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Aleksander Balos
2009-02-14 12:52:00
In my figurative paintings, drawings and sculpture I explore the depths and subtleties of human experience by creating figurative paintings that reflect the undercurrents of archetypal emotions, ideas and internal struggles, and their effects on us and our environments.I am particularly interested in portraying the dualities present in all human experience. There are no absolutes in life. Rather, each experience is comprised of conflicting opposites. Each individual additionally has her/his own unique experiences. Therefore my paintings are ambiguous and not necessarily resolvable, offering an opportunity for reflection and interpretation by each viewer. The figurative paintings merely reflect a subjective understanding of the human condition, and my desires to explore that further. I attempt not to impose my own interpretations, but rather share with the viewer what it is that I am currently exploring in my art.I find human figures and therefore figurative paintings to be best suit...
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Magic Dirt
2009-02-13 13:37:00
M agic Dirt ?s longevity cannot be ignored. Since the days of jamming in a Geelong garage in the early nineties, the band has seen a million faces and rocked them all.So often throughout their career the band has been criticized by those outside of the rock scene for not trying something different, but Snow White changes all of that. The most obvious addition to the Magic Dirt sound is layer upon layer of Adalita?s vocals.The first single ?Locket? with a video filmed in one of the Sydney Superdome?s bigger empty sheds, is a catchy sample of straightforward rock ?n? roll, with little regard for the trends of the day. review from; Eve Jenkin, Undercover Links;Magic Dirt - Snow WhiteMagic Dirt @ MySpaceMagic DirtAu Go Go Records
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Stinking Lizaveta
2009-02-13 13:34:00
I go back to R&R thanks to Stinking Lizaveta?, a friend of mine said. Stinking Lizaveta, named for a Dostoevsky character, born in basements of West Philadelphia and tempered fifteen years of American and European tours has built a reputation as one of progressive metal?s most unique and captivating live acts. Actually the trio tells big stories without words, creating impressive images and plots with meaningful sounds. The LA times has hailed the veteran rockers as ?both polished and unruly?, in our opinion these guys have something really unique in their style: faith in R&R and a genuine search for power and wellness from their instruments. In their last album, Sacrifice and Bliss, you will find ?post-rock, metal, sludge, prog, stoner and doom with jazz styling and eastern influences? (as it?s reported on their official web-site www.stinkinglizaveta.com): and it?s all true. You will also find the sensibility of a 15 years-experienced band that is able to find the right balance bet...
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Sollubi
2009-02-10 19:17:00
SOLLUBI are a side project from the guys of FISTULA and RAPE X. They play a very original kind of psychadelic / sludge. You'll find the down tempo and the heavy sound of FISTULA with a psychadelic and noisy vibe made by RAPE X. They sound like a tribute band of HAWKWIND made by 16.p.107 ?The Sollubi are an untouchable caste in Arabia noted for their abject vileness. De luxe cafes are equipped with Sollubi who rim the guests while they eat -- holes in the seating benches being provided for this purpose. Citizens who want to be utterly humiliated and degraded -- so many people do, nowadays, hoping to jump the gun -- offer themselves up for passive homosexual intercourse to an encampment of Sollubis.... Nothing like it, they tell me.... In fact, the Sollubi are subject to become wealthy and arrogant and lose their native vileness. What is origin of untouchable? Perhaps a fallen priest caste. In fact, untouchables perform a priestly function in taking on themselves all human vileness."...
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Merzbow
2009-02-10 19:11:00
There is no need to argue: Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music. The favorite moniker of Japanese Masami Akita appears on hundreds of albums. The name comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' famous work "Merzbau," which he also called "The Cathedral of Erotic Misery." Akita's choice reflects his fondness for junk art (through Schwitters' collage method) and his fascination with ritualized eroticism, namely in the form of fetishism and bondage. All these elements constitute the Merzbow persona.Akita was born in Tokyo in 1956. He grew up with psychedelic rock and began to play the guitar in progressive rock cover bands, in particular with drummer Kiyoshi Mizutani, who would remain a frequent collaborator. After high school, Akita studied literature and visual arts in college. There he discovered free jazz and studied seriously the ideas of Dada and the surrealists (Salvador Dali remained a big influence). Akita gradually withdrew himself from the rock scene ...
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Farflung
2009-02-07 10:46:00
From Los Angeles, Farflung plays a high energy, often punkish brand of spacerock that is more like a stealth bomber than an acid trip. On this 1995 release the band consists of Michael Esther on guitar, Paul Fox on guitar, keyboards and synths, Tommy Grenas on keyboards, synths and vocals, Brendon LaBelle on drums, Buck McGibbony on bass, and a number of guests on keyboards, percussion, mandolin, flute, and cello.There are actually a number of influences here. I detect punk, early 70's Krautrock, and Pink Floyd sound explorations, sometimes all in the same song. For example, "Solar Electric" opens with two minutes of eerie, call to prayer chanting. Then it launches into another two minutes of space punk. Finally, after a quiet moment it alternates between a very Guru Guru Krautrock sound and more high energy rock 'n punk. Wild!The punk spirit expresses itself in other tunes like the title track, "25000 Feet Per Second", and "Hot Fluffy Mind", which also features some Primus soundi...
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Maurice Denis
2009-02-07 10:38:00
French painter, one of the leading artists and theoreticians of the Symbolist movement.Denis studied at the Académie Julian (1888) under Jules Lefebvre and at the École des Beaux-Arts. Reacting against the naturalistic tendencies of Impressionism, Denis fell under the influence of the work of Paul Gauguin, whose style was also much admired by Denis's fellow students Paul Sérusier, Édouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, and Ker Xavier Roussel. With these friends, Denis joined in the Symbolist movement and its later offshoot, the group of painters collectively called the Nabis (q.v.). The quasi-mystical attitude of the Nabis was perfectly suited to Denis's highly religious nature. In 1890 Denis expressed the underlying principle of much modern painting in the following often-quoted words: ?It should be remembered that a picture?before being a warhorse, a nude, or an anecdote of some sort?is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.?Later, however, afte...
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Blood Royal
2009-02-04 18:48:00
When you start digging around Moncton?s music history you find, as I imagine you would in any city, a lot of incest. This guy was in this band, but now he?s in this band with this guy. You know, that kinda stuff.Well, Blood Royal is that stuff.Their guitar player Jody was in Mood Cadillac, which is known in Moncton as the missing link between the Monoxides and Iron Giant. Their drummer Errol plays guitar in the Peter Parkers, amongst other projects. (I?m still waiting on the next Cedar Lodge show). And singer Mark and bass player Mathieu were also band mates in CLON.Blood Royal has just put out their debut Ochenta. It?s a heavy as balls slice of stoner rock that?s fit any fan of the genre, whether you?re just scratching the surface with Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age (like I am) or you?re in the deep and fuzzies examples of which I couldn?t even make up. I even managed to spot a Nirvana influence on 2 or 3 tracks early on in the record.Jody?s riffage is A-1 all the way through th...
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Tsurubami
2009-02-03 19:15:00
An improvisational trio centered around Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple, Tsurubami?s approach layers tidal waves of guitar over free-form bass and drums courtesy of Higashi Hiroshi (also of Acid Mothers) and Emi Nobuko, respectively. Gekkyukekkaichi consists of just two tracks, the title piece and ?Seiitenrinengi,? each of them around the half-hour mark. While thirty-minute improvisations may send out warning signals, in this case the band?s droning textural aesthetic is well-served by extended forays.The guitar is certainly at the center of this music, and Kawabata?s ultra-reverberating guitar does initially bring to mind another Japanese trio, Fushitsusha. But while the latter?s Keiji Haino explores mass and emptiness with equal fascination, Tsurubami?s focus is on mass and motion ? there?s space, indeed, but it?s of the outer ? variety, not emptiness. Dynamics are certainly at play, but it?s like a roller-coaster: it goes up, and it goes down, but it never actually stops....
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Hooghwater
2009-02-02 17:04:00
Tilburg (Holland), early 2007: having been active previously with Restless Youth (an act which left an impression on the town's underground scene, progressing from a mixture of Oldschool Hardcore and Punk on their demo and 7-inch EP State Of Confusion,to a more dynamic combination of Hardcore Punk and '70s Rock on their 2006 full-length album Light Up Ahead, issued through the Complete Control imprint) which had just passed onto greener fields...well, actually the band split up, all members continuing in music in several other projects...life-long friends Joseph Meurs (singer) and Chris Blankers (guitar) decided to continue their route in music together. What with their influence being the prevalent one in the subtle directional change in Restless Youth, their new project promised to be a positive continuation.Now, it's an interesting phenomenon that during 2005 and 2006 quite a few of the bands which had build the scene in Tilburg in the first part of the new millenium had disba...
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Crooked Hook
2009-01-31 12:35:00
Crooked Hook are a garage/psyche power trio from New Haven, Connecticut. Composed of Joey Maddalena on guitar and singing duties, Jason Bates on the drum throne, and Rick Omonte playing the bass guitar, Crooked Hook lure the listener into hypnosis with dizzying riffs and a relentless pulse. Bluesy passages lead to otherworldly places. Menacing guitar tones and punishing rhythms define a sound that conjures bad omens and blood moons, foreboding and haunting. This should come as no surprise for a band born out of America's Rust Belt. Their self-titled debut was tracked live to 2 inch, only over-dubbing vocals, to preserve the intensity and rawness that help define the band's crushing live performances. With plenty of shows on deck for Crooked Hook, and plans to record again later this year, one can sense the incoming storm on the not-so-distant horizon.Info stolen from; Safety Meeting Links;Crooked Hook - The Captain Will Be Your GuideCrooked Hook @ MySpaceCrooked HookSafety Meeting
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Marlene Dumas
2009-01-31 11:00:00
About Marlene Dumas and her art.My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions (with intrusions of irrelevant information)." Marlene DumasMarlene Dumas's provocative paintings of women, children, celebrities and people of colour are as psychologically disturbing as they are violently beautiful. Championing the under-represented classes, her characters occupy an unholy ground where the viewer's individual morality, ethics and adherence to ideological convention are questioned.Marlene Dumas makes paintings with no concept of the taboo. Racism, sexuality, religion, motherhood and childhood are all presented with chilling honesty. Undermining universally held belief systems, Dumas corrupts the very way images are negotiated. Stripped of the niceties of moral consolation, Marlene Dumas's work provokes unmitigated horror. She offers no comfort to the viewer, only an unnerving complicity and confusion between victims and oppressors."It was my first time in a peepshow so when the...

Crystal Stilts
2009-01-30 14:09:00
Following on from their great EP on Woodsist and a summer of packed shows and increasing anticipation, we are very proud to bring you Alight of Night, an album that more than delivers on the promise of their early singles. So what's it like, you ask? There is a definite flavor of Velvet Underground to be had, but Crystal Stilts' spectral avant-garage also takes in such far-flung references as: the spooked 60s Texas psych of 13th Floor Elevators and Red Crayola, the gothic blues/punk howl of Gun Club, the dark, experimental DIYism of early Flying Nun/Xpressway groups Pin Group and Plagal Grind, and a post-punk minimalism that brings to mind early Rough Trade and Factory releases. There is definitely a strong pop element as well, with the buzzsaw bubblegum of early Mary Chain b-sides and Meat Whiplash coming to mind.These are all just rough points of reference, though -- Alight of Night is far more than just the sum of the bands influences. From the twang 'n' echo of "Crystal Stil...
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Geisha
2009-01-30 14:08:00
Some bands really do all they can in order to confuse their listeners. Take Geisha for example. Who expects a band from Bristol, Great Britain to call their second CD ?Die Verbrechen Der Liebe?? The Brits are hardly known for their love for the German language? The accompanying information by recordcompany Crucial Blast also states that this band is from both Tokyo, Japan as well as Bristol, UK. Not really practical, had it been true.Anyway, Geisha has made a record that fits perfectly in the Crucial Blast catalogue. They have signed more bands making this type of heavy, often somewhat abstract metalnoise (like Nadja, Skullflower, Monarch, Grey Daturas). Geisha brings a variety that combines shoegazer as it was made by My Bloody Valentine with punkmetal / sludge or whatever to call it from bands like the Melvinss?Die Verbrechen der Liebe? can be split into two about equally sized parts. First we have five tracks, most of them fast and in a rather punk style (especially the drumparts...
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Beyond The Wizard?s Sleeve
2009-01-30 14:07:00
Anonymity has become both a gift and a curse for the blogosphere ? a ?gift? for feeding our hunger, and a ?curse? for, well, not informing us as to who is feeding us. Burial has the world eating out of his hand, picking and choosing various publications access and admitting truths like ?only five people know I make tunes.? Argh. And then there are the artists that leave you a message that reads: ?If you are wondering who we are, we will soon reveal all? we are planning some wonderful all night parties, we wear belts with huge buckles and we play the best music ever. See you back here sooooon. Beyond The Wizard s Sleeve X x? (And I include the fact that they missed out on including the apostrophe in ?Wizards? as part of the frustration.) Well, in the case of Beyond the Wizard?s Sleeve it?s not near the degree of Burial?s obscurity, considering if you dig around online you?ll discover that they are in fact Richard Norris, who just published a biography on Paul Oakenfold (?) and superst...
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Emeralds
2009-01-27 18:04:00
2008 was a big year for Emeralds. Solar Bridge (released on Hanson) garnered the most widespread acclaim for the trio yet and all three members?guitarist Mark McGuire and synth players John Elliott and Steve Hauschildt?continued their solo explorations with numerous releases that garnered further praise. What Happened sees Emeralds further honing their sound as they hearken in what is sure to be another fruitful year for the unit.No Fun ProductionsThe album opens with "Alive in the Sea of Information," an eight minute excursion which fits snuggly into Emeralds? previous oeuvre. The trio is unflinching in their alliance with the forms of '70s synth explorers like Cluster and Klaus Schulze, and they display their fine capabilities in that realm here as the soft ringing of Hauschildt's Moog gradually thickens with Elliott's Korg MS-10 bass tones. The liner notes state that "this recording is a collection of improvised songs recorded live to tape 2007-2008," an important indicator as...
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Mills of God
2009-01-27 18:03:00
Consisting of three nearly equal length songs over 63 minutes, Mills Of God 'Call Of The Eastern Moon'. To be specific, the music on offer here is a blend of Traditional Doom, Funeral Doom, Sludge and Post Metal. Some of the riffs carry a swaggering, yet slow, groove while others are like an aural tsunami washing over everything in its path. Some of it reminds me, musically, of Ahab, some of it of early Cathedral and some of it of stuff like Earth and Ufomammut... But Mills Of God manage to not directly ape any one of them.As long as the songs are, there are still passages throughout each one where vocals would not be out of place. It's not so far into the Drone realm that a vocalist would get lost but, considering the length of each song, one would have to write virtual short stories for lyrics to fill them in. The riffs on display here could also easily be broken up into shorter songs. But, as a whole, the album works quite well as it is.This is most definitely worth checking o...
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Gong
2009-01-24 15:16:00
Ever since its 25th anniversary tour in 1994, Gong had been sounding like a caricature of itself. Sure, the energy was there, the entertainment too, but the group was relying heavily on its past repertoire and, even in the new songs, still sounded like they were plowing the same fields as in the late '60s. Meanwhile, leader Daevid Allen obviously preferred to pool his creative energies into his U.S. group, University of Errors, whose albums kept growing stronger and more personal. And then came this bombshell, Acid Motherhood. Gong's lineup is here completely rehauled and consists actually of a merger between latter-day Gong, University of Errors (guitarist Josh Pollock, incredible), and Acid Mothers Temple (Makoto Kawabata and Cotton Casino). The resulting sound is heavier, wilder, and noisier than anything else Gong has previously released, but if you had to stamp only one band name on the cover, it would have to be Gong, without the slightest doubt. Despite Kawabata's mad psyc...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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
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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...
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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...
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