Clann Zú - One Bedroom Apartment from Black Coats & Bandages (2004) /bombastic postrock whinecore/((“A man sits naked in the middle of a room of a one bedroom apartment in new york city and no one knows he’s there and no one’s left to care whether or not the next drop comes out. And the […]
Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies from XTRMNTR (2002) /hardball/((“You got the money, I got the soul.Can’t be bought, can’t be owned.Punk is not sexual, it’s just aggression.10-4 old buddies,Destroy, kill all hippies.Anarchy! disco sucks.Subvert Normality.”The street steams. Blood chewed to the brink. Right, left pummeled. Torn apart to be reassembled later by others. […]
Holy high hell! It appears this here site had its first birthday over the last few days. When I first started it, I figured I’d give up on updating it after a month at best. Evidently that didn’t happen, and I just keep coming back for more. Well I’m glad. […]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Hallelujah from No More Shall We Part (2002) /balladeery/((“The tears are welling in my eyes again.I need twenty big buckets to catch them in.And twenty pretty girls to carry them down.And twenty deep holes to bury them in.”The great thick fleece of the coat comforted me as I […]
The Go! Team - Ladyflash from Thunder, Lightning, Strike (2004) /psychedelic indie dance pop/((“The fantastic is the romantic; the romantic is the fantastic. We came to rock from 9 to 4.”Wooden slatted floors wave in the hot son of the tinny plastic radio grid broadcast. Dust particles silver and gold and dancing in […]
Well yesterday, with today as a follow-up, combine to be rather eventful days. Many things happened, many of which are important and deserve notice. I could probably make a point-form list of it, but that would look garish and out of place amongst all the familiar formatting. So paragraph-form list it is! […]
Flogging Molly basically sound like The Pogues with a punk band and more predictibility. That is to say, rollicking Celtic tunes mostly on the traditional instruments (squeezebox, fiddle, pipes) with strong rock underpinnings in the rhythm section.
The fiery spirit of Celtic music suits a marriage with punk, but I find the distorted guitars don’t really […]
Explosions in the Sky wsg Adem Live at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto - October 11, 2004
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Explosions in the Sky
Underworld - Dirty Epic from Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1994) /perfection/((“sweet in winter, sweet in the rain shake well before use. she said, “you never touch me anymore this way.” and here comes another god, like a buffalo thunder, with a smell of sugar, and a velvet tongue, and designer voodoo. but i got phonesex to see me […]
Edward Shearmur - Grand Central from K-Pax soundtrack (2001) /new age/((Delicate light of morning touches the towering grid of office windows. Cars sparkle in red and blue, the soft breeze flowing over them…a sweet spring stream washing over precious gems. Far below, the chatter of minute humans is drowned in distance as they […]