Somewhere shy of the live feedback outbursts of Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Grateful Dead, yet heavier, more demented and sludgier than The MC5 or The Stooges, lays Chicago’s Plastic Crimewave Sound. Named after their vocalist, Plastic Crimewave, the crew draws from ’60′s garage punk psychedelia, the stoned-out desert mirages of Kyuss and Fu Manchu, [...]
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Time Must Have A Stop is the debut CD from Polish prog-rock band Votum released through Progrock/SPV Records. Although the band has received some notice from various American and European metal publications, it’s very difficult to think of Votum’s music as purely metal. True, guitarists Alek Salamonik and Adam Kaczmarek have a tendency to veer [...]
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Shadoks Music has rescued yet another obscure recording for our enjoyment – Souvenir Album by Strange. The disc features eight songs proper and four segments of other tunes recorded from 1974 to 1978, and more than anything highlights the songwriting abilities of David Chamberlain, the band’s multi-instrumentalist and singer. Even in their hometown of Olympia, [...]
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Pat Mastelotto. Perhaps you aren’t familiar with his name, but trust me you’ve heard him play drums at least 100 times so far in your life. Even if you weren’t aware that he was the other percussionist alongside Bill Bruford in the “double trio” lineup of King Crimson and onward, you’ve still heard him. Maybe [...]
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I blame myself. For more than a decade, I ignored Van Morrison’s The Healing Game, always tuning in instead to other albums such as No Guru, No Method, No Teacher, Veedon Fleece, Beautiful Vision and Back On Top. Let’s face it, Morrison is prolific, and keeping up with his catalog can be challenging. But challenges [...]
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What’s not to love about Sundazed Music? Their re-release of recordings considered essential by collectors, yet out of print for decades, never ceases to astound. Their High Definition Vinyl output is especially impressive. Let’s give a listen to an infamous record that has been slagged by some critics and ignored by Atlantic Records nearly since [...]
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Legendary guitarist and songwriter Dickey Betts (of Allman Brothers Band, Great Southern and Dickey Betts Band fame) was captured on film by Arnie Goodman at a recent concert in New York City. Whether toting a Gibson Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster, Betts makes the guitar sing. Check out the nearly 100 images of Betts and [...]
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Every now and then an artist that’s been lurking around on the fringes of the music scene will step out of the shadows with a record that completely blows us away. Tony Joe White is one of those artists, and Deep Cuts is one of those records. Hipsters from back in the day will remember [...]
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Eight songs that read more like German folk-tinged, experimental dirges than pop or rock music; such is Nico’s second solo record, 1969’s The Marble Index. With arrangements by her former Velvet Underground cohort John Cale and production by the enigmatic Frazier Mohawk, there have been few major label releases since that have cast commercial potential [...]
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Redemption is a progressive metal band that was formed in Los Angeles in 2000 around the talents of guitarist Nick van Dyk. Despite lineup changes, the group has released three albums to great critical and audience acclaim. Some significant fans are the members of Dream Theater, who invited Redemption to support them during their 2007 [...]
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