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Sweet Matty TreatsWhen you’re album takes it’s name from a Cthulhu tome called The Mysteries of the Worm, your ears perk up. When the band interprets it as a time traveling journey of a brother of Jesus, you’re scratching you’re head, but you’re still in it. When it’s High on Fire doing it, you’re fracking sold! On this [...]
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Record Review: ‘De Vermis Mysteriis’ by High on Fire
Posted: April 20, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Converge, Cthulhu, De Vermis Mysteriis, Death Is This Communion, Des Kensel, H.P. Lovecraft, High on Fire, Jeff Matz, Kurt Ballou, Matt Pike, music, Music Reviews, Mysteries of the Worm, Sleep, Snakes for the Divine
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Record Review: ‘Prisoner’ by The Jezabels
Posted: April 19, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: 'Til Tuesday, 80's music, 80's sounding, Hayley Mary, Heather Shannon, indie pop, Indie Rock, Martha Davis, music, Music Reviews, Nik Kaloper, Prisoner, Samuel Lockwood, The Jezabels, The Motels, The Pretenders
To describe The Jezabels as indie rock is a bit of a stretch. If Prisoner was to triumph, it would be to expand the boundaries of the indie genre. In a strange comparison, The Jezabels feel almost like they came out of the 80′s, and we all know how I feel about the 80′s. That’s not exactly a bad [...]
Record Review: ‘Nothing’s Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now’ by Justin Townes Earle
Posted: April 19, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Harlem River Blues, Justin Townes Earle, Midnight at the Movies, music, Music Reviews, Nothing's Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, The Good Life
Justin Townes Earle’s music has always sounded like someone who’s a restless sleeper from album to album. It’s constantly changing styles – The Good Life focused on traditional country, Midnight at the Movies was the folk album, Harlem River Blues, the rockabilly album, and now with Nothing’s Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, JTE delves into [...]
Record Review: ‘Locked Down’ by Dr. John
Posted: April 19, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Dan Auerbach, Dr. John, Locked Down, music, Music Reviews, New Orleans Voodoo
Up until the release of Dr. John’s latest LP, Locked Down, his influence was waning, per his last few albums. Records like Sippiana Hurricane and Creole Moon failed to make an impact, and Dr. John fell by the way side a bit. Step in Dan Auerbach. You know him as the guitarist of the Black Keys, and armed with a new found interest [...]
Record Review: ‘My Head Is an Animal’ by Of Monsters and Men
Posted: April 18, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: "Into the Woods", music, Music Reviews, My Head Is an Animal, Nana Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Of Monsters and Men, Ragnar "Raggi" Pórhallson
At the first aural experience of Of Monsters and Men, particularly their EP, “Into the Woods,” the band delivered an Icelandic indie folk sound that had a lot of potential. The band displayed a lot of organic and earthy tones and featured a pair of dueling vocalists; Nana Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar “Raggi” Pórhallson add [...]
If Holograms Ruled the World
Posted: April 18, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Coachella, Coachella Music Festival, Hip-Hop, Michael Jackson, music, music opinions, Rap, Tupac, Tupac Shakur, Tupak Shakur Hologram
When I came home from work Monday afternoon Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube were alight with news of some hologram of Tupac playing at the Coachella music festival. With social media buzzing, let’s paint the scene for you: you took a second to watch it; you pressed play on the Facebook post you just happened to [...]
Record Review: ‘Zammuto’ by Zammuto
Posted: April 18, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: music, Music Reviews, Nick Zammuto, Paul de Jong, The Books, Zammuto
Nick Zammuto’s famous first project with Paul de Jong, The Books, garnered a lot of attention, particularly with their last album The Way Out. The split that occurred last year left fans with a lot of questions about solo projects and next steps. The first project to emerge, Zammuto’s self titled album, isn’t technically his first as [...]
Record Review: “The Ghost of John Henry” by Sci-Fi Romance
Posted: April 16, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Jody Stark, John Henry, Kurt Bloom, music, Music Reviews, Sci-Fi Romance, The Ghost of John Henry, Vance Kotrla
As a child we’re all told stories that stick with us. Folk legends for most, figures like Casey famously struck out, tales of Tommy Knockers helping miners find ore, and of course the legend of the headless horseman is a familiar haunt every Halloween. One legend that stuck with Vance Kotrla of the L.A. based [...]
Record Review: ‘Hale & Hearty’ by Heyward Howkins
Posted: April 14, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Chet Delcampo, Hale & Hearty, Heyward Howkins, music, Music Reviews, The Trouble with Sweeney
In the era of over-orchestration, and labels in general, overuse is a bit of an understatement. The use of orchestration in music is a crime these days, allowing modern rock bands to “class” up a crapified song. In terms of that music you generally hear on soundtrack scores, artists and bands have had to go [...]
Diverting The Tragedy: Bands That Saved The 80′s
Posted: April 14, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Andy Rourke, Bill Berry, Chris Frantz, Chris Layton, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Johnny Marr, Michael Stipe, Mike Joyce, Mike Mills, Morrissey, music, Paul Westerberg, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Talking Heads, The Replacements, The Smiths, Tina Weymouth, Tommy Shannon
If Back to the Future taught us anything – aside from the fact that the Delorean is the most bad ass vehicle ever to exist – viewing moments in time, particularly our past, is very achievable. From Vinyl, to a slight detour with 8-track (Come on, at least those babies had length, or is that what she said? Can’t [...]
