One look at the cover of Exploded Drawing should give you some idea of what to expect. This album is like a Chinese dragon meandering through a parade of fireworks. It is at times beautiful and sly, and other times harsh and direct. At times it is abrasive, lo-fi, and noisy, but it can quickly [...]
Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force - Planet RockAfrika Bambaataa started a revolution. “Rappers Delight” performed by The Sugarhill Gang in the late 1970’s established early rap/hip-hop. This song created a beat and rhythm that would be used by almost every rap artist until the mid 1980’s. Bambaataa’s 1986 album Planet Rock was the next step in the evolution of [...]
Metallica - Death MagneticMetallica has a lot to answer for. They began to lose their metal mojo in the mid-nineties after releasing Load and ReLoad both of which were more mainstream rock than metal. The band members also cut their hair and claimed metal is dead around the time of Load’s release. If this wasn’t [...]
Don Caballero - Punkgasm (Guest Review)Contributed by Shawn Phase.
What can be said about a band like the Don that hasnt been said by many other reviews or interviews? One of the main points that i feel should be said is that this is a band that has predated many genres and idioms in the past. While “indierock” has run its [...]
A trip to Los Angeles circa 1984 would have yielded a young musician with a world of excess and metal. At this time in musical history, Motley Crue (forgive my lack of umlauts) was one of the founding members of a genre of metal affectionately called ‘hair metal’. They indulged in the excess [...]
Mike Doughty - Golden DeliciousIt’s no secret that I’ve been a fan of Mike Doughty since the Soul Coughing years, and he’s one of the artists I’ve seen the most live over the years. As such, I have generally been a big promoter of his stuff to my friends due to his excellent, unusual lyrics, his vocal delivery, and [...]
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (Guest Review)Contributed by Marc J. Dziezynski. Early in 1973, Led Zeppelin’s long-anticipated (Well, for that time anyway) fifth album, Houses of the Holy, was released. Incredibly, it managed to live up to the expectations created by their catalog to that point, particularly the mega-selling Untitled Fourth Album. It’s a snapshot of a band enjoying its mega-success, exercising their right to do whatever they damn well please–and doing it damn well, to boot.
Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Band - Hulk Rules(This review is from the old G-E, I’ll the reposting them over the next few days and update a few of them)
Every now and then, We humans get some divine gifts. We got Vikings, ninjas, the black plague, the wheel then we got Jesus, and then, we got Hulk Hogan.
Now Hulkster is arguably the greatest [...]
Released on June 17, 2006, FM Sound Module Maniax is a compilation album by 14 video game composers of music created solely with FM (frequency modulation) synth. Although FM synth is essentially extinct for conventional use today, from when it was invented in 1983 it was the standard and primary sound module used for music [...]
Girl Talk - Night RipperOkay, what the fuck? What is the big deal about Girl Talk? All the indie press/blogs are all over this guy. Hell, even the hippies are getting into him thanks to his stint opening for Widespread Panic. I’ll give the dude credit, finding all those samples and plugging them in so [...]