Posts Tagged ‘sons of otis’

Roadburn 2010 audio streams now on line: performances by Sons of Otis (performing Templeball), Night Horse, Fatso Jetson and more!

Posted on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

We are pleased to announce that VPRO 3voor12, which is the leading cultural media network in the Netherlands, has posted more additional on-demand audio streams for your Roadburn 2010 listening pleasure.

Online now! Performances by Sons of Otis (performing Templeball), Night Horse, Fatso Jetson, Oceana Company and more are currently available on-demand. Enjoy!

Formed in Toronto as Otis in 1992, Sons of Otis has followed Detroit-born guitarist Ken Baluke’s original vision to play thick sludge riffs underpinned by a pounding rhythm section and heavily reverbed vocals. The result is slow, spacey, hypnotic blues rock, seemingly too heavy to be real.

1999′s Templeball easily ranks among the best albums that Sons of Otis ever put out, and definitely qualifies as one of the very best stonerrock albums of all time, too. The band played this mile (high) stone of a record  at Roadburn 2010, in addition to a regular show.

In other related news, Online now! Performances by Church of Misery ( Main Stage, Friday, April 16th), Church of Misery (Roadburn Afterburner), Ancestors, Altar of Plagues, Monarch!, Karma To Burn (Friday, April 16th, Midi Theatre), Mouth of The Architect, Suma, Troubled Horse andWitchfynde.

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Eyehategod: Roadburn 2010 audio stream now on line!

Posted on Thursday, June 24th, 2010

We are pleased to announce that VPRO 3voor12, which is the leading cultural media network in the Netherlands, has posted the additional on-demand audio stream of EYEHATEGOD for your Roadburn 2010 listening pleasure. With its hateful, hopeless, anguished vocals set against extra-slow Iommi-inspired riffing, EYEHATEGOD are credited with founding sludge-core, one ...read more

Comus: Roadburn 2010 audio stream now on line!

Posted on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

We are pleased to announce that VPRO 3voor12, which is the leading cultural media network in the Netherlands, has posted the additional on-demand audio stream of COMUS for your Roadburn 2010 listening pleasure. The inspiration for Opeth and countless others in the contemporary dark psychedelica, drone and even avant-garde metal ...read more

More Roadburn 2010 audio streams now on line; performances by Jex Thoth, Astra, Sons of Otis, Eagle Twin and more!

Posted on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Finally, the volcanic dust has (almost) settled! For everyone no longer fighting short term memory loss and extreme fatigue caused by sleep deprivation and sensory overload, get ready to re-live the highlights of Roadburn Festival 2010. For everyone who could not make it due to the mighty Eyjafjallajokull eruption, now ...read more

HellrideMusic Interviews Sons of Otis

Posted on Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Janet Willis of HellrideMusic recently conducted an interview with Ken Baluke of Sons of Otis. A few excerpts from the chat follow below: Hellride Music: This has been a long time in the making due to my constant daily insanity… late but worth the wait. You guys have been around ...read more

Playlist: September (Aligator Descartes)

Posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

The Roadburn playlist is a monthly update from the Roadburn staff reflecting what we are spinning here in the head office. These are the records that get us through the day as we work on Roadburn Festival business and our blog. Much as you’d expect, our playlists feature heavy rock, ...read more

Sons of Otis return to Europe: two shows at Roadburn Festival 2010

Posted on Monday, September 21st, 2009

If time is a toxin, then Sons of Otis must be positively venomous. After a decade since their last European tour, the Canadian heavyweights will return in a very big way, playing two different sets at Roadburn Festival 2010. Formed in Toronto as Otis in 1992, Sons of Otis has ...read more

Album of the day: Sons of Otis – Templeball

Posted on Thursday, September 17th, 2009

These might be the most overused phrases in stonerrock – “the heaviest band” and “the biggest sound.” With that in mind, I’m telling you now that Sons of Otis’ Templeball is one of the largest, heaviest sounding records I have ever heard. Really. The first thing to hit me was ...read more

Album of the day: Sons of Otis – X (Small Stone Records 2005)

Posted on Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

(From our archives): The advent of a new Sons of Otis record is always a combination of expectation and dread. Expectation in that the band consistently produce great records, dread in that, like Spinal Tap, the band seem plagued by minor and major problems during recording! This time around, the ...read more