I just got back from a three week trip to Paris, I was studying with an exchange program- working to improve my French. Of course, when you put a bunch of teenagers in a beautiful famous city with unlimited bars, parks, clubs, museums and restaurants with zero supervision, they're going to do a little more than study in their free time. I went out pretty much every night with my friends from the p... » Continue Reading
"We define ourselves as sound-scientists, or as musical workers. Every day we go to the studio, work on the instruments, talk to the engineers – it’s not a musician’s existence, in the way of rehearsing with instruments.” This quote, from Ralf Hutter, is a perfect summation of the band Kraftwerk, the German term for "power plant" or "power station". The group started in the 1960s, and are known t... » Continue Reading
Ok, I'm drunk and tired but I'd like to post- so this is my top ten songs of the week. No explanation, just a list. - Serrated Edge (The Dead Milkmen) - She Walks On Me (Hole) - Over The Electric Grapevine (Primus) - Sweet '69 (Babes I » Continue Reading
Another request from a friend, I'm actually only somewhat familiar with the band myself but I can appreciate a lot of the more mainstream songs, as well as some others, so I had to do some listening. (POSER ALERT POSER POSER POSER EVERYONE POINT AND LAUGH) Obviously the Red Hot Chili Peppers is like one of those cult classic bands your dad is gonna crashout on you for not knowing (if y » Continue Reading
This review/rant/deepdive/whatever was by request of a friend of mine, if anyone has suggestions or recommendations for bands to look at I'm all ears. Plastic Tree formed in 1993, based in Chiba, Japan. At this point the Visual Kei movement has been going for thirteen years, which is one of my favorites. Visual Kei music and fashion took inspiration from traditional Japanese styles and » Continue Reading
Recently my friend recommended to me the band The Dead Milkmen, my first impression being the song Serrated Edge from the album "Big Lizard In My Backyard". There's something about these kinds of songs that just scratch my brain: I love the whiny singing and that happy-go-lucky way Rodney Linderman has of talking. Also, of course, their bass-heavy music is MUAH (totally not biased as a bass player... » Continue Reading
Bad Brains was one of the first punk bands I got into a little over a year ago, it's also the band that fans immediately refer to when questioned about diversity within punk culture. Ironically, the band objects to the title of "punk rock" being used to define their music, could've fooled me. They're most popular for their first album, released in 1982, "Bad Brains" (+ points for the creative name... » Continue Reading