The Offspring have created a YouTube group as a gathering place for fan created video clips set to the new song “Hammerhead.” “We are excited to see what people will do to add their perspective and talents to ‘Hammerhead.’” – Dexter Holland Be creative. Be current. Be literal. Be abstract. Use your own self-shot/documentary footage. Find the right footage for… Read more »
Label: Deep Elm Records Released: May 13, 2008 Pneuma is an album that works more in noise than structure. Ambient layers and ambling indie rock rhythms are grounded by a more common vocal approach that alternates between whining and screeching and screaming. There is nothing pretentious about Moving Mountains’ deconstruction of rock though. It is experimental, but not simply for… Read more »
Song: Yet Another Movie / Round and AroundArtist: Pink FloydAlbum: A Momentary Lapse of Reason Gah. It’s like Phil Collins’ drum machine joined Pink Floyd. Fortunately, Gilmour’s guitar work isn’t terrible. I probably would’ve loved this when I was 16. Actually, I would’ve heard this when I was 16 if the album wasn’t so awful that I always turned it… Read more »
After 3 1/2 years together, Facedown Records recording artists Remove the Veil is calling it quits. Another Way Home, an intense and gritty hard rock album, came out last year and showed a lot of potential. The band will play their last show at Summer Side Show VI in Columbus, Georgia on June 7th. Check their Myspace page for details.
Label: Rhino Released: April 22, 2008 Love is a second rate band, but at perhaps the creative peak of rock music. They existed at a time when the old marriage of R&B and C&W that was rock n roll was experimenting with a lot of new partners. Love was a part of that. At times, the result was brilliant, making… Read more »
Song: KeyArtist: The Guess WhoAlbum: Canned Wheat A psychedelic take on the Bible, with a seven-minute drum solo. Because there’s nothing God digs more than drum solos, right?
We’ve got a new feature here at Rock and Roll and Meandering Nonsense called “Found in the Shuffle.” One really cool thing about storing music on your computer is you can hit the “random shuffle” button and hear songs that you’ve never heard before, even though you might have owned the album for years. “Found in the Shuffle” highlights the… Read more »
Having racked up a UK top 15 hit with first single “After Hours” and having sent the album that birthed it, Brain Thrust Mastery, to #11 on the album charts (a position the band like to refer to as “the pole position” owing to “the shape of the numbers”), We Are Scientists were ready to hang up their hats, telling… Read more »
Label: Lujo Records Released: May 13, 2008 The liner notes of Everything Is Alive sent me into a wonderful daydream. As the opening drum loop circled through my ears, I read the line, “We experienced the hospitality of strangers letting us spend the night on their couches or their floors.” I was immediately taken to a pleasant picture of the… Read more »
Label: Atlantic Released: May 13, 2008 You and I are about to engage in the most intimate act that a critic and a reader can share: the record review. But before the door closes behind us and I lift my shirt to reveal four stars tattooed on my chest, you need to know a secret that will color every word… Read more »