Tag: rock
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Roadside Bombs – Best of the Best / 45
It’s pretty uncommon for a punk band to publicly praise a music journalist (not that it NEVER happens, just that it doesn’t happen regularly) so when Roadside Bombs doesn’t just praise a critic, they put his face on the A-side of a single and publicly promote him as being “The Best of The Best,” it…
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Weird Owl – Bubblegum Brainwaves LP
Weird Owl is a genuine anomaly in the music industry in several ways: since forming in 2004, the group has not let anything – not lineup changes, not label changes, not changes in focus or sound – deter them from keeping a consistent release schedule. The band’s fifth full-length (sixth release) finds the band nailing…
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Birds – Everything All At Once LP
Birds’ new album, Everything All At Once, rightly commands attention It might sound contrived to someone who has yet to experience it themselves, but the idea that great music is capable of moving a listener spiritually and emotionally is a very real thing. On the right day, the first listen to a record can excite…
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Justin Townes Earle – Kids On The Street LP
After being toasted first and then either critically maligned or flat out ignored for a little while thereafter, Justin Townes Earle has made a sound on his seventh album (first for New West Records) that any critic worth his sand simply cannot ignore. After all the hard luck, Earle had some addiction issues and he…
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‘Cause I Ain’t Too Old To Die, But I Sure Am Hard To Beat
In Memoriam Malcolm Mitchell Young 1953 – 2017 Today Hellbound mourns the tragic loss of Malcolm Young, founder, rhythm guitarist, chief songwriter of AC/DC – and truly a cornerstone of rock and roll. Young passed away today at the too-young age of 64. He had been diagnosed with dementia in 2014, which tragically forced his…
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Crim – Blau sang, Vermell cel LP
The catch, when it comes to working within any pop music-based form (and, as inconvenient as it is to say, punk rock definitely falls into that category), is that language plays a key role in the music’s accessibility. Simply said, if a band’s not speaking the mother tongue of the country they’re playing to, they’ve…
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FAITH NO MORE – We Care a Lot [reissued and revisited]
Their earliest days were way back in 1979 when they formed as Sharp Young Men, later adopting Faith No Man as their moniker along the way. But it was in 1985 when this dynamic ensemble released their initial full-length, We Care a Lot, which was reissued last year with additional demo tracks, live recordings and…
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Event preview: Scream For Me Sarajevo + Prismind @ HFF, 11 Nov 2017
When I found out that this year the Hamilton Film Festival (HFF) is screening a documentary featuring Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden I was definitely intrigued. After watching the trailer for Scream For Me Sarajevo, I still wanted to know more. To that end, I recently had the chance to speak with HFF executive director Nathan…
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Electric Wizard – Wizard Bloody Wizard
Much like Lee Dorrian rallying against occult doom while simultaneously profiting from it with Rise Above Records, something about the pre-release press for this new Electric Wizard record has rubbed me the wrong way. It seems Jus Oborn has also jumped on the “modern metal is lame” bandwagon, hailing the new album as a “return…
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Dead Quiet – Grand Rites
Though they might be a new band, Dead Quiet are no strangers to the vaunted Vancouver heavy rock scene. Featuring former members of Barn Burner and 3 Inches of Blood, these dudes have already toured with Anciients and Black Wizard, before issuing their debut album on… a Toronto EDM label??? However, there ain’t no techno…