March 2012
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February 2012
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Watchnprmusic:
In under five hours at the Newport Jazz Festival, Eric Harland was the drummer for three different world-class bands. We asked him to play a rusty piece of scrap metal with trumpeter Avishai Cohen in an abandoned fort. Watch a duo improvisation from a rather unorthodox venue.
Love this.
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WatchDownload a free comp of mosquito-bitten, swamp-ridden Florida metal from Satanik Recordings. I’m particularly digging hard on the Southern death ‘n’ roll of Druid Lord, the chaotic tech/jazz/psych-metal of Orbweaver, and the pigs-rolling-in-blood-n-mud goregrind of Extremely Rotten.
[CVLT Nation]
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I non-ironically love awesomely-bad things like... →
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WatchNew 20-minute Lightning Bolt jam to rage into the weekend.
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“When people ask me to explain the South, I usually don’t have an answer beyond...”
– Oxford American editor Marc Smirnoff’s dismantling of Garden & Gun is totally cutting, totally smart and totally overdue. It makes me proud to be a Southerner as well as an OA contributor. (via rachael-maddux)
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“I always tried to play guitar like a drummer and play drums like a guitar...”
– [NPR Music: For The Open Road: The Gunn-Truscinski Duo’s Expanded Americana]
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“Anarchy isn’t about anger or alienation; it’s an optimistic and...”
– Matthew Widener of Liberteer making sense.
[Pitchfork]
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“There’s a fine line between the expression of excitement the way excitement used...”
– [MetalSucks: Death to Mosh Pits!]
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WatchSteven R. Smith’s latest private-press LP, Old Skete, is, by far, his most personal-sounding solo guitar record, yet. Like, razor-blades-on-the-counter sad. Is that guy okay? Damn.
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“Black metal has long embraced recording conditions and qualities that other...”
– [That’s How Kids Die: Worship Black Metal Cassettes]
Not only a nice round-up of what the Black Twilight Circle collective has released on Rhinocervs and Crepusculo Negro (still want my tapes, dammit) but also puts black metal cassette culture (kvltvre?) in perspective.
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“Each Valentine’s Day, we dream a dream we know can never come true. Just...”
– What in the fresh hell is this, Noisecreep? Lemme help you out by pointing you here.
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“Perhaps to some degree we’re uncomfortable, as a culture, with the fact that...”
– [Slate: We’re Living In A Golden Age Of Documentary Filmmaking]
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WatchThere’s not much to this live performance music vid from Autopsy other than a lot of flashing lights and some hilariously hammy mug shots, but the song kicks serious ass and features all the mental-patient-with-a-guitar things you’d hope an Autopsy song would have.
[Bloody Disgusting]
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“Humanity is doomed. And The Botanist awaits that doom eagerly.”
– [Quietus: The Botanist Interviewed]
I also interviewed The Botanist back in September, but dude is a one-man, hammered-dulcimer black metal quote machine.
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WatchHey, remember when metal music videos weren’t sent to VH1 purgatory? Helms Alee does and recreates some of the more memorable late ‘80/early ’90s videos. This rules.
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“The notable Christian bands of today, whether they know it or not, owe a great...”
– [Cryogenic Husk: Faster For The Master]
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WatchBlack & white paper puppets visualize Yamantaka // Sonic Titan’s proggy-pop-opera song “Hoshi Neko.” You can stream the just-now-catching-on debut album, YT//ST, at Bandcamp.
[Pitchfork]