Grunge is a very special music genre to me. For a short, 4 year period grunge dominated the rock music scene. As a result all of the garbage hair bands of the 80s died off. Sure, Guns and Roses and Metallica released what many would consider their best work and a couple of the greatest hard rock albums ever during this era but, for…
Git yer pacifiers and X ready, because we're going clubbin'! I first heard Porter Robinson on a Coachella livestream and it was the best sounding DJ/EDM artist I'd heard in awhile. I don't particularly care for this type of music and I recognize that the younger generations are hella into it for some reason. Nurture does not have the bombast of other EDM DJs,…
About everyone who listened to the radio in the mid-1990s has heard Feel the Pain by Dinosaur Jr. but probably not much else. They went through some career ups and downs, but they are back now, rocking, and pretty old. You can't deny the guitar virtuosity of J. Mascis, and his tortured vocals are pretty good, too. Lou Barlow, also from Folk Implosion, plays…
Field Music is a British band I've been listening to for awhile. They are very stylistically all over the place. I usually just say Indie Rock, because it's too hard to get into the details. This album, Flat White Moon, is a romping good time of Indie Rock. The song Not When You're In Love has such a fun rhythm to it. It's like…
Annnnnnd we're back! Sufjan's third part of the five-part Convocations album is called Revelations and I'm digging this one a bit more than the last one. It's light and airy. Soothing at times and kind of jarring at others. The 8th track Revelation VIII sounds like something you'd hear in a Poltergeist movie, almost like Sufjan is stuck inside a TV static. I also…
Claudio Sanchez, the lead singer/guitarist for Coheed & Cambria, has a solo side project called The Prize Fighter Inferno. The first Prize Fighter album, My Brother's Blood Machine, came out in 2006 as a kind of acoustic electro, weirdly folk album. It was meant to be kind of a side story to the grandiose sci-fi story being told with Coheed & Cambria's music and…
It was recently announced that all of The Mars Volta's catalog of albums would be released in a ginormous box set of vinyl called La Realidad De Los Suenos. As part of that set is this newly remastered and compiled recordings from the first sessions for De-Loused in the Comatorium, The Mars Volta's first album. Due to its historical significance, they also decided to…
This is the second installment of the Convocations series. As the name implies, this one is a bit more sad than the previous one, though not a lot sadder. Sometimes it is eerie, like in the track number VI. Mostly, it is more repetitive and less fulfilling than the Meditations volume. I've listened to it 3 full times now and only a couple tracks…
Weezer is one of my all time favorite bands. They put on one of the best shows Ive ever seen live. And their first three albums helped shape my taste in music. With out them the post grunge, pop alternative, neo emo music landscape would have been left with little to offer. This week I decided to make a short, 20 song, playlist of…
This is the first volume of a five volume series called Convocations. Each album will be released weekly starting today. Is it Christmas or something? This is in the same style as the Aporia album he released last year. It's very ambient and moody. At times, it reminds me of Hans Zimmer film scores or Brian Eno. It has a calming effect, almost hypnotic…
