Tag: review
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Garbageface x Wolfagram – Dymaxion LP
Garbageface x Wolfagram Dymaxion LP (Rap Will Eat Itself Records) Over the last few years, Karol “Garbageface” Orzechowski has used a laptop, a few instruments and a prodigious amount of talent to expand the vocabulary of electronic music, and really gone out of his way to both force change and re-arrange some musical conventions and…
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Infinite X’s – S/T (Standard Edition black vinyl reissue) LP
Infinite X’s s/t (Standard Edition black vinyl reissue) LP (Jealous Butcher/Chainsaw) After Longstocking met its end in 1997, singer/guitarist Tamala Poljak was clearly still riding some residual inspiration when they began assembling the music which would become Infinite X’s’ debut album. When the time finally came to start recording, the group of players assembled to…
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Suzi Moon – Call The Shots 12” EP
Suzi Moon Call The Shots 12” EP (Pirates Press Records) Listening to Call The Shots – the debut EP by Suzi Moon – there’s no way to deny that listeners will be able to recognize a great similarity to the vocal tone and timbres of Courtney Love, but listeners also won’t be able to deny…
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Neil Young – Way Down In The Rust Bucket (4LP)
In the fifty-two years which have made up his career to date, Neil Young has been a lot of things – an activist, a fortune teller, an elder statesman, a folkie, a rock star, a filmmaker and other titles too – but he has never seemed to be lighthearted. The singer has been interested in…
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Paul Leary – Born Stupid
When guitarist Paul Leary suddenly reappeared contributing guitar performances to The Melvins’ twentieth album, Hold It In, as well as contributing some songwriting to the project about six years ago, it felt like a shocking development. Not that Leary had vanished or retired or anything, the guitarist was simply busy doing other things; he developed…
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AC/DC – PWR/UP LP
AC/DC has tried a few different things and taken a few different turns to try and grow up (or age up? Or act their age?) in the last thirty-eight years with limited success at most. Every time the band has tried to move forward from the callous one-liners and double entendres which first helped to…
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Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
I must confess that, when I learned Warner Brothers Records was reissuing Jane’s Addiction’s third full-length album as part of their Rocktober promotion last year, I got really, really excited. In fact, excitement barely even begins to qualify the wealth of sensations that I felt when I heard about it; the number of memories that…
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Seized Up – Brace Yourself LP
A deeper look at the grooves pressed into Seized Up’s Brace Yourself LP. Ever heard an album which hits the mark brilliantly and causes you to remember why you like or got into one particular type of music or another, reader? Brace Yourself, the new album by Seized Up, hit me like that – about…
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Lenny Lashley’s Gang Of One – All Are Welcome LP
A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the All Are Welcome LP by Lenny Lasley’s Gang Of One. After the events which have taken place in the United States recently, one would have to ask if the album title and the image which adorns the cover of Lenny Lashley’s All Are Welcome LP is…
