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Archive for January, 2007

Spank Rock on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

My only contact with Spank Rock until now has been through a variety of hipsters’ year end lists, many of which touted the group as hip hop’s missing link. Whatever they do they sound pretty good doing it - their sound comprised of disco styled toasting over upbeat grooves with a hint of Bootsy [...]

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Annuals on Late Night with Conan O’Brien

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Thanks to Connor for posting the video of Annuals’ recent appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The band masterfully played its song “Carry Around,” but just as Connor did I question its performance selection; why play “Carry Around” when the band could have stunned first time listeners with a song like “Brother” (which [...]

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Slayer on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Slayer played the band’s first network television spot last Friday on Jimmy Kimmel Live in front of an audience of over one thousand fans. Though the band’s latest politically fueled album Christ Illusion has sold only 150k albums to date the band’s following seems stronger now than ever with its recently reunited original line-up.
Fans [...]

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Video Retrospective: White Zombie

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Rob Zombie recently commented on a box set that he’s curating which will feature “everything we ever recorded;” with the ‘we’ being White Zombie, of course. While this seems entirely superfluous on the surface, the band releasing only three major label albums, one being a remix album, there is a colossal amount of material [...]

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Last Friday Billboard reported that Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello hinted at a possible reunion of his former band Rage Against the Machine at this year’s Coachella Festival. Quickly coming off the heels of the rumor came the L.A. Times which reported that “(Rage Against the Machine) will reunite after a seven-year lull for one [...]

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Nine Inch Nails: Album, DVD & Tour Updates

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Nine Inch Nail’s 2005 album, With Teeth, garnered a great deal of attention as its release ended a five year wait following 1999’s acclaimed The Fragile (which was also released a half decade after the group’s previous album).

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Remembering Bam Bam Bigelow

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Though never achieving the super-stardom of The Undertaker, Ultimate Warrior or Hulk Hogan, Scott “Bam Bam” Bigelow represented something of superhero status for a generation of young wrestling fan; a generation of fan including myself. And as they grew up and moved away from their childhood heroes, Bam Bam, with his tattooed head and [...]

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P. Diddy & Jessica Biel at The Golden Globes

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

The popularity of your comeback album ultimately comparing only to the likes of Meat Loaf…heartbreaking.
The disappointing chart success of your recent single “Come to Me”…humbling.
Finding a reason to show up to an awards show which you have no business being at…priceless.

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A New Kingdom Come: El-P Awaits His Throne

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

“When I tell you this is tight, I mean this is tight” a friend of mine told me while discussing El-P’s upcoming release I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead; words of praise I could not ignore. When consuming the first few tracks made available, “Smithereens” and “Everything Must Go,” the casual listener is almost dared to [...]

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Pay Up, Here Come the Metermaids

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

Inevitable comparisons to Minneapolis’ Atmosphere aside, New York’s Metermaids blaze a strict duality, finding balance between their grounded roots, gritty rhymes and loveable accessibility. MC Swell and DJ Spacecaboose offer up their own “bad advice” on the duo’s 2006 eponymous EP which lures its listener in through the soft and rhythmic “Let it Rain,” [...]

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Washington D.C. indie pop group Exit Clov’s songs of “revolution, ennui and societal idiocy” are putting the indie back in… well, indie. Vocalists Susan and Emily Hsu refuse to accept ideologies at face value, including those of their own music community. Backed by the chunky indie rock timbre of guitarist Aaron Leeder, bassist Brett Niederman, [...]

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Kelly Osbourne: Papa Don’t Help

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Drowned in Sound begins the day with an interesting note of news surrounding a family of oft-tainted musical royalty, The Osbournes. What was eye-catching about the blurb was not simply the fact that Ms. Kelly Osbourne announced recently that the lack of commercial success surrounding her solo career can be attributed to her father [...]

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Banned in the US!! Part 2

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Banned in the US!! Part 1
Bleach, Bleachmobile, Bleach03. Whatever the name, it’s three Japanese girls from Okinawa (their words, not mine) who’ve been making an unholy but surprisingly catchy racket for years. It’s tempting to not take them seriously, between the model looks of their lead singer, the fact that they’re an all-chick [...]

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The band’s decade-long history is actually closer to sixteen years, but it was with the 1997 release, Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, and in particular the album’s single “Third Season,” which A Fire Inside’s sound began straying from that of typical punk. It may be suggested that it was with this album [...]

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Banned in the US!! Part 1

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

OK, so they’re not exactly banned, but this is a piece on recent releases by two very deserving bands that have nearly no presence in America and/or the UK, Magic Dirt and Bleach (aka Bleach03).
Australians Magic Dirt were actually up-and-comers in the US at a time. Once featured in Spin as a potential “next [...]

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