Anything Deathwish Inc or GodCity/Kurt Ballou related immediately piques my interest. Unfortunately, the fact that this one slipped through the cracks and I found out about Beastmilk through a Pantera anniversary issue of Revolver is entirely on me. Yep, the name is gonna throw you: What kind of music is [...]
Apparently Bob Mould wasn’t done with guitar rock after the 2011 “See A Little Light” concert retrospective event inspired 2012’s brilliant Silver Age. If anything, the just released Beauty & Ruin is even more visceral and potent than its predecessor really harnessing the power of the Du at points. It’s [...]
A while back I used to write for another site and did an annual column/dig on AP’s yearly “100 Bands You Need To Know In ____” issue (Mine was entitled “I Read AP’s 100 Bands You Need To Know in ___ So You Don’t Have To”. Clever, right?) Sometimes there [...]
Like a mixture of cEvin Key’s Download project, The Prodigy, and Massive Attack infused with Front Line Assembly’s immense soundscape, Los Angeles’ Slighter take everything that’s great about electronic music in 2014 to another level on their latest. Drum ‘n’ bass is alive and well in 2014 as almost opener [...]
Worshipped by Nirvana (Thanked by both Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic at Nirvana’s recent HOF induction) and Isis among others, championed by Tool, The Melvins have followed their own rules since day one. Whether bucking trends by incessantly releasing albums whenever they want (Two last year, the trilogy between 1999 [...]
Prong can do no wrong in my book and, to be honest, I’m just happy they still exist because there seemed to be a time where that might not be the case anymore (Happily, that reality is in the distant past). Not only is Prong reinvigorated after 2012’s jaw dropping [...]
