Archive for April, 2010
Tecla Esposito, Unmasked
edit: This is no longer available to download free from bandcamp, but you can buy it through Amazon and Itunes Tecla’s freshly released first album Strangers in Masks has been my go to album for the past two weeks. When I’m not listening to something for an assignment I cue up the album right at [...]
Keretta – ‘Vilayer’
In Vilayer, New Zealand’s Keretta have crafted a heavy, soupy album that drowns the listener in riffs that would crush the sturdiest of submarines. Forsaking the lyrics, often the weakest element of stoner or doom rock, this three-piece has focused on the best elements, creating a soundscape that is at turns nearly so abstract as [...]
The Bombettes, Deep Sleep, No Friends, Night Birds @ Bruar Falls 4/8/10
After two great singles and the promise of an upcoming album, Thursday’s The Bombettes show at Bruar Falls was probably one of my most highly anticipated shows for the Spring. The Bombettes are a five-piece all-girl pop-punk band out of Sweden with a sound that tempts me to use the word “feisty” when describing it [...]
Punk Rawk Roundup
Defect Defect – Self/Titled 12” (Residue Records) – This first release from the Portland, Oregon band is a great slab of melodic punk with a strong political element that goes beyond “death to the right wing” myopic tropes that hang over the heads of punk rock since the 70s. One thing that I found is [...]
Emanuel and the Fear – ‘Listen’
Emanuel and the Fear’s debut album Listen is a baroque valentine to excess. Sporting eleven members and billed as a “Rock Orchestra” the band has crafted songs that push themselves to the forefront of your attention, waving their arms around screaming “look at me, look at me” as though terrified you won’t accept it unless [...]
The Bronx, Violent Soho, Mariachi El Bronx @ Music Hall of Williamsburg 4/2/2010
Last night Music Hall of Williamsburg played host to Los Angeles’s amazing punk band The Bronx in two formats. Headlining as The Bronx they played over an hour of the amazingly frenetic rock-n-roll for which they’re known, but also making their Brooklyn debut as Mariachi el Bronx, the self described “all white guys playing mariachi [...]