i will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at. so said shakespeare. and course when iago speaks, it's meant in the pejorative. but what i dig most about thee silver mt. zion (and every obsessive-alphabetisers nightmare variation of) is that willingness to open up, holler fuckit here i am, here's what i am, jackdaws be damned. constellation described their last album, 13 blues for thirteen moons, as a big raw angry tender racket. a summation so succinct it rendered any review following [...]
The new album from Silver Mt. Zion is titled Kollaps Traditioxales . Below is a song. It's awesome. They're awesome. I've got to admit, sadly, that I'm just discovering the band's awesomeness apart from Godspeed! You Black Emperor, but both Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward and He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Room s have dominated my playlists since the start of the year and it's not just because so many of their songs are about disillusionment with corporatism [...]

Filed under: News , R.I.P. During his life and throughout his influential career, Vic Chesnutt always had a number of musician friends in high places -- he was covered by everyone from Madonna to Smashing Pumpkins and he collaborated in the studio with an intimidating list of esteemed artists that's too long to get into here. Most recently, his band -- in the studio and on the road -- included members of Fugazi , Godspeed! You Black Emperor and Silver Mt. Zion [...]
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Music is often experiential, but none is more so than that which embodies the hypnotic. Drone, shoegaze, post rock - they all often tell stories through notes rather than words, and with Tomorrow Becomes You Slow Six does just that. The band combines classical music with rock in a way unlike contemporaries such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The emphasis is comparably on strings, but the sounds are much more cosmic - more along the lines of Explosions In The Sky's post rock sensibilities, but with classical leanings and [...]
das neue album heißt "sage" und erscheint am 9. februar und ist damit nachfolger der 09er veröffentlichung "we were strangers in paddington green", damals noch unter dem moniker brent randall & his pinecones" herausgebracht: the pinecones - sage eines meiner lieblingslabel, nämlich la société expéditionnaire gab kürzlich auskunft über die bevorstehenden projekte, da wollen wir uns eben einklinken und das wichtigste weitergeben, zunächst hätten wir da das album "dual horizon", welches ab 15.02. ausschließlich auf colored [...]

Part 1: 30-26 Part 2: 25-21 Part 3: 20-16 Part 4: 15-11 Part 5: 10-6 5. Handsome Furs - Face Control (Sub Pop) If I were to look for a single word adjective to describe Handsome Furs debut record Plague Park I'd have to settle for "cold". Husband and wife duo Dan Boeckner and Alexei Parry's use of [...]
Et si vous n'avez pas Spotify, allez vous faire voir. Mais non voyons, la liste des morceaux a été reproduite tout en bas de ce billet pour que vous puissiez les chercher sur le Net, par exemple sur Grooveshark , Deezer , Jiwa , Youtube ou Dailymotion . Pour ceux et celles qui n'ont pas encore entendu parler de Spotify, inscrivez-vous en cliquant ici . S'il vous faut une invitation, demandez-la moi ! L'idée n'est pas révolutionnaire, la possibilité de faire des playlists [...]

Oh, those rascally name-changers! This is a band - let's call them A Silver Mt. Zion for simplicity's sake - that slightly alters their name nearly every release because they just don't care, you know? The man would get them down otherwise. I'm sounding mean, especially because I love the band. Whatever you want to call them, they're releasing a new album, Kollaps Tradixionales , on February 8 in Europe and February 16 elsewhere. If the preview track, "Kollaps Tradicional (Bury 3 Dynamos)" is any indication, the band is continuing to gradually move from their [...]

Welcome to the first New Music Tuesday of the decade (yay!) and I can't believe I'm talking about another decade, it seems like the '90s just ended in my mind, and this quick ten years has miraculously gone by, but let's hope that the o-tens (is that what we're calling it?) can measure up to the music that exploded on the scene in the last decade. It will be a tough act to follow. But you know what? It's starting out pretty solid. The Besnard Lakes [...]
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The end of DECADEnce may come a couple days late, as some of the massive pieces of writing I did last week, combined with a whole lot going on post-New Years pushed the time table for these lists back a little bit. At least it's finally getting done though, right? So what follows is the list that I consider to be the most important amid all the other lists I've written across the past 10 years. It is, after all, a grand summation of a decade's worth of fine records, these being the finest of the fine. Now before you [...]
It was 2008 that we first featured Halves in the pages of State the magazine, since which they have been quietly readying themselves for the world at large. Well as quietly as anyone working with a member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor can be. Basing themselves at Hotel2tango in Montreal, Efrim Menuck has been overseeing their debut album, due for release in March, and featuring a mixture of organic samples, strings, brass and choir as well as guest vocalists Amy Millan (Stars/Broken Social Scene), Katie Kim & Phil Boughton (Subplots). Far from being an acquired taste, however, Halves [...]
Popjaar 2009 was opzich een goed jaar. 2009 was eigenlijk het doorbraak jaar van Grizzly Bear. De band maakte met Veckatimest haar beste album, of in ieder geval het best gewaardeerde album. Verdere hoogtepunten, qua albums en persoonlijk bekeken waren de ontdekkingen van Barzin en Bibio. Enkele opmerkelijke namen in deze albumlijst mogen James Argue's Secret Society en Clipper genoemd worden. De eerste een dwars jazzorkest wat mij af en toe deed denken aan Godspeed You! Black Emperor en zer goed verteerbaar. De tweede naam, Clipper, komt uit Duitsland, timmert al even aan de weg, maar wist [...]

I MONO, Attivi dal 2000, riescono a generare un'impressionante sinfonia di suoni, nonostante le piccole dimensioni della loro line-up. Citano come punti di riferimento Greatful Dead e Sonic Youth, ma sono facilmente riconducibili al sound di band come Slint, Godspeed You! Black Emperor e Mogwai. Sono riconosciuti come una delle più appassionate e aggressive rock bands dell'ultima decade; dopo l'esordio con Under The Pipal Tree , pubblicato solo in Giappone e uscito per l'etichetta di John Zorn, la Tzadik, per il secondo lavoro, One Step More And You Die (2003) riescono a creare quella fusione tra [...]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (Constellation, 2000) It's funny, I used to be so obsessed with this record that I would listen to it in the car, something that I wouldn't recommend to anyone. I mean, the four near-20-minutes-each tracks spanning two CDs don't really lend themselves to a listening habitat most commonly informed by contemporary pop, hip hop and classic rock. There was just something so new and enthralling about Lift Your Skinny Fists. There is still something about [...]
1. Is This It The Strokes / RCA, Rough Trade / Gordon Raphael / 2001 2. Funeral Arcade Fire / Merge, Rough Trade / Arcade Fire / 2004 3. Turn On The Bright Lights Interpol / Matador / Gareth Jones, Peter Katis / 2002 4. Z [...]

While some of the choices may come as a surprise to those who regularly follow AtomicNed.com, the variety of favorites shouldn't be shocking. While I certainly have been much more of a trendfollower than a trendsetter over the course of my music listening history, it comes down to liking what I like and not always liking what the masses of respected music writers/bloggers like. I mean, how many other writers do you think have both Slayer and Taylor Swift on their year-end favorites list? 1. Danger Danger [...]

Before we get to the Top 100 Albums of the Aughties, it may be useful for you to consult this hastily made Venn diagram designed with the aid of MS Paint: In it you'll see that there were three criteria considered in selecting I Rock Cleveland's Top 100 Albums of the Aughties used in combination with the one implied characteristic all of these albums shared, namely they were released some time between the years of 2000 and 2009. First, the album had to come from a [...]

Like most people, I didn't exactly have the best taste of music right away. In fact it took a better part of this decade to figure out I needed to re-evaluate my tastes. I had to let go of my safety harnesses and start listening to music that wasn't in my comfort zone. A decade ago I was 16 yrs old...so back then I was listening to angry rock music and angry techno music. Basically I was listening to nothing but Deftones and Aphex Twin. While both amazing, no one can live solely on cheeseburgers and fries (as much as [...]
So 2009 has been such a crazy year for The Record Machine. I love this time of year. I feel like personally I start winding down a bit and get to look back over the last year and see how far we have come and start to dream on how much father we can get next year. So first off let me talk about 2009. We released 6 records which is twice as many in a single year then any year in the past. Every one of them are amazing and I believe so much in all of them and [...]