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Axe to Fall was an incredibly fun record to listen to; a band who’d long since figured out the formula that worked for them figured out how to further reduce their own sound to its basest elements and then barreled forward for 42 minutes straight without coming up for air, “Cruel Bloom” and “Wretched World” [...]
An entire Brain Rot series could be devoted to the music videos of Seven Sisters of Sleep. Häxan, The Holy Mountain, Lucifer Rising have all been used to great effect in past releases, providing a perfect complement to the band’s enormous, sludgy albums. Their self-titled 7″, released this past May, featured a bonus 24-minute video [...]
And just like that, another Chelsea Wolfe song finds its way online, this time in the form of a live performance at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. “Feral Love” will be featured on her upcoming album (not the acoustic one) early next year and it sounds like a lot of the electronics that were so [...]
The videos for “Scissor” and “No 1 Against the Rush” were solid, unique efforts from the Liars. It’s hard to think of another band that’d take the story of a man lost at sea and turn it into a story of nature rebelling in the strangest — and still threatening — way. Or make Los [...]
I’ve watched this video three times and I’m still not entirely certain what’s happening, if Native Americans should be pissed or stoked, if the Black Lips were clear on the concept themselves, if Ray Ban could get any more hipstery, if a homeless guy really could setup a teepee in a park and get away [...]
In a perfect world, Pissed Jeans would tour more and release albums at a pace that couldn’t be described as “glacial” or “slow as hell.” It’s already been three years since the phenomenal King of Jeans was released, so the band clearly has no intention to reverse that particular trend. In the meantime, awesome live [...]
When all else fails, go with puppets. It worked well enough for Mastodon’s “Deathbound,” so why not do it for “The Full Retard”? The video is a clusterfuck of drug use and sociopathic behaviors, and yet, somehow doesn’t quite connect as well as it maybe could have. Warning, there’s a nipple or two in the [...]
I was never much of a Beastie Boys fan, so the death of Adam Yauch didn’t drop me into brief depression as, say, the death of character actor William Finley did. Mind you, I had nothing against the Beastie Boys, — they were a hard band to ignore during the ‘90s and I certainly liked [...]
Beyond his guest spots with Queens of the Stone Age and fronting the Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan hasn’t had a whole hell of a lot of success with his solo projects, critically lauded though they may be. Bubblegum was solid despite the kind of awful drum loops, Ballad of Broken Seas was stunning, but seemed [...]
A video for Pigs’ “Give It” was released last week, and it’s a curiously bland video for a metal/noise rock song, consisting of random shots of driving around the city lensed through an Instagram-like filter interspersed (eventually) with similarly tinted shots of the band performing. While the music is solid, the video is half-assed, and [...]
