Archive for June, 2011

Album of the day: Lunar Dunes – Galaxsea

Posted on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Spacerock Reviews:  Following on from last night’s rather beefy stoner rock and some acoustic-based dark folk, here’s something completely different. This is Adam Blake from Cornershop, Transglobal Underground’s Hamilton Lee and (not noted from any other band – sorry) Ian Blackaby who’ve previously released one other album, 2007′s From Above, have played with Damo Suzuki and are now here again with Lunar Dunes, an improvisational and free-flowing, and largely instrumentally focused collection that is firmly from the jazz-rock / avant-garde wing of space rock.

I’ll note here that while I say ‘instrumentally focused’, this does feature vocals from Krupa Pattni (also of Transglobal Underground), but those vocals are ones that compliment the music almost as though the voice is an additional instrumentation and it wouldn’t be correct, to my ears, to describe these nine tracks as ‘songs’ – they are beguilingly wispy compositions to which the vocal contribution has a part to play in delivering mood and texture rather than as a recitation of lyrics across the top of the music.

Continue reading Spacerock Reviews: Lunar Dunes – Galaxsea.

Tags: 4Zero Records, Adam Blake, Album of the day, Cornershop, Galaxsea, Hamilton Lee, Ian Abrahams, Ian Blackaby, Lunar Dunes, Spacerock Reviews, Transglobal Underground
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Roadburn Festival 2011 – Day 3 (by Transylvanian Hungerrr)

Posted on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

If with each word we win a victory over nothingness, it is only the better to endure its reign. We die in proportion with the words which we fling around us…Those who speak have no secrets. And we all speak. We betray ourselves, we exhibit our heart; executioner of the ...read more

Album of the day: Alcest – Le Secret

Posted on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Praise for Alcest’s Le Secret from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Long before melodic post black metal or blackened shoegaze metal, or whatever you want to call it, became the flavor of the month (a flavor we continue to find delicious by the way), Alcest’s 2 song debut came out of ...read more

Pepper Keenan Rejoins Corrosion of Conformity On Stage In Spain; Video Available (Blabbermouth)

Posted on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Pepper Keenan, who has spent the last few years focusing on his guitar-playing duties in Down, rejoined his Corrosion of Conformity bandmates on stage this past Saturday, June 18 at Kristonfest in Bilbao, Spain. Fan-filmed video footage of his appearance can be seen below. Continue reading: BLABBERMOUTH.NET – PEPPER KEENAN ...read more

White Hills: H-p1 Full Album Stream at Vpro 3voor12

Posted on Monday, June 20th, 2011

H-p1, the new album from New York cosmonauts White Hills , is available for streaming in its entirety at Vpro 3voor12, which is the leading cultural media network in the Netherlands.  

Philip Anselmo Performs With Eyehategod At Spain’s Kristonfest; Video Available (Blabbermouth)

Posted on Monday, June 20th, 2011

Philip Anselmo (Down) joined Eyehategod on stage this past Saturday, June 18 at Kristonfest in Bilbao, Spain to perform the Eyehategod song Sister Fucker. Fan-filmed video footage of his appearance can be seen below. Continue reading: BLABBERMOUTH.NET – PHILIP ANSELMO Performs With EYEHATEGOD At Spain’s KRISTONFEST; Video Available. In related ...read more

Visions Of American Black Metal: Liturgy’s Hunter Hunt-Hendrix Responds (Stereogum)

Posted on Monday, June 20th, 2011

If you have any interest in underground metal, black or otherwise, you’re aware of the uproar created by Brooklyn quartet Liturgy. Much of the disdain’s focused on frontman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, and what people view as his “pretentious” reading of black metal (American and otherwise). For instance, a couple week’s ago ...read more

Album of the day: White Hills – H-p1

Posted on Monday, June 20th, 2011

Praise for White Hill‘s H-p1 from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records:  Latest blast of psychedelic space rock from these NYC sonic assassins, and like all the previous White Hills jams, it’s a good one, but in some ways, it’s actually a lot different. Still present are the usual space rockisms, swirling ...read more

Monday Song: Atomic Rooster – Breakthrough

Posted on Monday, June 20th, 2011

Every Monday morning we’ll post a kick-ass song to get your week going!

Album of the day: Urthona 3 – Super-Heavy Hamoazian Reverie

Posted on Sunday, June 19th, 2011

Praise for Urthona 3: Super-Heavy Hamoazian Reverie from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Time once again, we’re honored to announce, that we all are enabled to plug directly into the Earth’s own Ur-Drone, ’cause we’ve got the new album from England’s Urthona, psychedelic drone warriors heavily inspired, or even empowered, by ...read more