Label: Sony BMG Released: May 27, 2008 Live at the Fillmore East was recorded only a little over a month before I saw the Dolls play in Baltimore, so I had a good idea of the potential this release had. Despite my feelings about One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This, I found the show to be… Read more »
(photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollface)Moving Mountains is currently touring to support their fantastic Pneuma album. JUN 21 – Yorktown Heights, NY @ First Presbyterian Church,JUN 25 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Loft (Chance Theater)JUN 29 – New York, NY @ The Mercury LoungeJUL 11 – Croton-On-Hudson, NY @ The Black CowJUL 18 – Bellows Falls, VT @ Kyle’s HouseJUL 19 –… Read more »
Check out “Filthy Flowers” from Thomas Function’s self-titled debut on Alive Naturalsound Records.
Label: Loose Recs Released: 2008 The Monocles tap into punk circa 1977 or so. Their songs consist of a single driving layer of frenetic energy, each of the three musicians moving in a single and deliberate direction at the same quick pace. Hey, it worked for the Adverts, right? And it works for the Monocles too, 30 plus years later…. Read more »
Label: Crusher Records Released: May 5, 2008 For outsiders, prog rock really seems like a limited genre full of musicians whose musical narcisism takes center stage, relegating things like hooks, emotion and all things rock n roll to the background. That may be true to some extent, but prog has also expanded rock’s palette in many ways. A band like… Read more »
Label: Parks and Records Released: Spring/Summer 2008 About six or seven years ago, I bought a 7″ on whim. It was only a few bucks and on colored vinyl, so I couldn’t go wrong. Still nothing prepared me for what I was about to hear. That 7″ was Rum Diary’s Mileage EP and the title song so rejuvenated my interest… Read more »
Song: Love in an Elevator / Shut the DoorArtist: Aerosmith / FugaziAlbum: Pump / Repeater I’m not a Fugazi fan, but it’s amazing how good “Shut the Door” sounds after enduring the first 27 seconds of “Love in an Elevator.”
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS ANNOUNCE BEST OF COLLECTION “BROTHERHOOD” RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 2 NEW DIGITAL SINGLE: “MIDNIGHT MADNESS” RELEASED ON AUGUST 19 Following their fifth consecutive UK number 1 album last year, the GRAMMY® award winning We Are The Night (Best Electronic/Dance Album), The Chemical Brothers return with Brotherhood a Best Of collection with a kick and a twist, set for… Read more »
Label: Facedown Records Released: May 27, 2008 The metallic hardcore that Means offer on To Keep Me From Sinking has had a lot of practitioners over the last two decades or so and as expected, some do it better than others. The better bands are either tighter, more intense or occasionally even more creative. Means can compete with the best… Read more »
Label: Facedown Records Released: June 24, 2008 Can’t Fight Robots, the debut album from Arkansas’ Take It Back, finds a good mix between crunch and melody. It draws heavily on bands that defined the punk rock of the 90s like Pennywise and (ironically) Bad Religion and thickens that sound up with more hardcore tendencies. The vocals have a gritty power… Read more »