Normally, Music of the Week is a column devoted to spotlighting great music my fellow writers are listening to. However, this week, I’m making an exception.
Being an obsessive fan of the video game music scene for the past eight years, I make it a point to check out pretty much every cover band that [...]
This past week, Concatenation Records released an album for a friend of mine and a personally well-respected musician, small child david. Roids for Droids is a collection of work over the past few years that explores a wide variety of types of electronic music. Many of the tracks from my self-ran Original Music Competition are [...]
Music of the Week: Alex Atchley - Alex Atchley No DensetsuAlex Atchley is a wonderful human being, who happens to make wonderful music. Alex Atchley No Densetsu is, as some have said before, hard to put into words. The style of the album varies from song to song, and there’s a fair amount of humor and Alex’s personality coming through in every song. Part of [...]
Music of the Week: Zombi - Surface To AirEver just kinda forget that a band is awesome? I suppose I am guilty of that with Zombi, so they are my music of the week.
I became a rather big fan of theirs with the release of Surface To Air in 2006, but after a few weeks they got lost in my dozens of other [...]
When writing these Music Of The Week’s, I try to keep in mind both mainstream artists and smaller artists, and basically anything that I think that My Kinda Guy (TM) will enjoy. This week, Kevin Hagge, aka Wizards and Warriors and a friend of Good-Evil, released a new EP Wave Traveler. I think what is [...]
Music of the Week: The Sounds - Dying to Say This to YouThe first thing you need to know about The Sounds Dying to Say This to You is that the album cover is so completely bitchin’ that it can make the album buyable without even listening to it. It is pure sex. As far as the music goes, “Ego” and “Hurt You” are tops, the best [...]
Music of the Week: Judgment Night SoundtrackThis is the time of the week where Zach picks a soundtrack from 1993 and writes about it. On the plus side, I have to say this is a pretty interesting album to say the least. I’ve never bothered to check out the movie, but I remember seeing that this album had a lot of [...]
Music of the Week: Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous“A live album from 1978? Zach must be desperate.”
It would be easy to think that of course, but lately I’ve been listening to this album a lot, and it’s hard to dispute, at least in my mind, that this is one of the best live albums ever released. What you get here is Thin [...]
I am nuts about Phlogiston. He’s got some of the richest textures and melodies of any chiptune artist.
In his new release, Croqel, the focus is on melody and the richness of the NES. These days, it’s easy to make a song that sounds like it’s from an NES. But there are so many NES [...]
It’s no secret that I’ve become a rather large fan of Modest Mouse over the past 2 years. With that in mind, it is wise to note that this is essentially a side project of lead singer Isaac Brock, and while the music doesn’t quite mesh with the Modest Mouse “sound”, Brock’s voice alone will [...]