Archive for June, 2010
Notes from a performace by Pocahaunted
Did you ever make noise into a fan as a kid and listen to what came out the other end as the swirling blades cut your voice into smaller sounds? Drone is a lot like that. The hum of the electronics, the manipulation of your own voice to create something eerie, with a warmth and [...]
The Men – ‘Immaculada’
The Men’s first full length album Immaculada entices and repulses. Relying on a lot of current tropes in the “best” of hardcore music right now it also injects a lot of now forgotten or ignored sounds back into the musical conversation which is the punk scene. This has the effect where half of the album [...]
Lemuria, Slingshot Dakota, Black Wine @ Death By Audio 6/4/10
Friday night was another in a long series of all ages punk show at the venerable Death By Audio. Where “local” acts Black Wine (from New Jersey), Slingshot Dakota (From Brooklyn and Pennsylvania), The Measure (SA) (from New Jersey) and Lemuria (Upstate NY) intersected in the middle of tours, about to launch out on tours [...]
Tobacco, Soundpool, Sunglasses, Telephoned @ Glasslands 6/2/10
Last night was the 4th anniversary party for music marketing company Musebox, and they took the opportunity to throw themselves a party with, oddly, no one on their roster performing. Instead it was Telephoned, Sunglasses, Soundpool and Tobacco with free 24 oz cans of PBR and one of the more diverse crowds I’d yet seen [...]