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#248> MARCH 13th '08 - new issue here every Thursday afternoon |
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you want to partake in the slaughter of machines? |
 The
song came in and fell out of my brain again, where were we? What phone
call? Why not? A vicarious sense of punching and collaboration with the
enemy and too much music, too much good music and....
These are the things that
have been in our ears this week, please explore and if it sounds interesting
then just hit the links and make your own minds up, our reviews and thoughts
are mere signposts designed to guide you to the things you might like to
feast on yourselves... don’t you just love the instant hit of the www.
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IS THIS WHY YOU BOOKMARKED ME? |
| Scrap
Club is happening this Saturday
Do
you want to partake in the slaughter of machines? Swing a sledgehammer
and release the trapped creative energy that was put into the making of
computers, fridges, pianos, washing machines and other everyday objects
-> That’s a holistic way of saying smash them up baaad. Its taking place
this Saturday the 15th March 5pm - 11pm in Area10 which is right behind
Peckham Library in Peckham Square London SE15 5JT. [Peckham Rye is 5min
on the train from London Bridge]. It will cost you £7 in advance
and slightly more on the door. www.scrapclub.co.uk
/ www.area10.info
WET
SOUNDS is the UK’s first underwater sound festival is open to proposals
for audio work. Go to www.newtoy.org/wetsounds.swf
for more details. Deadline is 12th May so enough time to create something
people will be immersed in literally, will hear through their bones floating
around. Guidelines, application form and criteria are on the website,
they say they are open to surprises. www.newtoy.org
is responsible for this (no! Not that New Toy, this is a new New Toy)
SPAX
is playing a live classical music mash up at NonClassical. Different kinds
of classical music mashed up and glitched on the 2nd April at the Macbeth
Pub on Hoxton Street (London) with Elysian Quartet. Its free to get in!!
“Elysian Quartet The UKs leading alternative, contemporary string Quartets
’Feisty boundary pushers, four supremely talented classical musicians’”
- www.myspace.com/nonclassicalmusic
And
a link for online stimulation www.greylodge.org
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THINGS TO GET SHOUTING ABOUT? |
| MESSAGE FROM H.M GOVERNMENT...
Motorhead - epetition reply
11 March 2008
We received a petition asking:
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Nominate Lemmy from
Motorhead for a knighthood."
“Lemmy's achievements in
music are well known and respected. It is easy to see why so many people
want to see his record formally recognised. This is underlined by the hundreds
of people who have signed the e-petition on the No 10 website calling for
him to be granted a knighthood. Your support has been carefully noted".
Members of the public can
nominate individuals for honours by visiting the UK Honours System - www.honours.gov.uk.
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DEMO TIME |
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just going to tell you about the very very best once a week, no more time
for the average, only the most exciting - we're very very selective, when
we tell you it's good then it really is goooooooood
DEMO
OF THE WEEK
KONTAKTE – Instrumental
three piece from London, a fine blend of drones and positively repetitive
post-rock textures that build in to anthemic relish. Transient beats and
delicate hints of warm distortion. Pleasant, easy bits of restrained refined
Sigur Ros and Spiritualized that uncoil in their own way in their own time
and relaxing uncluttered space – www.myspace.com/kontakteuk
Last
week's demo of the week - ATLAS
Previous
demo's of the week -THE HAROLD WARTOOTH
/ COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
/ EATEN BY TIGERS
/ MOLLOY / THE
ATROCITY EXHIBIT / 2
OUT OF 3 RULE / THE
JACKPOT GOLDEN BOYS / FANTAPLASTIC
/ YONATAN NIV
DEMO
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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NEW ALBUMS WE’RE LISTENING TO THIS WEEK |
| This
week the best new things we’ve been listening to were...
ALBUM
OF THE WEEK
BURMESE / CADAVER EYES –
split CD (Heart And Crossbone) - Hardboiled noise, extreme beyone extreme,
bathing in fuzz and barbed wire and violent feedback and grunting and screaming
and somewhere in there there just might be some conventional musical instruments
(maybe?). A split album, “demented twins in musical crime”, just where
one band ends and the next begins is beyond my ears – does it matter anyway?
Apparently there are three vocalists in Burmese, who knows? Could just
be a herd of wild boars loose in a studio stomping on equipment and making
some kind of artistic sense as the half eaten engineer screams for his
life – glorious stuff, love it! Grindcore, slices of doom, electronics
and “agonizing mechanism”. Extreme noise terror for disciples of Lustmord
and endless short circuit buzz and electo shock treatment that ascends
to a higher level of cognitive surge. Manic artistry and the sound of your
crumbling life being tortured by leach women and love it, love it, love
it! Yes! - www.myspace.com/cadavereyes
or www.myspace.com/burmeseisdead
or www.hcrecords.com
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CHECK OUT
F*CK BUTTONS – Street Horrrsing
(ATP/R) – Debut six track album, debut album proper from Bristol’s finely
named F*** Buttons. Comforting drones and tingling circuits of progressive
hard-wired buzz – a lazy person would talk of a post post-rock sound built
of a love of Krautism and tribal beats and Neu (and maybe Oroonies?). We’re
never lazy though and those refined restrained screams and things that
bubble up from underneath can’t be ignored for long. Fuck Buttons are both
gorgeously relaxing and disturbingly harrowing both at the same time –
takes a special band to combine the two, gorgeously harrowing and disturbingly
relaxing, a sound to really wash in, a sound that wraps around you and
cocoons you in a strangling claustrophobic instrumental beauty. Ribs
Out is wonderfully tribal and alive like the woods with the smell of
his coming, electronically pagan and caught in the shadow of an iron age.
OK,
Let’s Talk About Magic, for that is what the duo have conjured up here
(that was lazy of me), hey look, dancing and architecture yet again. Fuck
Buttons are challengingly unique, rewarding musical scapegrace and wireless
fiery pyres and just when you’re thinking you have them worked out they
swipe you off your feet and demand you go somewhere else with them and
their sweet love for planet earth and their transmissions of confrontation
and their violent contradictions and their racing spirit rise... fine fine
album... www.fuckbuttons.co.uk
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NO NO ZERO – Rough Stuff
(Signed By Force) - Some kind of self mutilating Dead Kens jumping on Turbonegro
and Pere Ubo at the same time punk rawk from Canada. A concert album about
sex and penetrating jerkisms for Stooges/Germs/X fans everywhere – we all
like to jerk and don’t ask how those carpet burns got there. They got power
to please (and Eurosleaze). www.signedbyforce.com
ADRENICIDE – Raging Full
One (Thrashard) – Proper old school crossover hardcore thrash metal of
an early Suicidal Tendancies/D.R.I/Stupids/Broken Bones/Exodus nature.
The real moshing up-turned bassball cap rip-crunching Overkill loving full
on DIY deal. Chant-along bits, circle jerks and bouncing off the walls
of Hammersmith Clarrendon - all train-wrecked and skate skate skate like
f**k im to the side of a ten ton truck. They got it nailed down and they
got it nailed down real good. They’re from Slough (someone has to be).
It fair does your heart good to hear it done properly don’t it Crunch.
Mosh ‘n thrash in to a time machine back to 1986 and go buy this from a
man called Kelv Hellrazer
down in the basement of Shades www.myspace.com/adrenicide1
LUNAR DUNES – From Above
(Lunar Dunes Recordings) – Pleasant flowing pleasing soothing mellow space/prog
flavoured instrumental rock that would have fitted in well during the glory
days of Club Dog over at the Robey (that’s the second mention of a much
missed old London venue this week, sounds equal places). Think classic
Ozric Tentacles, Ullulators, O’Roonies, Hawkwind, Gong style riffing and
floating and locked on Master Builder grooving... Lunar Dunes are from
London, they play classic mellow space-psych-prog and if you like any of
the bands mentioned you’ll love this well recorded well played gentle album.
Neat artwork as well. www.myspace.com/lunardunes
MINISTRY AND CO-CONSPIRATORS
- Cover Up (13th Planet) – Parting shot from the Ministry team. Currently
on a farewell tour (yeah, sure, expect the surviving members to announce
a comeback tour in ooooohhhh, about three years then – does anyone believe
any band who say they’re on a farewell tour these days?). Al Jourgenson
and Ministry with all kinds of guests people from Prong, Fear Factory and
such laying industrial waste to a load of rock classics. Recordings that
have been kicking around here and there during the band’s lifetime all
pulled together on one handy CD. Worth the price of the album just for
that legendary 1000 Homo DJs mutilation of Sabbath’s Supernaut.
Caused one hell of rumpus when it first came out back in the 90’s. And
hey, at least they’ve got Space Truckin’ on here (see Deep Purple
review further down, come on! Come on...!). That’s seriously heavy version
of Black Betty! Hard to mess up Mountain’s Mississippi Queen,
Ministry didn’t. There’s rather tasty Motorhead-paced ram-raiding industrial
speed-metal version of Roadhouse Blues (the old Doors tune). All
ends nicely with a respectfully restrained version of Louis Armstrong’s
Wonderful
World – is that Al himself on vocals? A fitting end to things.
You know, we shouldn’t let Ministry pass on by without taking a moment
to remember and acknowledge just what a great big deal and indeed influence
they were back at their creative height of the 90’s. Ministry really were
one of those bands that shaped the alternative musical landscape, I guess
to fully appreciate them you had to be there at the time. I kind of hope
this is the end, it is a fitting way to bring the curtain down. An excellent
compilation from a very fine band indeed. www.ministrymusic.org
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE
– My Bloody Underground (A Recordings) – Who knows who is Anton’s band
this time around? Dr. Anton A Newcombe is the leader/dictator and this
“is the first Brian Jonestown Massacre album in four years, recorded with
select members from the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Icelandic musicians and
Mark Gardener (Ride)” – No actual band members credited, Gardener (an old
hero of Anton’s) gets a song writing credit on one track. Released on Anton’s
own label A (guess no other label could put up with him anymore? Been there,
done that, certainly ‘interesting’). “This album offers a mix of the traditional
Brian Jonestown Massacre sound with a more experimental avant-guard (sic)
approach” - what that actually means is some of it sounds like old
BJM - and yes there are hints of those familiar trademarks that can make
the Brian Jonestown Massacre sound so damn good - and then some of it (a
lot of it, most of it...) sounds like Anton’s got away with far too many
dodgy narcotics and anyone who pointed out that the emperor had no clothes
on probably got fired (or shot at, or both...). Lot of what sounds
like half-formed drugged-crazed psychedelic self indulgent nonsense here.
And a song called Automatic Faggot For The People appears to be a little
dubious – can’t make out what the lyrics are, sounds like a bunch of completely
out of it Hawkwind fans having a jam session at Stonehenge at 4.00am...
Four years ago And This Is Our Music was a classic album, maybe Anton’s
best, we rightly raved about it... this one? Well let us politely say he’s
made far better albums, and besides the rather excellent and slightly paranoid
seventh track – Golden Frost (I think that’s what its called, not
the greatest/most legable album cover either) – we’ll pass, leave him in
his cloud, say this is a little disappointing and move on – www.brianjonestownmassacre.com
ALBUM
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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LIVE |
| Ahhhhh, so many good gigs,
so little time - Monade, Das Wanderlust, You Slut, Truckers Of Husk
- the words will all come out in the wash later on... |
 Live
previously - DR SLAGGLEBERRY
/ AIRBOURNE / SPIT
LIKE THIS / MOUSE
/ GRANTURA /
TO
THE BONES /DäLEK / DESTRUCTO
STORMBOTS / GUAPO
/ MOLLOY / CREEDLE
LIVE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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SINGLES |
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time...
SINGLE
OF THE WEEK
CATNAP
- I Am Pied Piper (Snakes & Ladders) - Wow, it's hard to put a finger
on what makes Catnap. An urgent male voice over stripped down guitarbassdrums,
calling it 'quirky' and 'angular' doesn't do it - the angles are chunky,
the quirk factor is a tough eccentricity that means business too much to
be remotely tweely annoying. Straight outta Indietown (Brighton to
most) Catnap share an outlook, if not an actual conscious movement, with
the other scattered bands around the UK currently doing worked-out, imaginative,
fairly complex song-based rock - amongst others, Catsncatsncats, The Furious
Sleep, The Seigfried Sassoon, Maths Class, Rolotomassi - some grinding
their way to recognition, some carving lonely furrows. All that avant-adventurousness
will mean nothing, in the long run, without a distinctive personality at
each core, and Catnap join the fray with a voice of their own. The lyrics
are intriguing, the voice suggesting a potentially mad frontman - an English-sounding,
Mark E Smith ranter type rather than an American screamer. That voice is
kind of easy(er) on the ears than many: no peer-pressured cookie-monstering,
just a manic intelligence. The combination of straighforward tunes
and skewed narrative suggesting a weird cult to buy into as much as a band.
Catnap don't go mad for OTT math showing off, using stops and starts and
twists to tell some kind of musical story in the way of Cardiacs and Pavement
and Deerhoof and the Fall and Lapsus Linguae. This three-track single is
a nice intro to Catnap, though opener I Am The Pied Piper isn't the best
of the trio: that award goes to Ex-moralist with that heavy, fat riffage,
precision-targeting drums, great tune chunks and the declaration there's
no structure to this song . Catnap have delivered on the promise
of Have You Seen Larry - including pleasing artwork to go on the front
of this pleasing 7" single (once more). You can order this online at www.snakesandladders.org.uk
ALSO
CHECK OUT
EIGHT
PAGE PULLOUT – Stand Up (Lockjaw) – Wonderfully uplifting melodic harmonized
punk-pop that stands up and stands out from the crowd. Five track EP and
they have a stylish construction to their uplifting positive pop, a hopeful
anthemic edge, they just make you feel good. Eight Page Pullout are from
Scotland, they probably appeal to those who like Jimmy Eat Taking Back
Sunday, they have an edge of their own though and yes they do have a slight
Runrig/Idlewild/Big Country edge – a fine band from Scotland with something
a little extra, something that stands out from the crowd, something to
believe in. Yes, one person can make a difference – positive hopeful punk-pop.
. www.myspace.com/eightpagepullout
or www.lockjawrecords.co.uk
HELLO
WEMBLEY/THE TROUBLE WITH ME split 7” (Josaka) – More bratty scenester baiting
and pin-up bites and swagger from Hello Wembley – you’ll either love ‘em
or hate ‘em, for now we love them. Think a gang of Happy Mondays from Reading
on a ram-raid mission to Hoxton to mess up your skinny fit jeans. The Trouble
With Me are on the other side with a tedious half-paced indie shuffling
about song about smoking or something – who listens to b-sides anyway?
www.myspace.com/hellowembley
or www.josaka.com
NFD
– When The Sun Dies (Jungle) – Goth orientated darkwave hard rock killing
jokes from the band who evolved out of the ashes of those Fields of The
Nephilim. First taste of their forthcoming Deeper Visions album. Brooding
dramatic industrial goth-driven heaviness from one of the best bands the
black hordes have right now... www.nfd.web
Last
week's single of the week - WHAT WOULD JESUS
DRIVE? / FRIGHTENED RABBIT
Previously
- CAVALERA CONSPIRACY / SILVERY
/ PICTURES / STE
McCABE / THE DEATH SET / KUNK
/ DR SLAGGLEBERRY / HERZOGA
/ THE DROPKICK MURPHYS / ONE
MORE GRAIN / PLAAYDOH / HELLO
WEMBLEY / UNDERWORLD
SINGLE
REVIEW ARCHIVES |
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| 'RE-ISSUE/best
of OF THE WEEK |
| DEEP
PURPLE – Best Of (EMI) – How many Best Of/greatest hits cash ins have there
been from Purple now? (well from Purple’s label, not clear how much the
band were involved in this latest compilation). Released to tie in with
their classic Hush being used in a television advert. Classic stuff though,
from one of England’s finest hard rock bands ever – I guess the car advert
introduces them to new ears. Not sure if any of the material they’re recorded
since they reformed back in the mid 80’s really cuts it enough to make
a best of collection, I’d have ended this with the brilliance of
Burn. Not sure how When A Blind Man Cries makes it on to a best of either,
a track rightly left off the classic Machine Head album because Blackmore
insisted it wasn’t good enough (he was right). Nasty fade out on Woman
From Tokyo as well – the whole thing, including the artwork, feels a little
thrown together in a rush. Still, you’ve got some classic tracks here –
Hush, Child In Time - one of the most beautiful songs ever, although there
are better live (or Ian Gillan Band) recordings and once again what an
annoying butchered fade out!!! You’ve got Black Night, Highway Star, the
iconic Smoke On The Water (no Space Truckin or...) , you have some classic
70’s hard rock here from one of the finest bands ever and if you don’t
know Deep Purple this is decent enough – got and listen to an un-butchered
version of Child In Time first though. Great band, some classic tracks,
I just wish they were treated with the reverence this fine legacy deserves
– you wouldn’t get Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin thrown together like this
would you?
Hush
is re-issued as a download only single this month,
ALSO
CHECK OUT
CARPATHIAN
FOREST – Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Wood (Peaceville) – Re-issue of
the 1995 debut and some intensely challenging primal black metal that still
sounds good thirteen years on. Dark doomy, pushing at the boundaries and
still sounding relevant when most underground black/death/extreme metal
really doesn’t pass the test of time. A scene and sound that’s ever evolving,
this is one of the classics of the genre – www.peaceville.com
PREVIOUSLY
- CANDLEMASS / MORVISCOUS
/ CURRENT 93 / TYPE
O NEGATIVE / N.W.A / STRIBORG
/ THE WEIRDOS / THE
MOB / ARSONISTS GET ALL THE GIRLS / THE
VERVE / KHAYA / GREASY
TRUCKERS PARTY / HERE AND NOW |
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MEDIA, VIDEO, PRINT AND.... |
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you give us a moment again?
PREVIOUSLY
- PELICAN /
GIANT
PAW /
AURAL
INNOVATIONS / PARALLEL
WORLDS, PARALLEL LIVES TV documentary / NEVER
MIND THE SEX PISTOLS: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY – DVD / THE
ZINE DIRECTORY / BATH
BOMB / NEMESIS
TO GO #4 / DVD:
MIGHTY ROBOT: SLEEP WHEN YOU ARE DEAD |
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247 - ATLAS, FRIGHTENED RABBIT, WHAT WOULD JESUS DRIVE?, B FOR BANG.,
THE MONO GALAXY, NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS, BLACK CROWES, TANK 86, FOOT
VILLAGE, SINE STAR PROJECT, SAHG, HEADCHARGER, GRENOUER, THE ERUPTORS,
MINUS, THE NOTORIOUS HI-FI KILLERS, ETERNAL DEFORMITY, OCTOBER ALL OVER,
FROM PLAN TO PROGRESS, I CONCUR, THE KISSAWAY TRAIL...
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246 - Out in print right now, March 2008 edition
ORGAN
245 - VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, YOU SLUT!, LAST HARBOUR, JENNY HUYSTON,
HATE ETERNAL DR SLAGGLEBERRY, AIRBOURNE, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, CRY PARROT,
PRE ...
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244 - SON LUX, TALK, THE HIGH WIRE , SPIT LIKE THIS, DENNIS HOPPER
CHOPPERS , SILVERY, MOUSE, BIRDBATH, FUNERAL CRASHERS, THE HAROLD WARTOOTH,
COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND, KIDNAPPER BELL, THE DIVINE BAZE ORCHESTRA
, GRAND ARCHIVES, PITCHBLEND, ACHENAR, FAMILY MACHINE, TO-MERA, CITIZEN
KEYNE, OPEN THE SKIES, FAVEZ, HELP GEORGE TABB, DON AIREY, STATE RADIO,
MAGNUM. STIGMA, ANDRE MATOS, LES SAVY FAV, MENOMENA, CANDLEMASS...
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243 - SURROUNDED, BALTIC FLEET, PICTURES, LIGHT PUPIL DILATE, RAFTER,
RICHARD SWIFT, EFTERKLANG, STE McCABE, EATEN BY TIGERS, AUTOCOIL, SEEDS
OF DOUBT, STAGECOACH, ALEC K REDFEARN, CHANGING MODES, JUNKBOY, THE ALPS,
FLESH EATING FOUNDATION, EBONY ARK, PORCUPINE TREE, SUICIDAL WINDS, THE
CROW CLUB, GRANTURA, THE DeRELLAS, ALICE AND THE MAJESTY, MORVISCOUS...
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242 - CHRIS SCHLARB, DANAVA, BAUHAUS, THE DEAL WAS FOR THE DIAMOND,
FIGHTING WITH WIRE, THE DICKIES, TUSK. PELICAN, ORCHARD TRIP, COBWEB, THE
LOVED ONES, AVERSE SEFIRA, ATLANTIS, THE HUGUENOTS, FACEBREAKER, ASCENSION
OF THE WATCHERS, THE DEATH SET. KUNK, THE BLAKES, YOUNG HOLLYWOOD, CURRENT
93...
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241 - Out in print right now, FEB 2008 edition
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240 - NADA SURF, HARLOTS, THIS IS HELL, DYNAMITE 8, TO THE BONES, HERZOGA,
LOS, DR SLAGGLEBERRY, THE $HIT, MOLLOY, CHALOU SAINT JUDE, FABONACCI, AGES
OF STONES, THE SOUND OF THE CATACOMBS, TYPE O NEGATIVE...
ORGAN
239 - TIME OF ORCHIDS, ATLAS SOUND, PLASTIC TOYS, EVANGELICALS, DRIVE
BY TRUCKERS, ROTTEN SOUND, LOS SALVADORES, THE ATROCITY EXHIBIT, THE HYENAS,
ENDORPHINS, BEYOND THE VOID, DäLEK, DESTRUCTO STORMBOTS, GUAPO, THE
DROPKICK MURPHYS, INTERVURT....
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