Posts Tagged ‘stephen o malley’

Cause & Effect Presents The Music of Sunn O))), Thursday, June 11th

Posted on Monday, June 7th, 2010

Every week Cause and Effect, hosted by Lightning’s Girl and Alex, summons your inner music nerd to identify the influences of your favorite musical groups, explore their work and peers, and play new artists following in their footsteps. This week, the Cause & Effect continues with 2 hours of music by Sunn O))) and others residing in their sonic solar system.

Starting Thursday, June 11th from 7PM to 9PM East you can tune in your transistor in Richmond, VA to 97.3 FM or stream the show live anywhere else on the planet via WRIR.ORG. The final 2 hours of music will be made available as a podcast only for your downloading pleasure and will posted on the Cause & Effect Facebook page.

The first part of  6 hours of music by Sunn O))) took place on Thursday, June 3rd. Please click HERE for the tracklisting.

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Boris Team With The Cult’s Ian Astbury

Posted on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

The forces of awesome randomness strike again! Japanese doom overlords Boris have teamed up with a truly unexpected collaborator: Ian Astbury, the gigantic-voiced yowler from metal mystics the Cult. Together, they’ve recorded an EP called BXI, which Southern Lord will release on CD and 12″ vinyl in September. Boris and ...read more

Burning Witch: Performance Footage Posted On Line

Posted on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Whale Bone Productions has uploaded professionally filmed video footage (see below) of Burning Witch‘s February 6th, 1997 performance on 29 Live ep #56. A DVD containing this full set will be included in the forthcoming Burning Witch vinyl box, on Southern Lord. “Graffitti is on the wall in the back ground ...read more

Sunn O))) Soundtrack grimmest commercial ever

Posted on Saturday, August 1st, 2009

The crossover drone duo are known for time spent in galleries and their eclectic collaborations (from Tony Conrad to Attila Csihar to Dennis Cooper to Julian Cope and back), so it’s not surprising to hear Flight Of The Behemoth’s “O)))BOW1″ soundtracking a particularly arty commercial for Norway’s (of course) Anti-Sweden ...read more

Pitchfork rates Khanate – Clean Hands Go Foul: 7.6

Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Clean Hands Go Foul, the fourth and likely final full-length from late experimental metal outsiders Khanate, deserves a warning label: “Not recommended for those with mild-to-severe mental disturbances,” it could read before countering, “Well, just promise not to hurt anyone, OK?” Its brittle, monstrous tones shake whatever space they enter. ...read more

Supersonic Festival 2009

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Sunday night’s performance of the reunited Goblin brought Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival to a close, a fitting conclusion to a great weekend for me and Jurgen. One of the special things about Supersonic that we noticed was how much time the musicians from the various bands on the bill spent hanging ...read more

Pitchfork: Interviews Sunn O)))

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Grayson Currin of Pitchfork recently conducted an interview with Sunn 0))). An excerpt from the article follows below. Judging by the consistent criticism that Sunn O)))’s metal-based drone experimentation suffers– that is, it’s boring, self-serious, humorless, and mean– perhaps one wouldn’t expect Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley to be cruising ...read more

Druids, drone metal are just part of experiencing a Sunn O))) show

Posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

ESPN.com columnist & former pro basketball player Paul Shirley recently conducted an interview with Sunn 0))). An excerpt from the article follows below I feel Sunn O))) before I see them. It’s five minutes before 6 p.m., and I’m standing on the corner of Broadway and Westport in Kansas City, ...read more

Thorr’s Hammer reunion at Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival

Posted on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

JamMin of Terrorizer.com recently conducted an interview with  Thorr’s Hammer’s Runhild Gammelsæter. An excerpt from the interview follows below. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or find anything slower than Agoraphobic Nosebleed “a bit dull and uninteresting”, you’ve probably heard that legendary doom troupe Thorr’s Hammer (the Thorr’s Hammer ...read more

Album of the day: Sunn 0))) – The GrimmRobe Demos (Southern Lord 2005)

Posted on Friday, May 29th, 2009

(From our archives): When it came to ambient drone soundscapes, Dylan Carlson was a visionary. His seminal recordings with Earth blazed a new trail through the wilderness of possibility for distorted electric guitar. The drone-riff spectacular, Extra-Capsular Extraction was treated as a novelty by many listeners – especially since it ...read more