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John Coltrane
2008-03-06 10:40:00
<!-- the drop cap --> In the standard process of reissue/repackage, Impluse! put together an eight-track compilation of John Coltrane numbers together under the Spiritual title and theme. The job must have seemed pretty easy since just about everything he recorded for the label could be considered in the spiritual order. The real problem, therefore, became deciding which pieces to leave off the
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Diesto
2008-03-05 10:20:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Although this cacophonous, teeth-gritting, tumultuous trio is from Portland, OR, they sound more like a mid-'80s, Midwestern, post-hardcore, metallic noise rock band. The mix of shuddering noise, breakneck-heavy intensity, and Chris Dunn's screeching vocals recalls such bands as Crucifucks and Die Kreuzen, perhaps with large bits of early Corrosion of Conformity or D.R.I.,


The Warlocks
2008-03-05 10:19:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Los Angeles seven piece, THE WARLOCKS released their hotly tipped album Phoenix, on 14th July 2003 on Mute in conjunction with City Rockers. Released on Birdman Records last year in the US, the British release of Phoenix features two extra songs 'Red Rooster' and 'Isolation'. Imagine this, the members of THE WARLOCKS are crowded together onstage creating indelible images. JC


Arina Sergei (!?)
2008-03-03 10:41:00
<!-- the drop cap --> I found some truly bizarre photo-manipulation by Russian photographer Arina Sergei or is it Sergei Arina? What ever, it is awesome and on his page there is some normal/ straight figure photography aswell. Anything on his page looks very good, the only bad thing is it is in Russian, or maybe the bad thing is my Russian.... Check out more pics! Arina Sergei (!?)


Shit and Shine
2008-03-03 10:02:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Freeform noise rock hooligans Shit And Shine open this latest opus with the extremely spooked 'Creepy Ballerina', a track that plays the same game as all those horror movie soundtracks that involve treated recordings of children singing. That sort of uneasy restraint comes to an abrupt end pretty soon though, as the band tear up their fuzzy, dislocated instruments across


Black Engine
2008-03-02 06:12:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Conceived by Eraldo Bernocchi, Massimo Pupillo, Jacopo Battaglia and Luca Mai aka Zu,Black Engine is form/non-form. Shape deconstruction, harmonic and sonic plastic surgery.Too late emergency care unit. Malformed patient, but alive.Genetic manipulation of jazz, rock, dub, electronics and noise, itself for itself, thus , Black Engine. Self generating interference. Refuses


Dzjenghis Khan
2008-02-29 14:20:00
<!-- the drop cap --> DO NOT READ THIS!!! Out of the San Francisco fog appears... Dzjenghis Khan!!! Three brothers from three disturbed regions of the continent joined together under ridiculous circumstances and set forth to conquer the world and reign supreme as the most totally badass rock trio of heavy power!!!" Armed with crushing riffs and high on weed, Dzjenghis Khan totally ravaged the


Diesto
2008-02-27 11:51:00
<!-- the drop cap --> I was familiar with this Portland, Oregon outfit based on their “Doomtown 7” record. It was a damn fine slab of Amp-Rep influenced noisy aggression that also paid serious nods to bluesy doom and metal. I never got a chance to hear the second record but after the ass-kicking I got from a few spins of “Isle of the Marauder”, I somehow feel like everything is ok and I’m caught


The Gutter Twins
2008-02-26 10:03:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Saturnalia is the anticipated first album from The Gutter Twins , the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer-songwriter Greg Dulli. Saturnalia finds the axis Dulli nicknamed “the Satanic Everly Brothers” going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. Mystical, unpredictable, ultimately masterful, the album both embodies and defies


Jeremy Mohler
2008-02-24 04:17:00
<!-- the drop cap --><!-- the drop cap --> I grew up in the Midwest and I'm originally from Kansas, though I spent several years living on the East Coast. I attended both the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Inc. and the Kansas City Art Institute, where I graduated with a BFA in Illustration and Design in December of 2004 after way too many years of college. During the latter years


Lair Of The Minotaur
2008-02-24 04:16:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Lair of the Minotaur’s third full length on Southern Lord Records, WAR METAL BATTLE MASTER is a concept album about solving conflicts with a big fucking axe! Recorded at Volume Studios in Chicago by Sanford Parker (Pelican, Unearthly Trance, Venomous Concept) and mastered by Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer member). The songs are a mix of the thrashing aggression & mega-riffage of


Blue Cheer
2008-02-22 10:23:00
<!-- the drop cap --> San Francisco-based Blue Cheer was what, in the late '60s, they used to call a "power trio": Dickie Peterson (b. 1948, Grand Forks, ND) (bass, vocals), Paul Whaley (drums), and Leigh Stephens (guitar). They played what later was called heavy metal, and when they debuted in January 1968 with the album Vincebus Eruptum and a Top 40 cover of Eddie Cochran's hit "Summertime


Up-Tight
2008-02-21 10:14:00
<!-- the drop cap --> I got this one right from the Soundweave blog. And after a few spins i came to the conclusion that Up-Tight is a awesome band! Up-Tight is not to be missed, especially if you are a fan of Acid Mothers Temple, Ghost, High Rise, bands like that. Go get it from Soundweave and after that buy the damn thing from aRCHIVE. Up-Tight - Early Years A re-issue of the out of print 99


Damon Soule
2008-02-20 12:02:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Damon soule was spontaneously infused in our solar system via the magnolia state, 1974 and began expanding annually in a location sometimes referred to as the crescent city. Around the age of four, he began work on his lifelong pursuit concerning the application of homogenous forms to linear topography. Exposure to such a wide range of serendipity during his formative years


The Goslings
2008-02-20 12:01:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Hollywood, Florida family/band Max and Leslie Soren have been unleashing their private bouts of punishing ceremonial sludge-gaze for the past half a decade now, and there’s been some total titanic highlights (Between the Dead, Grandeur of Hair, etc). But the grunge swamp graveyard they seem to unearth their moss metal from must be profoundly fertile ground, because each new


Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno
2008-02-19 10:08:00
<!-- the drop cap --> A super wild, punishingly dark slab of experimental psychedelic hell where fuzz blasted, ultra riffing and hypnotic speed guru guitar chaos - courtesy of Mr. Kawabata Makoto - meet early Amon Duul-influenced druggy, acoustic, mantric folk experimentalisms and eastern drones from below. The scent of sulphur fills the air and brings on the Japanese psychedelic inferno!
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Danava
2008-02-17 09:38:00
<!-- the drop cap --> The NY Press did it again. Over the summer, they hailed the over-hyped, under-imaginitive (although perfectly amiable, I’m sure) WOLFMOTHER as the saviors and returners of the ‘real rock.’ I felt compelled to politely point out the absurdity of both the concept of the ‘return of real rock’ and of Wolfmother being the the flag-bearer for any conceivable such thing. As for ‘


Pharoah Sanders
2008-02-15 06:38:00
<!-- the drop cap --> As Kevin Whitehead's liner notes to this release reflect, Sanders "pays explicit tribute to his late mentor John Coltrane -- as this set's Coltrane-oriented sound makes unashamedly clear." Actually, Coltrane penned only one of the eight tunes, while Sanders wrote six, but the spirit of the master looms heavily throughout. Sanders displays an uncanny resemblance to Trane's


My Blood, My Sweat, My Tears, My Headers
2008-02-15 06:28:00
<!-- the drop cap --> At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important. [M.C. Escher[ <!-- the drop cap --> Mr.A is not to be considered as the greatest artist of the surrealist art movement or any movement and for sure not one of the greatest masters of art of the twentieth century. During his lifetime the public got a
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Sign Here, Here and Here
2008-02-12 09:56:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Believe it or not, the collective members of The Company Band speak from experience as they tackle the capitalistic thematic elements that set the foreground for "Sign Here, Here, And Here.". The label turnover band frontman Neil Fallon has experienced in Clutch alone is enough to fill a deluxe filing cabinet; and when you factor in CKY drummer Jess Margera's industry


Melvins
2008-02-11 10:19:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Although it is a Vinyl Rip we al need this live recording, with their unique down tuned guitar-driven sound that mixes the anguish of punkrock with the doomy approach of Trouble, Saint Vitus, and The Obssessed to name a few. The Best way to start off '08: the mighty Melvins live in '03!! Buzz, Dale, and Kevin, recorded by their longtime soundman, Kurt Schlegel, in Los


From Oceans To Autumn
2008-03-12 11:41:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Autumn Is Forever was formed in Charlotte, N.C. and started out as a side project of different local bands in the fall of 1997. Releasing several ep's, splits and 2 LP's from the fall of 1997 to 2004. In 2006 AIF released there earliest demos from 1997-1998 as an ep titled "Breathe/Fall". In early 2007 AIF was rejoined by 2 original members and recruited 2 new members and
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Jacek Yerka
2008-03-12 11:31:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Jacek Yerka has won international awards for his art, and has had exhibitions in Warsaw, Dusseldorf, Los Angeles, Paris and London. He works and resides, with his family, in a rural enclave of his native Poland. Born in Poland in 1952, JACEK YERKA studied fine art and graphics prior to becoming a full-time artist in 1980. While at university, Yerka resisted the constant


Goatsnake
2008-03-11 12:14:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Rising from the ashes of stoner/doom legends Obsessed during the small genre's most fertile post-Kyuss period, Goatsnake helped define Southern California's low-and-slow metal scene during the late '90s. With releases on Hydrahead Records, Frank Kozik's famed Man's Ruin, and Southern Lord Records (co-owned by guitarist Greg Anderson) Goatsnake could be considered a


Leaf Hound
2008-03-15 03:55:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Leaf Hound were one of the dozens of heavy rock bands that evolved during the late-'60s British blues-rock boom. Rhythm guitarist Derek Brooks and his brother, Stuart Brooks, had been in the Black Cat Bones, a South London-based band that at one time featured Free's Paul Kossoff. Vocalist Peter French and his cousin, lead guitarist Mick Halls, had been in several London


Black Sun Ensemble
2008-03-13 10:35:00
<!-- the drop cap --> Jesus Acedo is the guitar guru of the Black Sun Ensemble , and it’s his varying textures and overlays that make this group tick- the trippy Eastern mysticism, spaced-out Santana-isms, flights of Zappa proportion, jagged jaunts of Ulmer intensity, ringing feedback-heavy crunch or loopy, sizzling sun-baked Meat Puppets riffs. Acedo is aided by some graceful yet fleeting flute/


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