2009 the Year in Music Welcome! You have just found one of the most exhaustive and well-considered lists of quality, new music available in 2009. We don't promise to have everything that's out there but what is comes in one easy-to-digest package ! Read on below: Ultimately, we consider this to be an A-Z shopping list (we have great confidence that any and all of these belong in your permanent collection) is a reflection of [...]
Photographic Evidence + Live Report by Sean Hafferty & Ryan Spaulding a packed house at Toad Cambridge, MA - 1/12/10 This Machine Kills Terror Best of 2009 Artist - Tom Thumb all photos by RSL's Sean Hafferty [...]
Anybody who thinks Tom Morello is all talk and no action has got another thing coming. The Rage Against The Machine /Street Sweeper Social Club guitarist recently took up a cause close to his heart, joining System of a Down's Serg Tankian in supporting the rights of Korean workers who've been under the thumb of musical equipment manufacturer Cort Guitars . According to Morello, Cort closed its entire Korean plant in 2007, firing all workers in order to "avoid paying proper wages...and fix deplorable working conditions." Cort provides equipment for American guitar giants like [...]
New England residency BEST of 2009 Artist Selection David Wax Museum by artist Alec Dempster The Persimmon Tree You are in Luck. One of the best live shows in the Northeast, David Wax Museum are [...]
New England residency BEST of 2009 Artist Selection David Wax Museum by artist Alec Dempster The Persimmon Tree You are in Luck. One of the best live shows in the Northeast, David Wax Museum are [...]
A good while back we promised to present a Taj Mahal retrospective . Here's a hefty payment on that debt. Although I hesitate to say Taj is my favorite blues musician because there are so many great purveyors of the blues whom I admire at the deepest and most profound level of respect, I can honestly say that he is among the top five. Perhaps the main reason he ranks so high is because he has covered so much ground so well. Today I'm going to deal with two of the first [...]
At the tail end of the summer, The Low Anthem rolled through Cleveland, a mere pit stop en route to Lollapalooza in Chicago. As we've mentioned throughout the year, this is pretty typical. Cleveland hosts the late Tuesday night shows as road weary musicians make the trek across the midwest. It's a rare occasion that the stars align and our favorite acts arrive in town on a weekend. As the trio launched into "To Ohio" from Oh My God, Charlie Darwin , time essentially slowed and location became a non-issue. To me, this June release seems as though it's [...]
by Paul Abruzzo Snow fell at a stairway angle. Cats crossed my path as if imbeciles on fire. Moreover, I was in Juarez. I walked straight to a hot bordello. She led me up to her room, the wood loose at my feet. I had a temperature hovering around zero. My best friend the doctor rifled through my wallet for the malaria. I was immobilized, unable to do or undo a single button on my shirt. Naturally, the police arrived. They stood around the bed brandishing nightsticks. A red light blinked in my head. A line of steady [...]
Guess because it's Christmas time, the "gift box" CD sets are coming out ... and there are a couple of live sets from classic rock artists that will try and grab your attention. One is a great bargain, the other is a bit of a rip-off. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are represented by The Live Anthology , an awesome four-CD set with 48 tracks encompassing the band's entire career. This set, available most places for around 20 bucks, is a bargain - Best Buy and Petty's website also offers [...]
The Wheel - Grateful Dead 6.11.93 - Buckeye Lake Music Center, Hebron, OH Buckeye Lake was one of the Dead's favorite venues for outdoor shows in the Midwest. Sadly no big shows take place here anymore, but Dead concerts such as this one add to the lore behind the venue. Estimates of its capacity range from 40-60,000, with some of the biggest and most famed lots of the early 90's adding to the mystique. While this show may not have a mind blowing setlist, it's full of sublime gems such as this one. Set [...]
Dollar Bins of the Future Javelin is the experimental sampled-based music created by cousins George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk who have been making music all their lives, but have been producing music as Javelin since 2004. They have created an interesting live set-up (that has seen them play the Museum of Modern Art in NY), in which they stack up colourfully painted boomboxes ("boombaatas"), allowing the audience to bring their own stereos to tune in to the FM frequency they're using, "fuelling battery-powered mobile parties". They mix [...]
Consisting of St. Vitus's Scott "Wino" Weinrich, Om's Al Cisneros, Neurosis's Scott Kelly, and the Melvins' Dale Crower, Shrinebuilder are the proverbial who's who of doom metal. Whereas most supergroups are rarely super, Shrinebuilder has been able to meld their individual style together seemlessly and create a rather remarkable album that would please metalheads regardless of the band's pedigree. What can one say about the supergroup that hasn't already been said? A group, yes. Super? Rarely. There are [...]
Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing : your look back at the week in Punknews . I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week... The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday This week's most popular stories So you [...]
On October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden, Sony Music put on a pay per view all star concert to celebrate Bob Dylan's 30th Anniversary on Columbia Records. Dubbed "Bobfest" by Neil Young from the stage, the four hour show featured a wide variety of artists performing Dylan songs. It was too bloated, but there were many highlights. Here are some videos (with some mp3s) of the best performances. Eddie Vedder was joined by Pearl Jam bandmate Mike McCready and Saturday Night Live bandleader G.E. Smith for this seering version of "Masters of War." [...]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/c wsteeds/ / CC BY 2.0 Best shows in Atlanta October 19 - 25: Tuesday: Tealights, White Hinterland @ 529 Art Brut, Princeton, Small Reactions @ The Earl Thursday: Thy Mighty Contact, Roman Photos, Club Awesome @ 529 Pinback, Bellini @ The Masquerade [...]
A First Look / New Albums of Note: by Nick Parker TOM THUMB - WE NEVER DIE DATELINE: MAINE - Tom Thumb was already a favorite here at RSL and a Boston mainstay when I joined the crew here a year ago. I had some catching up to do. On the night I [...]
23-year-old Frank Fairfield plays a more tradition style of old-time folk/blues. Its the type that tugs at the heartstrings of this native Kentuckian (and likely anyone familiar with Appalachian-style folk music). The music seems like it should be too old for young Frank Fairfield, but he moves and molds it like a grizzled veteran. Furthermore, Fairfield is a native Californian, from nowhere near the mountains that spawned this genre. I have to believe he's had to explain himself on more than one occasion. Turns out Fairfield's grandfather picked [...]
This month's Uncut Magazine has a list of their 150 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century so far (i.e. the best ones of the decade or noughties or whatever), and so far I've been unable to locate the full list online. Therefore I'm going to take the time to type them all out for you, and maybe even provide a little review or opinion piece at the end. 150 - Band of Horses Everything All the Time 149 - Ray Lamontagne Trouble 148 - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand [...]
Onto Sunday we go, and the singer of opening band Crocus was so dismayed at his microphone stopping working that he settled for simply screaming at people. He was still louder than the rest of band. Scary. Scottish metallers, Azriel , did that melodic-hardcore thing that they've been doing for a few years now, and while Holy State ticked all the right boxes and wore all the right t-shirts for a band playing Offset, they didn't match up to the unhinged noise war of [...]
On 15th August, Rapture Promotions put on an awesome gig in Reading for the 3rd year in a row. This is the review. Dig it. After getting off a completely packed out train to Reading, we wandered around following an obviously outdated map, which told us that The Face Bar was right in the middle of a block of flats. It wasn't. Then we spotted a girl in a Beatcast shirt so followed her hoping she would lead us to the venue (the whole event was being filmed by them) but turns out she was just going to [...]
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