When Billie Ray Martin told Stephen Mallinder she had just finished the job of selling out Cabaret Voltaire to disco, he burst out laughing. The legendary head of famed electronic band Cabaret Voltaire saw no reason to stop her. Instead, he agreed to deliver his first vocal performance in years on Billie's cover of the Cabs' song The Crackdown . Produced by top Berlin tech-house act Maertini Broes, this production brings Billie Ray Martin back to her cutting-edge house music roots. Second in line to be out-discoed was the song Just Fascination . This [...]
L.A. RECORD is happy to team up with the Academy, WESC and Crush Brothers to present this all-day-til-last-call event in downtown Long Beach at the Basement with L.A. RECORD alums like Dead Meadow, Rainbow Arabia, Restavrant, 60 Watt Kid, Scotty Coats and our superhuman Cha Cha buddy DJ Pubes plus many more! Stay tuned for [...]
L.A. RECORD is happy to team up with the Academy, WESC and Crush Brothers to present this all-day-til-last-call event in downtown Long Beach at the Basement with L.A. RECORD alums like Dead Meadow, Rainbow Arabia, Restavrant, 60 Watt Kid, Scotty Coats and our superhuman Cha Cha buddy DJ Pubes plus many more! Stay tuned for [...]
Last month, on the Atlanta, GA stop on the esteemed NIN/Jane's Addiction tour going on right now, Trent Reznor and the boys called on the indie poet laureate Saul Williams to help with vocal duties during "Survivalism", from the Nine Inch Nails disc Year Zero . Please enjoy life for the next five minutes and change. You can tell that NIN and Mr Williams did. The tour stopped at NY's Jones Beach last night and they'll be hitting Columbia, MD's Merriweather Post Pavillion tomorrow. (mp3) Nine Inch [...]
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In the decade after 1994's The Downward Spiral made Nine Inch Nails a household name, Trent Reznor cultivated a reputation as a reclusive perfectionist of nearly Chinese Democracy -level procrastination, releasing just one bloated double album, 1999's The Fragile . And though 2005's With Teeth hinted at a leaner and more workmanlike model of NIN, nobody could've predicted the accelerated pace at which Reznor would begin releasing music after completing his Interscope contract. In March, the instrumental double album Ghosts I-IV was dropped [...]
I just got my grubby mitts on the Soft Hands ' new album, Hours Pass By , that comes out next Tuesday, October 21st on the Long Beach label, Fidotrust Records . My previous experience with the band has been limited to a few mp3s I was able cull from the interwebs and a frighteningly good performance at The Prospector which I documented for the OC Weekly's Heard Mentality blog. It was in that review that I described their sound as a "hyperactive Talking Heads-meets-Wire" and correctly surmised the only three songs that I had [...]
Photography by Tsuru Mixtape Project No. 1, a song for each letter of the alphabet. The reason for the season? You ever play your ipod in alphabetical order by song and notice that the mix ain't too shabby? Well, we created a mixtape with you in mind. Is the idea the most original? I don't know, but the results are fucking amazing! Each member posted a single song, in order, and 26 songs later, BLAM-O! Awesome mixtape! New, old, vinyl, digital, all covered. [...]
The artistic world of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails may be expanding to a new platform. A report from the LA Times states that a TV maxi-series may be in the works. Reznor has been talking with HBO in the hopes of producing a two year long series that will thoroughly complete the saga of Nine Inch Nails' concept album Year Zero . "[I considered a graphic novel.] That was the route we were going to go with initially. We talked to a [...]
I used to live with a bunch of dudes in Long Beach who make really amazing music , but they tend to stick to a single genre, so I was really surprised when I went back to the house after I'd moved out, walked in like I still lived there, and heard something new-and aurally phenomenal-coming from the downstairs bedroom. Turned out to be a new addition to the house - another Mike - doing what he does, alone in his room. I fell in LOVE with it. Dude was producing sounds that reminded me of all that was [...]
She must break a lot of hearts with that voice. We saw Lili De La Mora perform at Timbrespace a few years ago after being quite taken with her gentle folk style that had us recalling the fragile tone of Harriet Wheeler, Karen Peris, Kristín Valtýsdóttir, and our very shy 6-year-old niece. She has a voice that's barely a whisper, more like the sound of feathers floating on clouds. Truly, you
English Version: November 20th, new NIN album. This time several artists have remixed the songs from Year Zero: Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D Trent will release this work in 3 different versions: digital download, Vinyl and Physical CD / DVD ROM. Right over here the tracklist, BUT you must check the goodies and extras in th Vinyl and CD version.... definitely a must have among fans. More info go to: NIN.COM Versión en Español: 20 de Noviembre, nuevo disco [...]
It's been almost a year since we last featured Los Angeles area musician Lili De La Mora with a project in which she contributed her beautiful vocals for experimental artist 11hz Robot [June 1, 2006 review + download]. After receiving a nice message from Lili last week, I learned that she continues to move forward as an extremely active musician since our last visit.
This is a tough album for me to review; it's out of my comfort zone. As I've said previously, I pretty much stick to my indie bubble, and I'm comfortable there. Industrial rock is not my genre. But, ever since I heard My Violent Heart , I thought it would be interesting to review Year Zero. How hard can it be, I thought? As things would turn out, pretty damn hard. So, a record like Year Zero is a challenge for me, not only to review, but to interpret. Both fortunately and unfortunately, [...]
It's been a few days since I heard NIN's latest album, Year Zero, for the first time, so I guess that means it's been long enough for me to choose a favorite track. So far, I'll have to go with 'Vessel'. Like a lot of the tracks on YZ , Vessels flows straight from the track preceding it, making the whole album seem a little like one long song. 'Vessel' is one of the meaner tracks on the album, with a nasty nails-on-a-chalkboard like buzzing kicking in every few seconds to freak you out, and a seemingly [...]
I'll admit it; all this hype for Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero is actually starting to get to me. After Reznor played it safe with 2005's With Teeth , I though NIN's best days were behind them. But now, with flash drives showing up in bathrooms all over the world, spectral imaging revealing weird hands, and explicit videos being filmed, I can't help but wonder if Year Zero can possibly be as good as all the buildup suggests. The five leaked songs would definitely point to yes. While Reznor still can't write an intelligent lyric to [...]
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