Qui
Qui Love’s Miracle [3.5/5]
Crawling from the sewers of Los Angeles like a pair of amphetamine reptiles ripped to the tits on tar fumes, warm Mexican beer and the stench of rotting fish, Qui (pronounced kwee, we’re told) were originally a duo consisting of guitarist/vocalist Matt Cronk and drummer/vocalist Paul Christensen. That is...
HIM post music video for "Bleed Well"
The brooding wolves of the Finnish goth-rock outfit HIM have posted the new music video for "Bleed Well," the latest single off of their new album, Venus Doom (in stores now). Footage for the video was ripped from the reels of their recorded live shows on November 14 and 15 in Los Angeles, CA (details,...
Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys The Meanest Of Times [4/5]
Given that nothing seems to be broken-hell, Martin Scorsese, who used their “I’m Shipping Up To Boston” in his Oscar-winning The Departed, now name-checks them in interviews-the Dropkick Murphys don’t fuck with a good thing on The Meanest Of Times. Famous for blending East Coast hardcore...
Three songs off Rivers Cuomo demos album available
Music has begun to trickle out from the upcoming demos compilation Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, which will be released Dec. 18 on Geffen (details). Cuomo himself has posted "Blast Off!" on his MySpace page; if that’s not your thing, you can stream the track via Windows Media or Real Audio. Plus, check...
Members of The Chariot form Queen's Club
Jake Ryan and Dan Eaton, both members of the noisy metalcore outfit The Chariot, have formed an electro-pop side project called Queen’s Club. The band is currently without a label, but you can listen to two songs, "Take A Number" and "Uh Huh," on their MySpace page.
Source: Decoymusic.com
Be Your Own Pet set release date for new album
Nashville’s barely illegal punks Be Your Own Pet have finished work on the folow-up to 2006’s self-titled release. The new album is called Get Awkward and is slated for release March 18, 2008. Drummer John Eatherly explains:
"We took out a good chunk of time to record the album with Steven McDonald in Nashville, which...
Between The Buried And Me
Between The Buried And Me Colors [4.5/5]
Between The Buried And Me’s Colors covers so much musical terrain, listeners might feel phantom physical fatigue. It’s essentially one 65-minute song-broken into eight tracks for convenience and bookended by a serene piano solo-and this mammoth composition incorporates grinding metal, jazzy syncopation, exotic snake-charming melodies, dream-sequence...
Animal Collective
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam [4/5]
The freakiest freak-folk is rarely as freakish as the more disorienting triumphs of Strawberry Jam, a neo-psychedelic mind-fuck from Animal Collective, the brains behind such headphone-warping masterstrokes as “Flesh Canoe” and “Daffy Duck.” From the waltz-time throb of an opening track whose first words are “A peacebone got...
Aseop Rock
Aseop Rock None Shall Pass [3/5]
As much or more than Def Jux founder El-P, Aesop Rock has come (fairly or not) to symbolize the label’s perceived philosophy-smart, dense and screw-you-if-you-don’t-get-it hip hop. But his fourth solo album is similar in approach to El’s latest, I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead; despite forbidding titles,...