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Fall Out Boy: Manila show announced! |
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Written by krotzyk
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
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Fall Out Boy's southeast Asia tour will make a stop Quezon City, Philipines to play the Araneta Coliseum. Tickets go on sale July 18th for the show at "The Big Dome" on September 21. |
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CD reviews: Editors - An End Has a Start |
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Written by krotzyk
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
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Gloom sluts even by Northern English post-punk standards, Editors were the toast of 2005, at least in certain dimly lit, poorly furnished, disgustingly smoke-clogged garrets around the world. Sure, they  sounded like Joy Division but with a little death disco in the drums, a little flash in the guitar and a salutary emotional resolve in Tom Smith's voice, as in "Munich" ("It breaks when you don't force it/It breaks when you don't try" – such a simple line, yet tougher the longer you chew on it) or "All Sparks." On the second Editors album, An End Has a Start, the songwriting has moments, like "Bones" and "Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors." But the production goes soft, a sorry trend this year for U.K. bands' sophomore albums (see Bloc Party, the Rakes, Kaiser Chiefs, etc.); the songs get puffed and fluffed up but lose the wiry edge of "Munich," burying Chris Urbanowicz's guitar until it all sounds like Coldplay. Nice tunes, but louder, please. |
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Arctic Monkeys - "Fluorescent Adolescent" |
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Written by krotzyk
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Thursday, 28 June 2007 |
 ‘Fluorescent Adolescent’, will be released on 9th July and is the second single to be taken from ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ . The lyrical narration is supported by a striking video directed by Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd/Nathan Barley) , starring Stephen ‘Scummy Man’ Graham (Snatch/Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels) and a rather scary bunch of clowns.
Watch the video below:
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Written by krotzyk
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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Yesterday a friend of mine told me about this band. I haven't heard about them before but I simply like it. The band is called Saosin and here are their "Voices" off Saosin's self-titled debut. Enjoy!
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System of a Down - In The Beginning... |
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Written by krotzyk
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Tuesday, 26 June 2007 |
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System of a Down (also referred to as System or abbreviated as SOAD) is a four-piece, Grammy-award winning band, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles, California. All four members are of Armenian descent, grandsons of Armenian Genocide  survivors, and are widely known for their outspoken views found in many of their songs. System of a Down has achieved commercial success over five albums, with singles such as "Chop Suey!" and "B.Y.O.B.". System of a Down is a part of the Axis of Justice, a non-profit organization formed by band member Serj Tankian (along with Tom Morello) that is dedicated to bringing together musicians, music fans and grassroots political organizations to fight for social justice. The roots of System of a Down lie in the band Soil, a group from Los Angeles that included Serj Tankian on vocals and Daron Malakian on guitar, as well as Dave Hakopyan (Bassist for Apex Theory) on bass and Domingo Laranio (Local Hawaii Drummer) on drums. Shavo Odadjian joined Soil quite down near the end as a guitarist. After three years, and only one live show and one jam session recording, the band split up. |
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Beneath the Bucolic Gurgling, Throbbing Electronica |
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Written by krotzyk
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
 Open the CD booklet of “Person Pitch” (Paw Tracks), the marvelous recent album from the Animal Collective member known as Panda Bear, who played the Bowery Ballroom on Monday night, and you won’t find any song lyrics. Instead, you’ll find collages and two pages of acknowledgments. On one page Panda Bear thanks Mom and Dad and lots of other people who know him by his real name, Noah Lennox. On the other he lists more than 100 musical acts. |
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Written by krotzyk
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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
 was one of the first and most crucial releases in the burgeoning lo-fi movement, which would peak in media attention in the mid 1990s with the success of Beck, Guided By Voices and Sebadoh themselves. But while it helped inspire and define a global movement, you will struggle to trace such an ambition within these tracks. Sebadoh in this incarnation are a cherishably intimate experience, the seventy odd minutes of wayward, crazy-paved brilliance collected here offering the listener the rare and recommended opportunity to transport themselves to the weed-hazed bedroom where these scraps and songs and pranks were recorded, to imbibe deeply of the haywire creativity that went on in these sessions. |
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Written by krotzyk
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
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We've got here another great indie-rock song. You could know this one form Grey's Anatomy and it is called War On Sound, interpreted by swedish band Moonbabies. Enjoy!
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Robert Wyatt - Comicopera |
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Written by krotzyk
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
On October 8 2007 Robert Wyatt is to release his new album and first for Domino records.
 Called 'Comicopera', the 16 track album will be available on both CD and double vinyl formats. It was produced by Robert himself, and recorded at his home in Louth as well as Phil Manzanera's Gallery Studio.
'Comicopera' is divided into three Acts - 'Lost in Noise', 'The Here and The Now', and 'Away with the Fairies', and is initially more diverse and live sounding than it's predecessor 'Cuckooland'.
Featuring a cast of musicians including Brian Eno, Paul Weller and Phil Manzanera, Robert says he was keen for the album to capture the sound of a group of musicians playing in the room together, but more importantly to have friends playing together. "Music isn't just an abstract pleasure, it is a company, when you play a record. Why I like Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, the Big Bands - is because every character in the band is identifiable as that person - there's this group of humans in a room" he says. It is this that gives 'Comicopera' a sense of spontaneity, despite it's deliberate pacing and construction as something of a three Act 'Opera' |
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CD review: Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain |
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Written by krotzyk
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
 "I can't believe I'm still here," Osbourne moans on his ninth solo album. "I should be dead." We're glad he's still here, but the fact is that the Prince of Darkness is usually only as good as the guitarist he's paired with. On Black Rain, longtime axman Zakk Wylde repeatedly breaks out generic metal riffs that were used to significantly better effect on 1991's No More Tears. The strongest track, "Black Rain," is basically "War Pigs" updated to reflect the war in Iraq. It's a reminder of how good Ozzy can be when given decent subject matter and a spooky riff -- and a beacon of hope that next year's rumored Black Sabbath reunion could restore Ozzy's glory. But this one is highly skippable. |
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