water. Given that walking on water was one of the signs of Jesus being divine, having a reptile that can do the same trick undermines him a bit, doesn't it? I don't know if there are other animals which can do his other bits of business - a sloth which brings people back from the dead; a goose able to spin out a loaf bread to feed hundreds; a koala which goes into Cathedral Gift Shops and asks "so [...]
Documentary: It's a lofty goal to try and answer the question "What is Indie Rock?" and capture the whole of the late 802s to early 902s scene before the great music blog plague that is upon us now. Indie rock splintered pretty much as soon as it was born into all sorts of sub-genres. ...We had paper zines back then to rely on and the internets was not accessible to everyone - it was a discreet affair. Sure in there were music scene curators like epitonic who were listening, and many amazing [...]
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