Posts Tagged ‘sunn 0)))’

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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The Obelisk: In Conversation with Goatsnake’s Greg Anderson

Posted on Friday, May 21st, 2010

JJ Koczan of The Obelisk recently conducted an interview with Greg Anderson about the process of putting Goatsnake back together after nearly a decade of not playing with this lineup, his nervousness about the performance, and updates on SunnO))) and his Ascend project with Gentry Densley of Iceburn and Eagle ...read more

Roadburn Presents: Ulver, Atilla Csihar’s Void Ov Voices, February 12th at the 013 Venue, Tilburg, Holland

Posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Ulver and Attila Csihar’s Void Ov Voices have been confirmed for a Roadburn Presents event to take place Friday, February 12th at the 013 club in Tilburg, Holland. Get your tickets here. Norway’s Ulver are legendary conceptual artists who’ve exaggerated and blurred the lines between every musical form they’ve been ...read more

Sunn O))) live reviewed in The New York Times

Posted on Thursday, October 1st, 2009

With two musicians at its core — Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson — the band has rotating others in studio and onstage; its current tour includes Mr. Moore, of Earth, on keyboards and trombone, and the Hungarian singer Attila Csihar, once of the black-metal band Mayhem. To a crowd twice ...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

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

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