I feel like Flipper's "Sex Bomb" would make a good "bonus beat" for this entry. "She's a sex bomb my baby yeah!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hd4SSRajlc
You know I had to check out a rap song called "Rehearse With Ornette." I like it. It reminds me of a cross between Cannibal Ox and New Kingdom. Will buy.
The Pig Destroyer is...just another Pig Destroyer album. I listened to it a couple of times and felt basically nothing. When you consider that Terrifyer was one of the greatest albums of the 2000s, there is really nothing to "note" about Head Cage. I wish that wasn't the case.
That Deracinated album is great, though if I'm being honest, my favorite broooootal death metal album of the month (and I bought three) is Ages Of Atrophy's The Great Ascendancy Fraud, which is also on Inherited Suffering.
Just FYI, I don't often plug it here 'cause it feels weird doing so, but I have a podcast and the most recent episode includes an hour-long interview with Mitchell.
https://simplecast.com/s/9961b979
Smalls, the Jazz Standard, and the Jazz Gallery are the three places I go to most often.
http://smallslive.com
http://jazzstandard.com
http://jazzgallery.org
It's definitely worth a listen. I really, really loved the first Darcy James Argue's Secret Society album, Infernal Machines, felt like they fell off a lot on the second one, and thought the third was good again - this one reminds me of Argue's debut, in that it combines real air-pushing big band stuff with loud rock elements in a way that respects both equally.
Dude. Almost exactly one year ago, I not only did a Creed retro feature, I fucking INTERVIEWED SCOTT STAPP AND MARK TREMONTI.
http://www.stereogum.com/1959429/last-of-the-multi-platinum-post-grunge-bands-creed-talk-my-own-prison-at-20/franchises/sounding-board/
I was watching the documentary about the Wrecking Crew last night. What a fantastic story. Those guys (and one woman) played on fucking EVERYTHING. From the biggest pop/rock hits to the rankest lounge-act cheese. Once you watch that movie you realize that a staggering number of the big "bands" of the 1960s were in fact vocal ensembles.
Another tremendous "black metal plus a bunch of other stuff" record comes out this week - Imperial Triumphant's Vile Luxury. It's got horns, Glenn Branca/Sonic Youth guitar clang, a bunch of guest vocalists including Yoshiko Ohara from Bloody Panda, and it's fucking awesome. Highly recommended.
Never seen My Bloody Valentine live, but I have seen Khanate cause an amp to burst into flames onstage, and Borbetomagus do the same to a stage monitor, at a show where they were opening for Merzbow.
Planetary Prince and its companion EP are definitely getting overlooked, and that's too bad. They're both great records. (I think it would help if Graves was part of Washington's live band, but he's touring with Stanley Clarke instead.)
My first reaction when this was announced - and after watching the "Apeshit" video - was "Oh good, another 'Fuck you, we're rich' album." Your review makes me think I was pretty much right.
When Jersey Boys first came out, my immediate response was "Really? People give that much of a fuck about the fucking FOUR SEASONS?" When I found out just how many hits they had, over just how long a stretch of time, my response shifted to "Seriously? What the fuck was wrong with people back then?"
I really don't understand the volume-fetish thing with this band. I have never seen them live, but I've listened to their music, and the proper volume level at which to hear it is "not so loud that the waitress gets my order wrong."
Garden 1st Set, Garden 2nd Set, and The Willisau Concert are all up there.
Also, I created a playlist with all the available music by his 1978 band: https://open.spotify.com/user/burningambulance/playlist/7BPDFwqjPERcffVxGyWOSB?si=ZLT0IgQnTxyWpVnyfBQX0A
I remember d-bags trying to tell me the first two Baroness EPs were the best thing they ever did. Fuck outta here with that bullshit. Blue Record was a slight step down from Red Album, but Yellow & Green is a goddamn masterpiece. They haven't made a bad full-length yet.
Liking that Messa a LOT. And yeah, the Judas Priest album is all that and more. Like I said on Twitter when I first heard it, "The new Judas Priest album is too long (14 songs, 58 minutes - I'd have preferred 10 in 40-45), the lyrics are basically nonsense, and I still don't like the cover. And yet it still manages to totally fucking rule."
This story is really interesting to me, because it crystallizes my problem with Springsteen: He takes something that's great for two and a half minutes and does it for fifteen minutes.
I first became aware of Monder a few years ago, when he was in a quartet with saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh - they've got a few albums together on Sunnyside, of which The Turn is the best.
I saw the Residents tour supporting that album. It was one of the most amazing shows I've ever seen - a full-on (and very creepy) theatrical production where they sang gospel songs and cowboy songs in the first half, then Elvis songs in the second half.
I like this a lot. Bonehead slam metal with "oh my god, what's wrong with the toilet?" vocals, when done well, is one of my favorite things in the world, and this is really good.
"We see this all the time as new generations of critics and artists emerge to replace the old guard" - Mtume, the percussionist in Miles Davis's 1970s band, has actually said that they needed to wait for a new generation of critics to come along for albums like Agharta and On The Corner to be appreciated for what they were, instead of hated for what they weren't.
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