One Man Rock And Roll Band: An Interview With Mark Sultan
"The preparation is in NOT preparing. Since I am alone, controlling all of the instruments, myself, I find it more liberating to never practice and not make set-lists, etc... To not adhere to any particular set of expectations. It's more fun. The downside is that when I break the band up, the arguments are usually...
Exhumed – Your Funeral, My Feast
Do you, the discerning music fan, ever find yourself missing Carcass? I’m not talking about the “we’re-serious-musicians-now” Carcass of Heartwork or Swansong but when Carcass was REALLY a ghoulish force to be reckoned with, filling song after song with stomach-churning lyrics (and a dual vocal delivery to match), downtuned riffs that sounded like blunt force trauma to...
Jaap Blonk – Flux De Bouche
Okay, look, I know that there are two very distinct ways of dealing with hearing Dutch sound artist Jaap Blonk’s work for the first time. (1.) This is a joke! This is a put-on! I could do better! (Then why aren’t you?) (2.) Realzing that Blonk’s music is exciting and strange, but very clearly in the tradition of Kurt Schwtters...
NobFest Rising!
St. Augustine's Nobby's is throwing an extremely loud party and wants YOU to come. Promoter Nick Commoditie gives us the lowdown on three days worth of rock, punk, and garage goodness going down this very weekend.
Willie Evans Jr. – Nerd English
The unitiated might recognize the name “Willie Evans Jr” from an all-too-breezy hip-hop issue of SPIN Magazine, where Evans was grouped in with a number of MCs who apparently still think it’s 1993. Two problems with that: (1) It’s untrue, and (2) even if it was, what of it? That was a year where the musical boundaries...
Mass Appeal Madness: An Interview with NrIII
"Lyrically and musically, I feel that this is the first album to truly realize my goal for NRIII. It is looking at the depression, anger, and evil that is inherent in our communities, in our shackled capitalistic lives. I feel that modern life is a very soulless and mechanical existence. We are slaves to jobs,...
