Archive for May, 2009

Roadburn 2009: first audio streams on line

Posted on Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Ufomammut - Roadburn 2009

Ufomammut - Roadburn 2009

For those who didn’t get to take part in  Roadburn Festival 2009, and for those who did, but want to relive it, Holland’s major media network Vpro 3voor12 has put up the first on-demand audio streams for your listening pleasure.

Baroness, Ufomammut, Cathedral, Mono, White Hills, Roadsaw, Amon Duul II & Farflung among others are available in a non downloadable fashion.

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Brainwashed: Current 93 – Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain review

Posted on Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Brainwashed.com: Words like armageddon and visionary get tossed about around David Tibet (for good reason) but with this latest album, these words seem too small and meek. As hinted on Black Ships Ate the Sky and the split EP with Om, David Tibet has embraced a blistering ...read more

Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, 24th – 26th of July

Posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

We’re going to attend Birmingham’s very own Supersonic Festival in July: “As British music festivals go, Birmingham’s annual Supersonic event is the best kind of mixed musical bag, a dizzying assortment of avant rock textures and Heavy Metal thunder on a bill which swings from the sublime to the ridiculous ...read more

Album of the day: White Hills – Heads on Fire (Rocket Recordings 2007)

Posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

White Hills were amongst the highlights of this year’s Roadburn Festival (the audio stream will follow soon). Their Heads on Fire ranks amongst the best heavy psych albums of 2007. Here’s what Jerry Kranitz had to say about White Hills’ psychedelic blend of deep space atmospherics:
New York City based White ...read more

Brooklyn Vegan: an interview with Wolves in the Throne Room's Aaron Weaver

Posted on Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Lovingly pinched from one of our favorite blogs:  Wolves In The Throne Room are the outcasts of the outsiders. Among the black metal community, WITTR are constantly named as a band that dodges the conventions of Black Metal, much to the chagrin of its purist core. That desire to push ...read more

Pitchfork: Sasha Grey, Andrew W.K., James Blackshaw guest on Current 93 album

Posted on Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Apocalyptic doom-folk poet David Tibet has rounded up a fascinating, absurd cast of characters for Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain, the newest album from his long-running project Current 93.
The long, twisted list of contributing musicians includes porn star Sasha Grey, party-starter Andrew W.K., 12-string wizard James Blackshaw, singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, ...read more

Psychedelic collective Master Musicians of Bukkake become actual band?

Posted on Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Drawing its incredible original two-figure jam line-up from Seattle’s celebrated music scene, the current (with a modest seven people) incarnation of Master Musicians of Bukkake features Brad Nowan, ex of cult doom extremists Burning Witch and current of Asva, and Don McGreevy and Milky of drone stalwarts Earth.
With  Totem One, ...read more

Album of the day: Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm (Neurot Recordings 2004)

Posted on Friday, May 22nd, 2009

If you live in The Netherlands or plan to visit this summer, long-running Oakland, California-based industrial / alternative / metal pioneers Neurosis will be playing the  Patronaat, Haarlem on Wednesday, July 8th. Meanwhile listen to the on demand audio stream of Neurosis  live at Roadburn 2007 or read Roadburn’s review ...read more

Album of the day: Eyehategod – Confederacy of Ruined Lives (Century Media 2000)

Posted on Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Mike Williams and Jimmy Bower of New Orleans sludge-meisters Eyehategod will be the featured guests on this weekend’s (May 21-24) edition of Full Metal Jackie’s nationally syndicated radio show.To see a full list of stations carrying the program and when it airs, go to FullMetalJackieRadio.com.
Here’s what Roadburn’s Drew Webster ...read more

BLABBERMOUTH.NET: Crowbar back catalog to be reissued

Posted on Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Guitarist / vocalist Kirk Windstein (Crowbar, Down, Kingdom of Sorrow) has issued the following update:
“Got a good bit of good news to announce. Crowbar will be re-releasing the majority of the back catalog through Housecore Records (Down /ex-Pantera singer Philip Anselmo’s record label). These releases will be the ONLY official ...read more

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