Are you ready to feel like a piece of shit? Gordon Gano was 19 when the Violent Femmes recorded their self-titled debut album. True story: the trio borrowed $10,000 from bassist Brian Ritchie’s old man and ground out one of the great American rock albums of the 1980’s, and certainly one of the most unmistakable. Gano’s age shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering how (sometimes disturbingly) well Violent Femmes encapsulates the iconic rage and frustration…
Eminem | “Lose Yourself” | 2002 The best Eminem songs are the ones in which he actually has something to say, and usually it’s either something that will later start a controversy (like “’97 Bonnie & Clyde”) or discuss some controversy to which he’s been connected (like “The Way I Am”). Yet, “Lose Yourself” doesn’t discuss anything in Eminem’s life. Well, not his real life anyway. Instead he opted to first take an omniscient view…
Anytime I receive a press release that labels a band “an extremely exciting arts collective [and] a perpetual multimedia art installation”, a tiny emergency klaxon in my brain – wedged somewhere between the hippocampus and the primary auditory cortex, so the sound is both unbearably loud and very memorable – goes off. The klaxon reminds me to regard the offending group with the kind of scorn you reserve for only the most pretentious of ponces,…
“The Unforgettable Fire” is, questionably or not, the first U2 album that managed to finally deliver a cohesive and uninfluenced sound. Upon it’s release in 1985, it topped every chart and solidified the band’s position as the number one rock act of the moment. It’s no wonder that for it’s 25th anniversary, The Unforgettable Fire went through a royal remastering, conducted by The Edge himself. Four physical editions of the album will be available, two…
“Nowhere Boy” is the most recent movie in the wave of deceased artist biopics that have been produced in the past few years – this time it’s all about John Lennon. This isn’t a movie that goes behind the curtains of his Beatles days, however. Instead, it’s a chronicle of childhood and troubled teenaged years that eventually shaped him into one of the world’s greatest songwriters to ever have lived. The movie sounds very interesting,…
Now, who would’ve thought that New Age are actually …mhh, weremice? Oh, and unlike the stereotype of werewolves on a moon light rampage you’ve encountered in books and movies so far, the band shed their furry skin and morph on nights packed with dusk-till-dawn lo-fi parties. At least, this is how New Age have been portrayed in their latest video for “Loosing Feeling”, off their latest EP of the same title. Cheese? Please! BONUS: [MP3] …
Don’t get me wrong here, I love the Foo Fighters, I really do. “The Colour and the Shape” is one of my all time favorite albums, and I’m a huge fan of Grohl’s work, be it in the kit with Nirvana, QOTSA and Them Crooked Vultures or playing frontman in the FF, but recently it’s like the band is simply making fun of itself, a shadow of its former glorious rocking self. I can perfectly…
I’m really failing, at the moment, trying to understand Anthony Schepperd’s directorial vision in Ape School’s latest video for “Wail To God.” I’m certain of one thing, though: it’s awesome! I mean, how can you go wrong when you mix in apes, violence, robots and MOUNTAINS OF BOOBS all together? You can’t, I tell you. [via Buzz Grinder] “Wail to God” Music Video from Anthony Schepperd on Vimeo.
Looking back at 2009, with only a few couple of weeks left in the year, I can now safely say it was a great year for music, and one of the first albums to come to mind justifying just this would be St. Vincent’s “Actor.” It’s serene and crazy, soft and loud, and just about everything in between, allowing for an eclectic experience that should suit almost anyone with an open mind. All of these…
They’ve had their fair share of difficulties, to say the least that is, but according to the band’s frontman, Scott Weiland, Stone Temple Pilots will be touring a great deal in the following year, to complete an upcoming new album. Apparently, the tour will stretch across the whole year, with short breaks in between. Most probably the first leg of the tour will run for a short period of time, before breaking into the post-album…
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