Archive for May, 2006
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Norway’s Hurra Torpedo is unquestionably the world’s leading kitchen appliance rock group. What does that mean exactly? Well, it’s fairly self-explanatory, riffage and, uh, stoves and stuff. The Oslo band plays a solid brand of rock & roll with just enough shtick to pull of a solid rock show. As if [...]
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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Delaware collective The Sky Drops take an unlikely hypothetical question and answers it. While sitting around, a group of herbal aficionados might touch on some musical intellectualism from time to time and question whether or not stoner rock can flow seamlessly into a melodic pop-guitar crunch. A hypothetical response to such a question could be [...]
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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Merely listening to Paris’ The Prototypes requires a number prerequisites, and if “(Don’t You) Forget About Me” doesn’t ring any bells with you, I’m afraid it might be a lost cause. The opening notes on “Je Ne Te Connais Pas” reminds me of something from The Breakfast Club, gutted, renovated and rejuvenated. As [...]
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Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Here’s some pretty rad (and sexy) videos from the Eagles of Death Metal’s Jesse Hughes & the Bikini Bandits:
Eagles of Death Metal feat. Bikini Bandits “Cherry Cola” (video)
Eagles of Death Metal feat. Bikini Bandits “I Gotta Feeling (Just Nineteen) - The Meat Lesson” (video)
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I was fairly apprehensive regarding the band to begin with, but the album is pretty good and I can identify with a lot of the lyrics (review link)…plus the band played a pretty cool live show when I saw them a while back (concert link). Here’s some new acoustic tracks:
Rock Kills Kid “Paralyzed (acoustic)” [...]
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Tim’s got another great podcast lined up with the theme being local bands. In an interesting turn, Angela from But She’s On Fire and I used the same city, Calgary. I haven’t settled down in one spot quite yet, and figured I’d go with something I knew. So, I went with a [...]
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The Dillinger Escape Plan have recorded a cover of Soundgarden’s “Jesus Christ Pose.” As a huge grunge and early 90’s rock fan, I must say that I’m a little disappointed as there’s little difference between the two tracks other than the lack of Cornell’s high pitched vocals. You be the judge:
The Dillinger Escape [...]
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Guiltmaker is a band made up of former Florida-based hardcore bands and fall somewhere in between whatever is considered to be emo these days and indie rock. Shaun Drees and Dan Radde conceived the idea for the band and began work in 2004, eventually filling empty spots with former band-mates, and as for the band’s [...]
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Scott, a London-born Vancouver musician, plays to the amusement of the ears within the context of a variety of genres. Before taking a seven year detour into the wonderful world of jazz guitar Scott found himself longing for more musically, and it was this search that brought him to John Zorn, Daniel Johnston and Negativeland [...]
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Seattle’s Mikaela’s Fiend is a two piece noise rock band comprised of cousins, Chris Ando and Donnie Shoemaker. A while back when the trend was to delve into the deeper extremes of noise and move away from the typical riffage and harmonization or hard rock and metal, along the lines of The Locust, I often [...]
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In an excellent lead up to the Rollins Band/X tour this summer, John Doe plays a great track, “Warms My Bones,” on IFC’s The Henry Rollins Show. (link)
John Doe “Warms My Bones (live on The Henry Rollins Show)” (mp3) (alternate link)
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Thanks to Sam for this one. Les Claypool is releasing a jam band mockumentary under the moniker Electric Apricot. “The movie features jam band legends including the Grateful Dead/Ratdog’s Bob Weir, Mike Gordon from Phish and Warren Haynes and Matt Abts from Gov’t Mule. There are even comedic cameos from Seth Green, Arj [...]
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I was unsure as to how the act would transfer to the live arena but Mike Patton has done it again. Check this performance from Peeping Tom from Late Night With Conan O’Brien here:
Peeping Tom “Mojo (live on Late Night With Conan O’Brien)” (video)
Peeping Tom “Mojo (live on Late Night With Conan O’Brien)” (mp3) [...]
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A terrific performance of a record setting single, don’t know what more I can say about it…oh, just remember to bring a shower cap…
Gnarls Barkley “Crazy (live on Late Night With Conan O’Brien)” (video)
Gnarls Barkley “Crazy (live on Late Night With Conan O’Brien)” (mp3) (alternate link)
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Ministry’s Rio Grande Blood will be the groups second to last says frontman and band mainstay Al Jourgensen. From there, Jourgensen looks to write one last album then continue to work on his new record label, 13th Planet Records, as he did with Wax Trax in the early ’80s. “The next one’s going [...]
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