All Entries in the "Music Features" Category
SEWERS OF MARS #18
Apologies for the extended absence, friends. My midnight wiffleball league has hogged up most of my free time, and these weekly watermelon growing contests aren’t going to emcee themselves. It took a spat of no longer recent releases to get me over to the ol’ Gateway to sing from the rooftops. Here are a few notables.
THE MONKEES….Considered
The advent and popularity of Bob Dylan as an acoustic avatar and Elvis-like icon for the educated, resulted in the pop scene of the mid 1960s
GOING BALD WITH PISSED JEANS
Music Features GOING BALD WITH PISSED JEANS Nov 11, 2009, 06:14 Bradley Field is a happily married man who recently purchased a home. He has a small, adorable dog that is featured on the insert of Hope For Men wearing a sweater. Brad’s a shutterbug—he likes taking weekend trips to somewhere woodsy and taking photos. [...]
DEATH RATTLE #1
Greetings and welcome to the inaugural edition of Death Rattle, the new bi-monthly Your Flesh column showcasing the best and worst of all things metal.
SEWERS OF MARS #17
Music Features SEWERS OF MARS #17 By Apr 20, 2009, 08:52 Sorry for the extended silence, friends. That Thorazine’s a beeyotch….. I’m what you call a “soft touch” any band that wants to get on my good side need only namedrop Royal Trux in their press kit. This very public Achilles heel of mine seems [...]
The Mystery of SIGHTINGS
Music Features The Mystery of SIGHTINGS Apr 20, 2009, 08:47 SIGHTINGS @ The Vanishing Point in Bushwick, Brooklyn: The New York Eye and Ear Festival. December 13th, 2008 Moving to NYC about the same time Sightings began playing around Brooklyn (2000-ish—back when Manhattan wasn’t quite a formaldehyded mall yet), I’ve had a chance to see [...]
SEWERS OF MARS Best of 2008
2008 was a decent year for music—not as good as 2007, but better than 2009 will be.
SCION METAL FEST 2009: Burned by Rice!!!
The formula seems perfect: thirty-one of some of the most abrasive, artistic, and daring metal bands, a twelve hour time frame so as to not take up the entire weekend, and a non-existent ticket price (yes, free -RSVP and an age of 18 or older was all that was required). I readied myself for the usual inconveniences corporate sponsors (how metal can a boxy car like the Scion, polar opposite of a ’74 Camaro, be?) that made the ticket price zero having the open door to shove all of its propaganda down your throat when all that’s needed is the bathroom, overpriced food, water, and beer again to absorb the cost to put such an event on, and set times limited to 25-30 minutes so as to allow such a multitude of bands to perform.
DEATH Comes Full Circle
Music Features DEATH Comes Full Circle Mar 6, 2009, 19:54 The East Detroit street of Lillibridge crosses East Vernor Highway about five miles from downtown. It’s a working class black neighborhood, has been since anyone can recall. In the 70s, solid auto work at the Detroit Three plants that surrounded East Detroit kept the area [...]
The Weight of THE OCEAN’s Precambrian
Deutschland’s The Ocean began as a collective of musicians all revolving around central songwriter Robin Staps. After years of big ideas (the debut full-length was originally planned as a double album but scrapped probably due to the fact that no one knew them therefore wouldn’t fund such an egotistical project [though it was finally re-released as just that, titled Fluxion/Aeolian by the good-hearted Throne Records]) and an eventual larger following, the lineup solidified. Constant touring and networking with the likes of Nate Newton (Converge/Doomriders) and Caleb Scofield (Cave In/Old Man Gloom) have been great for them as they now call one of the cornerstone metal labels Metal Blade home.