For the love of music
Hi Mike! I’m so psyched ‘n’ enthused to be interviewing you regarding your electronic rock project Dangerous Muse. It’s been a super-busy time for you since the release of Red this past November, the 1st of 3 EPs which will be compiled into your debut album. What’s the vibe like for you now? It's great to see how people are … [Read more...]
Hiya Dan! I’ve had the grand pleasure of hearing both of your band’s albums, the 2008 debut You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into and 2011’s Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You, and you definitely redefine and realign what is labeled ‘electronic rock’ these days! Your latest album is extremely aurally varied compared to your … [Read more...]
There Is Light (But It's Not For Me) is the tenth studio album from Danish death metalers Illdisposed, who started way back in the dark days of 1991. And, with that knowledge, my first thought as a newcomer to the band is how fresh they sound, as their tracks on the album have a vibrancy that is found more often within new bands, rather than … [Read more...]
Batwings Catwings – Peacock Collection EP Indian Gold Records http://claytv.blogspot.com/ L.A.-based Batwings Catwings recently released this EP on Indian Gold Records and the band throws down 4 energetic and enticing tracks where dance-pop pep and melody mixes equally with punk rock menace and noise. The urge is great to shout along … [Read more...]
More improbable transformations have taken place, but it would be hard to introduce an uninformed listener to both Godflesh and Pale Sketcher and expect that listener to conclude they were both the brainchild of the same person. Even Jesu has been too much of a departure for many of Justin Broadrick’s earlier fans, trading in the aggressive for … [Read more...]
It’s a daunting task to approach a band’s overtly-proclaimed concept album for a casual spin when it’s meant to be listened to for deep layers of meaning. Such is the case for the second album by Italian band N.A.M.B. (the band says that what the acronym stands for varies, but “Noise And Music Bombshell” could be appropriate). To … [Read more...]
Space rock as a genre never panned out to be as goofy or fun as it could have been. As motion pictures and television have proven, corny spacesuits, freeze-dried dinners, zero-gravity weightlessness, alternative physical laws, strange-looking aliens, and brightly-colored bleeping buttons provide fertile ground for an exploration of human character, … [Read more...]