After 16 years, Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard decided to get back together, and combine they’re experience gained through all off this years of great work, to release a much awaited album. Dead can Dance – Anastasis Next Dead can Dance’s album it’s called Anastasis, and has eight tracks: Children of the Sun – 7:33 Anabasis – 6:50 Agape – 6:54 Amnesia – 6:36 Kiko – 8:01 Opium – 5:44 Return…
Peaking Lights (Soundcloud here) consists of Aaron and Indra from Rah Dunes and Numbers respectively, and they’re just the kind of band with an eerie, dreamy flow that just takes you away. Tape loops, weaving electronic pulses, harmonic voices and guitar, drums and synth, all of which make it the perfect soundtrack for walking through a haunted neighborhood, a misty forest or an abandoned river bank. Peaking Lights – “Dreambeat” (Official Video) from Urban Outfitters…
It was probably only a month ago that several of my friends and colleagues started talking about this band, “Snarky Puppy”. Despite my jazz/fusion background, the group had been completely unfamiliar to me. So of course the only thing that I could do was listen to every track I could get my hands on. Not much to my surprise, the collective had struck/slapped/punched me like few bands have the capability of. The clash of 90s…
Breaking news! Green Day released their first single in two years! Okay…maybe this news isn’t exactly breaking, but I just got around to listening to “Oh Love” off of Green Day’s upcoming album ¡Uno! the other day. The fact that I didn’t even listen to the song, released on July 16th, until mid August really says something. When I tried to think of a few words to describe “Oh Love”, ‘average’ and ‘meh’ immediately came to mind….
I haven’t covered the ridiculous “insights” of Dave Mustaine as I have for another nut-job singer/guitarist, but that’s because what Mustaine says doesn’t usually draw the ire of the Secret Service. Mustaine’s nonsensical babbling is just that – nonsensical. It isn’t threatening or otherwise worrisome. This time, however, Mustaine took his (insane) view of reality to new heights of absurdity, reserved only for Scientologists and OJ Simpson jury. He apparently believes that the recent shootings…
In June 2012, Rob Swire, producer and lead singer of Pendulum, announced on twitter that there would be no further Pendulum live shows and no current plans for a new album in 2013. Having been seriously impressed with their third studio album, ‘Immersion’ and seen them put on an incredible live show at Nottingham’s Capital FM Arena, I was disappointed to learn of this news. When asked why Pendulum were splitting, Swire responded; ‘We’re having…
Before the Beastie Boy Adam Yauch passed away from cancer in May of this year, he made one thing very clear in his will: no commercial can feature any music written by him. Along with other artists like Levon Helm of The Band and Tom Waits, Yauch was very much against the usage of music for advertisement purposes. While Yauch’s wishes may appear to be valid, but an article by Wendy S. Goffe in Forbes…
I don’t know who heard about these three feminist punk rockers (Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich ), or Pussy Riot, until February this year, when they performed a protest song named “Virgin Mary, redeem us of Putin” in Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, with their faces covered with some balaclavas. The song is about claiming Virgin Mary to become a feminist and banish Vladimir Putin, and criticizes the support shown to Putin by…
Last Friday, Lady Gaga, now 26, posted on her facebook page a picture with a tiny tattoo on her wrist, that seems to represent her next album’s name, which is: “ARTPOP”. She specifies, in a twitter post, that she wants “ARTPOP” to be written with capitals : make sure when writing about my new album/project ARTPOP that you CAPITALIZE the title, *its all in the details* good morning twitter! Lady Gaga…
Kimbra, the New Zealand singer-songwriter whose fame exploded after being featured on Gotye’s single “Somebody That I Used To Know” is in the process of a new album. Clearly, an open mind is apparently a big part of her new project, since she is working with Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan, and others. If you’ve listened to the Dillinger Escape Plan, you know that they can be, well, completely brutal. Dissonance, shifting time…
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