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Svarte Greiner
2009-01-21 20:04:00 Knive, Erik Skodvin?s debut album under the Svarte Greiner moniker was a milestone in doom music. Taking a surprisingly acoustic route, he kick-started a sub-genre as he used cello, violin and rattling miscellanies to conjure up blood-curdling soundscapes. ?Kappe? is his sophomore effort and continues Skodvin?s blackened underworld cruise, furthering his mysterious cinematic sound.Through incessant touring Skodvin has built up a distinctive live technique since the release of ?Knive? and it is this which works as a spirit guide on ?Kappe?. Travelling the dark corners of the world, Skodvin has explored every shadowed alleyway in his grasp, built up a collection of broken glove-puppets and potion-filled medicine bottles and trapped many a stifled scream in the process. Some of these disparate adventures were captured to cassette tape (?Penpals Forever?) and wax disc (?Til Seters?), but the most evil moments were set aside for this full length record; four fated psalms in honour of the... More About: Music
Kawabata Makoto
2009-01-21 20:01:00 A fine start to the new year with a new one from the ever-prolific Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple fame and Hawaiian shirt manufacturer's sponsorship. I think you can usually tell the quality of an AMT-related release from the artwork and this one looks well classy with its grey on white totemic graphic, if it's something that looks like it was tossed off on a ten year-old version of Photoshop by a stoned gypsy who's never seen a computer before then you're usually in trouble. Despite the fact that Rainbow of Love sounds like it should be a combination of two of the best AMT LPs (Mantra of Love and Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars) it's actually a serene and lovely ambient drone affair with nary a hint of widdly guitar excess, dropped in favour of mournful cosmic strings that sound like whales tuning up. If there's a planet out there that's made of a Heian period Japan where time runs in backwards slow motion they probably make music like this. On Blackest Rainb... More About: Music
Nashville Pussy
2009-01-21 20:00:00 True rock 'n roll doesn't require definition. It's self-explanatory and based on a gut feeling and the unconditional devotion to this musical genre. Nashville Pussy have celebrated their brand of genuine rock 'n roll for more than a decade, in classic style at times, surprising at others, but always earthy, raw and unadulterated. Band mastermind Blaine Cartwright (vocals, guitar), his wife Ruyter Suys (guitar), Karen Cuda (bass) and Jeremy Thompson (drums) spent three years working on their latest rock release, From Hell To Texas.In those three years, the band honed their most impressive recording to date alongside their many live activities, from Australia, Brazil, Japan, Europe and most recently almost a year straight with the Reverend Horton Heat all over North America. "We allowed ourselves this time to give the songs the chance to turn out as perfect as possible", Cartwright explains.The blistering results speak for themselves. Recorded at Willie Nelson's Pedernales Studio... More About: Music
El Goodo
2009-01-20 17:17:00 Hailing from inside the valleys surrounded by the majestic mountains of South Wales, five piece multi-instrumental group, El Goodo consists of the talents of Pixy, Jason, Lewie, Matty and Elliott. They were first noticed by the Super Furry Animals who, in 2005 picked up their first self-titled album and released it under their Placid Casual label and subsequently were their tour?s opening act, introducing El Goodo as a band worthy of critical and mass appeal. They have received accolades from both their home isle and the United States, touted as Artist of the Month by Spin Magazine in 2005. Besides touring nationally around the UK with Super Furry Animals, El Goodo has graced the stage with heavy-weights such as The Zombies, Dead Meadow, Preston School of Industry, Beulah, Essex Green and the Keys just to name a few, solidifying their rise as psychedelic champions.Links;El Goodo - CoyoteEl Goodo @ MySpace=Grease RecordsTeam Clermont More About: Music
Lonely Kamel
2009-01-20 17:14:00 Stian Helle(bass) and Tumblin Thomas Brenna(vocals/guitar) started up Lonely Kamel summer 2005. The big inspiration was the late 60's and early seventies with the heavy blues and psychedelia at that time. Lukas Paulsen (The Void) joined the band in February 2008 and this summer Espen Nesset (The holy Tongue and Cherry Corvette) joined the band as the new drummer. Now the debut album is ready and filled that heavy bluesy feel and and the groovie stoner rock riffs. You won't see many Norwegian bands like this. These days..: After several changes in the lineup the first couple of years, with Thomas & Stian still doin' their stuff, Lukas Paulsen joined in on leadguitar in January 2008, just in time for our Orange Goblin support gig. We were greatful then and still are! He is officially one of the Kamels... At the end of recording our debut album which is soon to be released, our drummer left the band (and the country with his wife & kid...). Then Espen showed up, while trying a few o... More About: Music
Autolux
2009-01-19 17:02:00 Los Angeles, as we all know and love it, is a fucking cesspool. It's seething with pretty little coke-fed nihilists with shards of hair and vintage fabrics jutting from their dancing skeletons. Skid row after parties are 10 times more populated than the actual shows, and the hordes toast caffeinated vodkas to a vacuous neo-dancepunk set by a B-list celebrity DJ. It's enough to make one want to get the hell out of town, but of course it's difficult to even afford a full tank of gas these days. So instead hitch a ride with fellow Angelenos, Autolux, on their debut Future Perfect. Their optimism is reassuring.In the first 10 seconds of album opener "Turnstile Blues", Carla Azar shames most every beatmaker with her ridiculous Leibezeit-cum-Bonham percussion. Azar's sturdy and creative drumming provides the thrust of Greg Edwards' heavily reverbed and distorted riffs. Meanwhile, Eugene Goreshter sings whispery lullabies of escape and alienation, and his rumbling bass rattles the bra... More About: Music
Vernon Trent
2009-01-18 14:13:00 Looking upon the art of Vernon Trent , one cannot help but wonder, ?Where does such a rich imagination combined with ability to capture the beauty of the human form originate??That question becomes even more beguiling after meeting the man behind the art. An imposing figure of a man, Vernon?s outward appearance betrays the sensitivity and perceptive nature of the man so apparent in his art.His journey to the art you see before today began as a child. When most children his age were playing games and attending parties, Vernon was honored with his very first photographic exhibition. At the ?seasoned? age of 10, his talents were already recognized by the local photographic community.Continuing to gather inspiration from the relationship between light and depth of field, he focused his evolving talents on the eternal expanse of nature and the man made wonders of architecture. His insatiable hunger for new challenges moved him toward all photographic subject matter.The next challenge to f...
Ghost
2009-01-18 13:42:00 Despite a seasoned aversion to hippies, I purchased Ghost 's gorgeous self-titled debut in 1993 at the Princeton Record Exchange, about three years after its release. Fresh out of an SST-dosed high school experience, the Tokyo band's crystalline chamber folk, swirling incantations, and tendency to play and squat in Buddhist temples, abandoned churches and caves not only signaled my entrance into a more expansive musicality, it linked them on an aesthetic and spiritual level with the apocalyptic folk of one of my favorites, Current 93. Besides the dream catching, the group's uncanny ability to turn new-age atmospherics into blistering psych transcendence linked them solidly with Magic Hour, another of my early obsessions.And though I'm still patiently awaiting the collaboration with David Tibet (who, interestingly enough, is currently working on a project with psych pin-up boy Ben Chasny), I was floored in 1995 when Ghost and Magic Hour went on tour in the U.S. and Japan. To my ea... More About: Music
The Yellow Moon Band
2009-01-17 12:01:00 In these days of anything goes, it is perhaps no surprise that this highly enjoyable album features both ex-Dodgy drummer Mathew Priest and Jo Bartlett and Danny Hagan of arch folkies/Green Man Festival founders It's Jo And Danny. The brainchild of the latter, the wonderfully named The Yellow Moon Band is rounded out by Rudy Carroll, guitarist and occasional collaborator.Following several well-received singles for Static Caravan during 2008 comes Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World. Now, if ever a title spoke volumes about an album's contents then this is a leading contender.Setting course for the heady days of the, oh let me see, late 60s, The Yellow Moon Band have created a heady stew of groovy psych rock, folk and the occasional slab of Brit Invasion rock. All of which could be a mess in lesser hands, but the instrumental capabilities of the four-piece makes Travels a choogling joy.Opening track Polaris may start off with a gentle acoustic strum that sounds eerily ... More About: Music
Andrew Wyeth
2009-01-17 00:30:00 Andrew Newell Wyeth (July 12, 1917 ? January 16, 2009)was a realist painter, and regionalist artist. He was one of the best-known of the 20th century and sometimes referred to as the "Painter of the People" due to his popularity with the American public. He was the son of the illustrator and artist N. C. Wyeth, and the brother of inventor Nathaniel Wyeth and artist Henriette Wyeth Hurd, and the father of artist Jamie Wyeth and Nicholas Wyeth.Wyeth's favorite subject was the land and inhabitants around his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and those near his summer home in Cushing, Maine. One of the most well-known images in 20th century American art is Christina's World (1948), in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Link;Andrew Wyeth More About: Andrew
Happy Holidays / Merry Christmas
2008-12-23 20:30:00 Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas , meri kurisumasu, fröhliche Weihnachten, and a vrolijk Kerstfeest to all of you!. I think i have done enough on the blog for this year. That is why i like to end this year with some mind blowing Christmas acid rock, and some funny, catchy, rude tunes for you and your kids. If you do not have kids you are going to dig this one too. Believe me! I will be back blogging in the new year. Until then you can find me on the FORUM now and then, where i will drop all the good and interesting things i find/steal on the net. And remember i do like comments overhere people, tell me if you like the things you see and hear. Peace and Happy Holidays / Merry Christmas! mr.AJust in time for Xmas! Rare early '70s Brain release in official fold out CD digi-pak form, featuring bands playing Christmas related material. Don't let this put you off. This is a collection of mind blowing acid rock and progressive mayhem. Marcel's "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" is absolu... More About: News , Music
Linus Pauling Quartet
2008-12-23 20:17:00 Damn. I'll admit it: I may've been a bit hard on the Linus Pauling crew over the years. I've always liked the guys, definitely, they've always seemed nice and friendly and all that, and they've been supportive of the Houston scene since before I even came here. But I could never really get into the music -- it always seemed a bit overlong, a bit too goofy, a bit too weird-for-weird's-sake, y'know?These days, though, I find myself warming to the band's laidback-but-still-roaring psych-rock sound, and I can't quite put my finger on why. Is it that I'm growing to appreciate this sort of psych more as I get older? Nah; I still rarely have the patience to sit through an album's worth of noodly, blunt-worthy jams. Heck, if anything, I was more into the spacier, more psychedelic stuff back in college, when I could just bliss out on the dorm-room floor for a few hours at a stretch.Could it be that the LP4 have gotten that much better over the years? Maybe, but they've always bee... More About: Music , Quartet
No-Neck Blues Band
2008-12-23 20:15:00 Mind-blowingly good twisted improv from New York's No-Neck Blues Band . This new album is brilliantly all over the place, taking in a tremendous range of stylistic stopping off points, all handled with the utmost freedom and spontaneity by these seasoned psych-blues travellers. "Clomeim is an evolution, a vital document of change in The No-Neck Blues Band's 15+ years of para-musical activity. This pivotal recording is a creative distillation of the collective at a new and startling saturation point. For three rainy days in March 2007, the seven-headed hydra that is NNCK holed up in Black Dirt Studios, their newly outfitted recording studio in the foothills of upstate New York. With a discipline & a clarity of vision they've rarely displayed before,the collective channeled all of their energies into hours of recording live, real-time improvisation. After months spent sculpting and recasting the raw material, Clomeim emerged--a distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal how... More About: Music
The Great Sabatini
2008-12-23 20:13:00 Formed from the ashes of Violent Marv, this Montreal sludge-math foursome proffer disgruntled stoner metal rife with odd time signatures and thick, hearty production. Great Sabatini might be described as a futuristic meeting between Sabbath, Sleep and Meshuggah, until you reach the EP's jarring eight-minute-long conclusion, experimental noise number Scene One: Ombu Enters Vixen's Private Moments Only to Dissolve, Immersed in Obscured Solitude. Sabatini's three-pronged vocal assault brings alternating layers of screaming, yelling and outright singing; add to that the band's unpretentious, tongue-in-cheek stance and phenomenal album art, and you've got something worth checking out - or signing, if you're a label bigwig.Info stolen from; (HOUR) Links;The Great Sabatini - Burning WildernessThe Great Sabatini @ MySpaceThe Great SabatiniCD Baby: More About: Music
Glowsun
2008-12-23 20:11:00 Glowsun is a music band created in 1997 in Lille and its surroundings, north of France. At the beginning, the line-up is Johan Jaccob / guitar, Mickael Duhem / bass, Yann Duvivier / drums. In december 99, a first demo called « Inside the sun » is issued and is limited to an edition of 50. The band starts to play in festivals and gives little concerts in the north of France and in Belgium. In 2003, during the coming out of the second demo « Escape from hell », the drummer Yann Duvivier leaves the band. Johan decides to create an instrumental project named Kallima, with Mickael and Fabrice Cornille (drummer of the band Attack of the Mutant Camels). Kallima and Attack of the Mutant Camels are even sometimes together in the same show... In September 2003, Mickael wants to have a break and intends to devote himself to personal plans. But Johan and Fabrice keep on playing together.In the year 2004, Johan and Fabrice think about setting up Glowsun again. The real line-up will be completed ... More About: Music
Maligno
2008-12-23 20:10:00 Maligno was born in 2004, with the desire of every member in the band to go back to their roots. After years of experimenting with different musical projects. Due to their musical background the band decided to pay homage to the most influential heavy metal band of all time: BLACK SABBATH. During several gigs throughout the country the band decided it was time to write original material. After months of rehearsals and composing, Maligno finally finished 10 songs wich are captured on the groups first album. The resulting sound is a mixture of their 70s metal influences and others that each member contributed. finishing in a progressive but agressive brand of doom metal. the album was recorded and produced by maligno at la nave studios in monterrey n.l. MEXICO, and it was mastered by Colin Davis (Vile) at Imperial Mastering L.A. Maligno has participated in some of the most important metal festivals in latin america like: Monterrey metalfest 3 with blind guardian, U.D.O, Cathedral, Obi... More About: Music
Riccardo Boldorini
2008-12-18 18:11:00 Born in Milan in 1971, he starter his photographic activity in 1992 with the Murales in photography exhibit, a series of images on the walls of various European cities, Italy included.From 1993 to 1995 he collaborates with a host of underground magazines, experimenting on black and white as a means of impact expression. Meanwhile his exhibits, mainly in Milan, lead to The other Milan (1993), Portraits of protest (1993), Ten political flashes (1994). Some of the most esteemed magazines, such as "Il Manifesto" and "Il Corriere della sera" publish his images.From 1995 to 1996 he becomes part of the social photography group Fotoimmagine, becoming more aware of the surrounding reality, and leaving the most abstract experimentation. This leads to two group exhibits on current issues, racism and work: The dirty face of Milan (1995) and The voice of work (1996). Experimental exhibits include at the time: Warme Kuche (1995), Images of Grazzano Visconti (1995), Stone eyes (1995), Everyday lif...
Teeth Mountain
2008-12-18 18:10:00 You've heard this one before: A group of young (and more than likely college-educated) white people get together, pile instruments in a heap, and share a one-track mind to home, sweet, Om. Teeth Mountain 's mixed-bag lineup doesn't re-invent the drum circle, but its members--listed as Andrew Burt, Andrew Bernstein, Greg Fox, Greg St. Pierre, Max Eisenberg, Max Eilbacher, Kate Levitt, Grace Bedwell, and Owen Gardner here, not all of whom played on the recording--do it with a sincere appreciation for the woollier end of late-'60s radicalism. Think long-robed cults coming for your children or, better yet, of the original incarnation of Amon Duul, the German commune qua free-drone ensemble that spit out five glorious percussion-heavy records before some members split off and formed Amon Duul II, a much more commercially successful group that kowtowed to the man by having, you know, actual songs.Right now Teeth Mountain hasn't drunk such careerist Kool-Aid yet, and this LP bristles w... More About: Music
Virus
2008-12-18 18:08:00 Everybody, welcome to a unique event in the world of dark music, as Czral the man with dancing hands comes back from the tomb to disharmonize grooves and to unbend spiky sputniks. So many things have been said regarding this already-cult-before-having-been-released album, so I think that if we frankly want to understand its value by sticking to its true content, its time for us to ignore every one else's opinions, even our very own, and simply go with the flow of the black flux. Thank you for following me along the way!To make things clear from the start: this is not Carheart part II, and to be honest, not much from that album has made its way into the new Virus album, except for the singular guitar signatures and bass acrobatics. One major difference is that the music is much darker than before, in that it doesn't use absurd and surreal themes to bring a befuddled smile on your face, but even more so to spring free a somewhat vague feeling of discomfort, of unease, of malaise, al... More About: Music
Clipd Beaks
2008-12-18 18:07:00 Filing the Oakland-based Clip?d Beaks into the 21st century noise-rock cannon is not the world?s easiest task. There?s not enough punk in them to put Clip?d Beaks next to a group like Pissed Jeans, whose Hope For Men made critical waves in 2007. Clip?d Beaks also can?t reasonably be compared to bands further down the harshnoise spectrum, like Black Dice and Lightning Bolt. The easiest way to describe them would be as a stripped down version of Liars, minus the overtly psychotic lead singer. Whether or not Clip?d Beaks follows in Liars? footsteps remains to be seen, but Hoarse Lords is a passable start.If you find Hoarse Lords? opening track, ?Melter?, to be unlistenable, you are not going to like the rest of the album. Beyond that, you probably don?t like noise at all. With dueling, discordant vocals, a heavy, monotonous bass line, and continual noisecore licks, ?Melter? sets Hoarse Lords out to be neither the most challenging nor the easiest of listens. Underneath the overwhelming ... More About: Music
Grouper
2008-12-18 18:05:00 With the label's hiatus well and truly over, Type Records follows up Peter Broderick's amazing 'Float' with a brand new album of midnight Shoegazer classics from Portland's Liz Harris - and it really is one of the most special albums you'll hear this year. While the filtered, tape-fuelled obfuscation of her signature sound remains, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill is far more resonant up front about the songs at the heart of her work. Opening track 'Disengaged' offers a segue from the cloudy, amorphous Grouper output of old and this current strain of more easily deciphered writing: it's a mass of mesmerising magnetic hiss and soft noise, with a voice cloaked in lo-fi haze somewhere at the back. Soon after, Harris' guitar and voice emerge, reverberant and phantom-like, and yet comprehensible. If previously you've struggled to make out Grouper lyrics, and wondered what's going on beneath that veneer of musty, degraded audio, 'Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping' offers you... More About: Music
Woods Family Creeps
2008-12-18 18:03:00 Outsider Brooklyn folk-pop duo Woods makes music so deceptively simple, it is downright frustrating. The apparent ease they have in making each hummable chorus paired with the lo-fi production is infectious. Each time their 2007 release At Rear House comes to an end, I can't help but be a little ticked off that I am listening to the music rather than creating it myself. It just appears to be so simplistic at the hands of the Fuck It Tapes masterminds that anyone with a little music training could be concocting these catchy verse-chorus-verse ditties. It's similar to the feeling you get when listening to a Pixies record: "Really? No one before 1987 thought of utilizing loud-quiet-loud dynamics in a three-minute pop-rock song? No one at all? "Obviously, it speaks loudly of the songwriting skills these do-it-yourselfers possess ? it's as if they reside on some outlaying branch of the Buddy Holly lineage. But it's not solely about the poppy campfire sing-alongs; they also have an un... More About: Family , Music
Kawabata Makoto & Michishita Shinsuke
2008-12-11 20:04:00 The Acid Mothers temple leader Kawabata Makoto teams up with fellow Japanese psych explorer Michishita Shinsuke of LSD March for this ear-melting guitar duel. It's an all-improvised affair with no overdubs, just fifty-five minutes divided into five tracks worth of dishevelled harmony, strips of feedback and a smart, restrained deployment of effects. Through whole sections of this record one guitar takes on 'melodic' duties, ponderously meandering through phrases while the other instrument summons up a wall of noise. There are other occasions where anything so ordinary as a 'note' is abandoned altogether, as on the furious whammy wrenching and distortion cloudbursts of the second piece. It's during these more searing exchanges that the duo's power comes to light, and you'd hope that this isn't the last meeting between these two figureheads of modern Japanese avant-rock.Info stolen from; Boomkat Links;Kawabata Makoto & Michishita Shinsuke - Basement EchoKawabata Makoto @ MyS... More About: Music
Catherine Alexandre
2008-12-11 20:01:00 When I was two years old, my parents peut a pencil in my hand, that I have never let it go since. At the end of my secondary school studies, I went to Art'School, where I have obtained my NATIONAL DIPLOMA of PAINTING. At the same time, I have trained and was awarded a DIPLOMA in CONTEMPORARY JEWELLY DESIGN.While continuing the painting, I learn to do engraving with a spanish Master, Alfonso SAURA, and I was for five years in making engravings for a Paris gallery. I specialised in the Art Movement COBRA, principally the artists Karel APPEL and LINDSTRÖM.Winner of fashion's design (COURTELLE CREATIONS) for ten years I was designing clothings and embroidery motifs for a textile company. At the same time, my paintings were shown at a number of galleries and Art Exhibition. Then, as a free-lance, I have for five years created original characters for CARTOONS (model-sheets). I have discovered the world of cinema and began to write scenarios. And later, novels. Actually, I paint, I write... More About: Catherine
Across Tundras
2008-12-11 19:59:00 As of late, Across Tundras' clever take on sludge and doom metal has certainly been appreciated amongst the Neur-Isis disciple bands. The band's previous record took a robust helping of the standard stoner metal ingredients and blended in dashes of country twang, vintage rock, and folk undertones to create a unique combination of raw heaviness with a western psyche. Lonesome Wails from the Weeping Willow, their debut release for Forgotten Empire Records, showcases the band's ever increasing attention to detail, as the trio's sound is filled out with a wide range of traditional folk instruments (mandolin, slide guitar, etc.). These elements, though present on Western Sky Ride, permeate each and every track, allowing LWFTWW to represent the bands most unified and fluid record yet.LWFTWW also displays a bit of a step away from Neurosis and Black Sabbath-type songwriting styles toward a sparser sound more akin to a blend of Earth and Neil Young. While the latter pair of influences w... More About: Music
My Sleeping Karma
2008-12-11 19:58:00 This is the 2nd CD by this German band that arose out of the ashes of the Great Escape. It is instantly recognizable as My Sleeping Karma . They are forging more of their own sound which is a mix of very melodic guitar lines (very similar in many many songs), with hypnotic grooves and some space. Like a more melodic version of Monkey 3, who clearly is an influence. 12 tracks (only 7 song titles) in 58 minutes so here we go..Ahimsa starts things off with a great heavy and spacey groove and the guitar line that is band loves to use. A spacey Colour Haze like track. Great track. Track 3, the title track is a bit more of the same until the middle section where the guitars fade away and the bass, drums and synths glide. The guitars return shortly and the hypnotic groove as well. Track 4 is a short piece with some cool drums behind the same repeated guitar line over and over and it leads directly into Asetya, which starts with some forest sounds and a nice delay added to the guitar line th... More About: Music
Hototogisu
2008-12-11 19:56:00 Another amazing project from Mr. Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Total/Sunroof!) and his Rural Electrification Program. One has to wonder how one man can be so prolific and continually churn out such amazing sounds. But ours is not to question...The disc starts off with what sounds like people playing ping pong accompanied by a shopping mall organ and sparsely plucked guitar, moody sparse and sort of whimsical. Track two finds Bower back in more familiar waters. A shimmering wash of high end harmonics and the sound of dripping water. Much mellower and dreamier than Sunroof!, all distant melodies, and guitar shimmers and delicate webs of feedback. Hypnotic and ethereally captivating.Info stolen from; aquarius records Links;Hototogisu - White Wind Of AutumnHototogisuaquarius records More About: Music
The Dead C
2008-12-11 19:54:00 After listening to The Dead C?s ?Secret Earth? it is safe to say that this New Zealand ?noise-rock? trio have successfully returned to their roots. Last years ?Future Artists? showed the band at an odd stage; instead of cranking up the twisted guitar distortion Bruce Russell and co. were busy fiddling around with aimless electronics and fart noises. Don?t get me wrong,?Future Artists? was an enjoyable experiment but ?Secret Earth? showcases the bands patented noise/drone sound while adding in fresh ideas as well.?Secret Earth? only contains four tracks yet the album spans just over forty minutes. Throughout the album the listener is treated with relentless waves of guitar feedback that sound like they are coming out of a amp that has been beaten senselessly with a baseball bat. On top of this vocalist Mike Morley manages to creep his way into every song adding a cynical, hopeless sound to the music. The record as a whole conveys a harsh yet accessible atmosphere. The music is raw an... More About: Music
Dan Ouellette
2008-12-05 17:32:00 Born into an era of activism, Altamont and mind-expanding drugs, Oullette?s youth was a mixture of old world values and new world sexual intellect. And while the visual indulgence of Catholic church lasted only a brief period, it left him notably scarred. He began drawing as a child. He found he could easily entertain classmates with his drawings of grotesque prostitutes rendered nude but for their high-top sneakers. Album cover art was closely scrutinized. Escher, Dali and Moebius books were always close at hand. Absurdist/surrealist Super-8 filmmaking paralleled his constant illustration efforts. A wealth of cultural diversity in combination with extensive hallucinogenic drug use and confused sexual deviation began to transform his disparate artistic experiments into a protracted an demanding lifestyle of self-expression. He grew to adore the cinema of Fellini and marvelled at Lynch?s ?Eraserhead? and Cronenberg?s ?Videodrome?. So rather than persue a formal ?education? in the fi...
Drive By Wire
More articles from this author:2008-12-05 17:28:00 DriveByWire operates from the sultry town Deventer; Simone Holsbeek-vocals &guitar ( ex-Cords, ex-Telefunk) , Alwin Wubben- low-down-dirty-guitar & slide, and Remco Cornelissen ( ex- Incense) beating the shit out of the drums. The band is recently joined by René Rutten ( The Gathering), who adds heavy-ass bassrumble to the DriveByWire sound. A throat, a buch of guitars, a set of drums and a bottle of single malt whisky is all they need to burn the stage with their heavy grooving desertrock . So how would it sound if you put Korn, the Carpenters and Madonna in a rehearsal room jammin together? Well it sure as hell won't sound as Drive By Wire. A beaten up 69 Dodge Challenger doing 160 through the smouldering desert towards an raging thunderstorm with Chris Goss at the steering wheel and The Stooges kicking it with P.J. Harvey on the backseat, would be the best possible description of the Drive By Wire sound...ooh yeah! After the release in april 2006 of our debut-album ( follow up i... More About: Music , Drive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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