Artificially Sweetened is best treated as something akin to a The Death Set for Dummies: Clearly, the dudes in The Death Set are big fans of all the artists featured on the mixtape, and the brief selections and odd mash-ups of hip-hop acts and punk bands certainly show their mark on the frenetic punk act. … [Read more…]
“I’ve never felt like much of a member of the metal community, and certainly the other members of the band I think dont really identify with metal so much,” says Hunt-Hendrix. “In New York theres not much of a metal community, at least, that Ive ever been involved with.” via Tomorrow: Liturgy, Brooklyn’s Finest Black … [Read more…]
The word minimalism is used a lot to describe Disappears, the mezmerizing Chicago quartet that dropped its new album, Lux (Kranky), in April. via Tonight: Disappears at Black Cat – Arts Desk – Washington City Paper. I first saw Disappears at the Joan of Arc Variety Show in January. They kicked off their 15-minutes-or-less set … [Read more…]
It might appear that the ultra-abrasive Brooklyn band Parts & Labor has been unusually quiet since dropping its 2008 album, Receivers. Although 2009 was the first year the group went without producing a new album since 2005, the electronics-tinged art-punk act has actually been as productive as ever. “We spent about half of last year … [Read more…]
Few names in pop music inspire the kind of polarizing, passionate responses as John Lydon’s. He kicked his way into the public consciousness with the Sex Pistols in the ’70s: He was featured in the British tabloids as frequently as members of the royal family, angry protesters hung on his every curse word, his words … [Read more…]
With its plain name and its immediate sound, the Montreal quartet Think About Life does not necessarily lend itself to SEO: Here is a band concerned only with making good music. “The one thing that I find is really driving the underground music scene is the Pitchforks,†says singer Martin Cesar. “It’s whether you get … [Read more…]