The Mars Volta have released "The Malkin Jewel", the first single from their upcoming album, Noctourniquet , out March 27th via Warner Brothers. The new song is...different, which is odd to say about any Mars Volta track. You've got parts of Pink Floyd, Marilyn Manson, Nick Cave, and Captain Beefheart. Trust me, this ain't your daddy's Mars Volta. Listen to the new track below and let us know what you think. Read more »
'Don't Blow Your Cover' lets you determine whether a band breathes new life into an older, established song. In this edition, Jagjaguwar's female Bon Iver, Lia Ices, covers Pink Floyd's classic song "Wish You Were Here". Read more »
Oggi vi segnaliamo Prog Metal , un libro uscito nel 2010 negli Stati Uniti e finalmente portato in Italia da Tsunami Edizioni. Scritto dal giornalista e critico musicale Jack Wagner, spiega le radici della musica progressive rock e di quella heavy metal , e di come questi due generi siano spesso intrecciati e complementari. «A partire dalle formazioni storiche del prog anni Settanta, come Rush e King Crimson, nel corso del tempo il legame tra l'heavy metal ed il progressive rock si è sempre più rafforzato, dando vita a innumerevoli e audaci [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Roger Hodgson , the voice of Supertramp, will kick off his Breakfast in America Tour next month, leading off with two sold out shows at the Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, CA. Fans the world over have been thrilled with Hodgson 's unforgettable songs such as " Breakfast in America ," " The Logical Song ," " Dreamer , " " Give a Little Bit ," " Take [...]
Fresh off the news that an At The Drive-In reunion is taking place, the Mars Volta have announced their sixth studio album Noctourniquet which will be released March 27th by Warner Bros. The album's 13-track narrative was inspired by '80s UK alt-rockers The Godfathers, Superman comic nemesis Solomon Grundy and the Greek myth of Hyacithus. How this will all play out is anyone's guess, but I have no doubts that it will be interesting. Read more »
So yeah. No sleep till Mood-I. Let's not bother with a long-winded beginning. Karnivool were amazing. They played a set that would warrant inclusion among the year's best. If it wasn't for them, there would have been death at IIT-B's SEC. Allow me to elaborate. The Three Livewire Finalists There's a part of me that really wants to do a set-by-set review of what these bands played. And it's the same part that would endeavor to run a metal archives-esque Orkutcore repository. I'm aware that these bands are both young and impressionable, [...]
Live Yes revisits what made them pioneers all those years ago.
I was never a big Emerson, Lake & Palmer fan, but this little ditty by bassist Greg Lake is, in my opinion, one of the greatest Christmas songs of all time. Check out the song above and the interview below.
When Amplifier gave us our first taste of their latest album The Octopus, live in London earlier this summer, it'd be fair to say that they blew more than a fair few of our collective tits off. Well, there's going to be a whole raft of new opportunities for Amplifier to blow an entire nations imaginary mammaries [...]
On its latest EP, progressive rock band Cynic moves its sound in a direction I hope shows up on the group's next full-length. WATCH THE REVIEW
Deep Purple: Chapter 2. The famed British rock act produced their second album of early career progressive rock back in 1968.
I wrote about Reform and their fifth album half a year ago. Now they've released their sixth album, "Reveries of Reform", in the shape of a double album, which seems somewhat unusual these days. Maybe their music style is not that common either today; jazzrock, moving into the borders of progressive rock, music that during the seventies fronted with names like Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Santana and also with Swedes like Björn J:son Lindh and Janne Schaffer. And even if they use synths, it's first of all from the seventies I sense the vibes, well with a refreshed [...]
Click image to download full album Sounds like: Wild Beasts, Apostle of Hustle, Real Estate "Kinnie The Explorer - Scissor Dance" What's so good? I just discovered Kinnie The Explorer about a half hour ago, so I'm right with you shufflers in discovering their fun new single, "Scissor Dance." Kinnie The Explorer is from the UK and are preparing to release their self-titled debut LP [...]
Not to be confused with the new age musical project started by Bob D'Eith and Paul Schmidt in 1996, Mythos was a German krautrock/proggy band formed in Berlin by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Stephan Kaske, bassist Harold Weiße and drummer Thomas Hildebrand in 1969. In 1972 the debut self-titled album was released on legendary kraut label Ohr, featuring a nice psychedelic mood throughout for all to enjoy - even oriental at times. Stephan Kaske played the melody from Händel's 'Fireworks Music' on the flute (very Tull-esk at times) in a rock-greets-classic version. The peaceful and [...]
Center of the Sun by EYE Some long, winding psych and prog rock tunes from the new EYE album, Center of the Sun . While these guys don't exactly put a new face on this kind of stuff, they perform it with a lotta passion and attention to detail. Plus, a lotta the instrumentation is pretty friggin' sinister. Stream it above, download it on Bandcamp , and stay awesome.
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Photographs by Kelsey Bennett For the French production duo, Justice, four years have passed since their last album and c'est la vie. As Xavier de Rosnay explained to SF Critic writer, Collier Meyerson, backstage before their performance at this year's The Creators Project in New York, "when you make a record the time doesn't matter if it took four years or four month or weeks to make. What matters…is just if it's good." Truer words couldn't be said. Even their disposition was very laissez faire; at one point during the interview, the ASAP ROCKY [...]
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Photographs by Kelsey Bennett For the French production duo, Justice, four years have passed since their last album and c'est la vie. As Xavier de Rosnay explained to SF Critic writer, Collier Meyerson, backstage before their performance at this year's The Creators Project in New York, "when you make a record the time doesn't matter if it took four years or four month or weeks to make. What matters…is just if it's good." Truer words couldn't be said. Even their disposition was very laissez faire; at one point during the interview, the ASAP ROCKY [...]
The second, unhinged and previously unreleased album from Detroit's Bump.
Polarizing. That's the first word that comes to mind when I think back on my initial spinning of the new Opeth magnus opus, Heritage . Sure, the die-hards will love it because it's Opeth , and Mike Akerfeldt could fart and they would feel that it was as if the angels of Heaven were singing enlightenment. Those other Opeth fans who expect every album to sound like the same guttural belches from the album before will loathe the very existence of it. Of course, they also loathed everything after My Arms, Your Hearse [...]
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