Sep 30, 2010
Cave In | "Until Your Heart Stops" Hydra Head
The 1998 metal classic that is just as relevant today as it was 12 years ago.
Converge's Jacob Bannon did the entire layout for the double LP on Hydra Head in 1998. Bannon also lends his vocal talents on the first track, "Moral Eclipse". This album changed the entire Metal/Hardcore genre by stepping up with a truly innovative sound that you hear today in bands like Mastodon, Baroness, and Every Time I Die. With Elements of Slayer, Pantera, Metallica and Maiden... Cave In straight up changed the game and this record was hands down the catalyst.
Check out "Until Your Heart Stops" HERE
It's The Chef Raekwon...
Raekwon
"Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, PT II"
Iceal
2009
I'll cut the BS...You know the deal, son. Do what you do.
Here ya go... "OnlyBuiltPT2"
Sep 29, 2010
BABY WOODROSE | "I'm Gonna Make You Mine" 7inch
Ain't nothin' gonna stop the rock tonight... I cannot get enough of these Danish Rockers!
Baby Woodrose
"I'm Gonna Make You Mine"
Crusher Records
2007
“I’m Gonna Make You Mine” is a beautiful, mid-tempo, melodic and organ-driven psych rocker that has both acoustic guitar and nice fuzz sounds. It’s a really great number that sort of reminds me of 13th Floor Elevators. “Information Overload” is a straight-forward, tight and excellent garage blast with plenty of energy. The tinkling piano adds even more punch to the song, and this rather heavy track rocks like there’s no tomorrow.
Download "I'm gonna make you mine" HERE
Jim Jarmusch lays plans for a STOOGES film...
Via The Perlich Post
No, acclaimed auteur Jim Jarmusch isn't planning on making a Three Stooges movie – however entertaining it may be seeing Tom Waits, John Lurie and Bill Murray doing some slapstick comedy together in the roles of Shemp, Larry and Moe – it's a documentary about the confrontational Ann Arbor rock 'n' roll band The Stooges. In addition to some rare vintage performance clips, Jarmusch has apparently already filmed eight hours with Iggy Pop talking about all things Stooges going back to his childhood in a Ypsilanti trailer park as the filmmaker noted during an interview at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Monticello, New York which he co-curated.
Sep 28, 2010
New Drugs Dragons LP finally dropped today and HOLY SHIT!!!
Drugs Dragons
"S/T"
Dusty Medical
2010
Well...It's official! This is THE grimiest, filthiest(in every sense of the word), purest rock and roll album I've heard in years. Sleazy licks and chords wail out of Tony Sagger's guitar amidst awesome tongue and cheek lyrics bellowing from vocalist, Puke Drugs. It hits you in the fucking throat right from the get go with the track "Carnivore". Elements of Psychedelia start to bleed in as the record moves on creating a unique sonic vibe that a lot of bands lack. The only way to describe this sound is...Anthemic! With song titles like... "(I'm In A) Braingrave", "Chuds In Love". and "Drug Vultures" It's a guaranteed party!
Download "Carnivore" HERE
Download "Drug Vultures" HERE
Download "Predator Weapons" HERE
DON'T FORGET...
DRUGS DRAGONS RECORD RELEASE PARTY...
This Saturday Oct. 2 2010
BURNING SONS
HEAD ON ELECTRIC
DEATH DREAM
˚˚˚Featuring˚˚˚
The Get Drunk DJs
OCT 2 2010
@ Club Garibaldi 2501 St. Superior Milwaukee, WI
USA
Now for some Chuds in Love
Pet Genius | "S/T" LP
Pet Genius
"S/T"
Hydra Head
2007
Since his time in Cave In, Stephen Brodsky has had an active following (and release calender). Their 2003 album Antenna landed a major label (which didn't last long) release and presented a poppier, relatively softer sound that wasn't generally accepted by the long-time fans. This direction was also displayed in his solo project preceding the label jump, and in newer projects New Idea Society and last years short lived Octave Museum. The sunshiny day approach worked well but left many people wondering where the big riff went. Well, Brodsky is back in business with Cave In counterpart Hydra Head, and he's brought some old friends with him. Pet Genius is rounded out by another part Octave Museum on bass and the Doomriders drum demon, officially Johnny Coolbreeze and J.R. John Junior, respectively. They released the unreleased Elvis Demo not too long ago and toured lightly, which left many in quiet anticipation of this self-titled full length. The album opener "Doomsday" shares the dirty reverb and stripped-down song structure that the EP introduced, as Brodsky howls his oh's the whole way through until they stumble into the more peaceful "The Visiting Dynamiter." This pattern repeats itself once more past the would-be hit single "Walls of Etiquette" and "Man of the Mountain," where the simple riffs and steady beats leave me puzzling what Black Sabbath would have sounded like at Woodstock. A curious double take sitting at the center of the album finds Brodsky in release of some salty noodling, and the power half-hour is over after two more bass lines you couldn't chew on enough to soften up.
Pet Genius is Boston's answer to a savvier White Stripes, the kind of noise rock a Beach Boys raised eight-year-old Buzz Osborne dreamt of. It's more of a nuisance pet than a genius, something that keeps outsmarting you despite its lower trophic level, something you can't see hiding under the glass coffee table and behind those fauxhogany rabbit statues you keep by the front door. Not quite as catchy as "Get Out" and not nearly as heavy as "Moral Eclipse," we are looking at a new era that is still unmistakably Brodsky, something that lacks in complexity and originality but redeems itself in execution. Your neighbors won't be confident enough to yell at you for playing it too loudly. -- LG
Download Pet Genius HERE
Check out more here...
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It's Cave in Week @ the bloody glove this week...
Why Not Kick off Cave In Week with a SUPER HEAVY Hydra Head Classic...
Zozobra
"Bird of Prey"
Hydra Head
2008
This is Caleb Scofield's (Cave In, Old Man Gloom) second release under the moniker, Zozobra, entitled "Bird of Prey". For the sophomore effort Caleb enlisted Isis' Aaron Turner for the recording and mixing, not only that...Aaron Turner also plays drums on "Bird Of Prey." Zozobra uses doom, psychedelic, sludge and traditional metal to construct songs that are noisy and groovy. The low end rumbles as downtuned guitars deliver ominous riffs.
Zozobra changes things up, with some songs being reasonably straightforward and others much more progressive and experimental. Layers of instruments build into a cacophony that's crushing without being overwhelming.
Scofield's vocals range from vicious screams and violent yells reminiscent actually of Stephen Brodsky's vocal style on Cave In's 1998 Classic -- "Until Your Heart Stops", and also one the of the raddest things about this record is that Stephen Brodsky (Cave In, Kid Kilowatt, Stephen Brodsky) lends his voice for some of the actual singing parts that are much darker than what you'd here on most of his recent material. It's the passion and emotion in Caleb's very powerful voice though that makes "Bird Of Prey" the Hydra head classic it is! It is incredibly well produced, constructed, and when the 30 something minute record comes to a close, just like the end of Floor's "S/T" lp... you wish there were a couple more songs.
--D. Barski
Track Listing
1. Emanate
2. Heavy With Shadows
3. Treacherous
4. Heartless Enemy
5. Big Needles
6. Sharks That Circle
7. In Jetstreams free mp3 link
Sep 27, 2010
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More great DOOM... Southern Lord's Earthride latest now up @ thebloodyglove
Earthride
"Something Wicked"
2010
Southern Lord
Maryland doom has become a hallowed institution within the international heavy music scene. Whether it's the crabs, the crime or the salty sea air, whatever the magic ingredient is that inspires so many sweet riffin' bands to form is alive and well within the hairy chests of Dave Sherman and his merry band of bikers. Earthride are fresh from the studio, with a spankin' new record in hand.
With 'Something Wicked,' they more than prove that the proud tradition of Maryland doom will continue on. "I think it's in the water," Sherman told Noisecreep. "And because a lot of the music that comes out of here is inspired by Black Sabbath,Witchfinder General, Pentagram, the Obsessed and Asylum!"
For the band's fourth release, they decided to eschew the traditional route and instead take matters into their own hands, creating Earth Brain Records. 'Something Wicked' was recorded with Chris Kozlowski (Blue Cheer, Pentagram, Spirit Caravan, Trouble) on old-school A-DATS.
Sherman explained, "We decided to release the record ourselves, because we didn't want to involve a middleman. We wanted to be more like a fiercely independent Fugazi! We will get all the profits without anybody dipping their hand in the pot. We've been on Southern Lord in the past, which was awesome, but we're trying to handle it ourselves."
Not only will the record come lovingly packaged from Earthride themselves, but the inside booklet of the CD will include a little something extra for the more morbid (or accident-prone) fans: actual X-rays and MRIs from various injuries sustained by the band's members over the years.
Sherman divulged their origins, saying, "In a fit of adrenaline, I broke my foot jumping off a stage in Germany while on tour with Earthride while singing the Down song 'Bury Me in Smoke.' Eric has a bad back and might have to get an operation, so we have his spinal X-rays there. Rob had an infection in his nose and had to have it operation, so that's an MRI of his head. Kyle broke his hand twice. We're a hurting group of individuals."
It's not too hard to understand why a band that bills themselves as 'biker doom' have gotten knocked around once or twice. -K. Kelley
Here's a little sample...
Download "Something Wicked" HERE
Check em out on myspace HERE
Sep 25, 2010
DRUGS DRAGONS debut LP on Dusty Medical (and RECORD RELEASE Show)
Dusty Medical Records proudly presents the debut album from Milwaukee's finest, DRUGS DRAGONS...
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Saturday, October 2
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Record Release Party
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@ Club Garibaldi, 2501 S. Superior St.
Drugs Dragons
"S/T"
(2010)
Dusty Medical Records
The truly amazing thing about Milwaukee, WI's Drugs Dragons is how close they come to distilling the essence of "rock" into a recording. Live, they're intense and unpredictabel. Sweat, blood, and beer appear in equal measure at their shows, and, like all good rock bands, volume is a necessary ingredient. Astoundingly, their new self-titled LP is easily the equal of their live performance, capturing the energy and vitriol of vocalist Puke Drugs' sweaty snarl, as well as guitarist Tony Sagger's chunky chording and the on-the-edge rhythm section of bassist Zorach Dragons and drummer Erroric Mildew.
Drugs Dragons formed in spring 2009 from the remnants of Milwaukee's beloved Night Terrors. Although their stated influences range from early Alice Cooper, the Cramps and the Dead Boys to such modern icons as Clone Defects and the A-Frames, Drugs Dragons have forged their own path among the two million or so bands currently active. They're not interested in climbing the charts; they want to get in your face. And this record will do exactly that.
Boasting song titles like "Carnivore," "Rat People," and "Sunscraper," Drugs Dragons' Dusty Medical Records' debut (following a pair of sold-out 7" releases on their own Terror Trash label) is set to take the band to the next level, whatever that may be. Recorded by fellow Milwaukeean Justin Perkins (who has also worked with Jaill and The Goodnight Loving), Drugs Dragons will no doubt be the soundtrack to many a party, and many a nightmare, for years to come.
-Keith Brammer
Some rad photos from the Call Me Lightning show...
Here's some rad photos of Call Me Lightning @ Club Garibaldi, Milwaukee on Sep 24th 2010...
Be Sure To Catch Call Me Lightning on tour w/ Keelhaul and Russian Circles
10/16 St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
10/17 Oklahoma City, OK @ Conservatory w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
10/19 Tucson, AZ @ Plush w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
10/20 Scottsdale, AZ @ Chasers Nightclub w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
10/21 San Diego, CA @ Casbah w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
10/23 Los Angeles, CA @ Spaceland w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
10/25 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
10/26 Portland, OR @ Rotture w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
10/27 Seattle, WA @ Neumos w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
10/29 Boise, ID @ The Venue w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
10/30 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
10/31 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
11/2 Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
11/03 Columbia, MO @ MOJOs w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
11/05 Columbus, OH @ Ravari Room w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
11/06 Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig w/ Russian Circles, Call Me Lightning
Sep 21, 2010
Harvey Milk - "A Small Turn of Human Kindness"
Harvey Milk
"A Small Turn of Human Kindness"
(2010)
Hydra Head
Georgia's Harvey Milk may be wickedly brilliant, tectonically huge, and caustically hilarious, but they don't seem all that happy about any of it. Still their ever-present grimace has never felt quite as fixed as it does on their latest, A Small Turn of Human Kindness. Many longtime fans found 2008's Life... The Best Game in Town, which played at times like a sampler of Milk's many past successes, neither weird nor challenging enough, and Small Turn is a sharp shift towards the slow, somber, and fucking bleak. These are moods they've explored plenty in the past, but never with such a single-minded dedication to the downcast.
Small Turn airs its grievances to the tune of near-funereal doom metal; tempos crawl, chords hang in the air like stink, riffs unfurl over many minutes, and frontman Creston Spiers' yowl reaches untold heights of lowness. This sort of grimy dirge-metal isn't new to the Milk lexicon but before, there was at least a glint of levity to offset the withering stare. Nothing about Small Turn suggests anyone is kidding around.
The album is nothing if not deliberate; its musical arc, from the listless ebb of its first third to the more dynamic midsection through to the stirring, hard-fought climax of its last couple of tracks, feels as unified as the record's bearish, behemoth sound. Valleys abound, but there are few peaks. Indeed, this monochromatic record can seem like 45 cheerless minutes all in a row, but the meticulous structure starts to show itself after a few listens, and its most decrepit bits verging on thrilling once you're familiar with them. The album's most electrifying segment comes at the end of half an hour of clamber, when a delicate piano line replaces the bleary guitars and Spiers' voice finally drops from a bellow to a whisper before letting the growl go yet again. For as unshowy and willfully acrimonious as Small Turn gets, there is a level of mastery here that is easy to respect even when it's a little hard to love.
Small Turn's greatest strength is also its primary flaw; they do this particular sort of downtrodden as well as anybody, but given all they're capable of, it's a shame that they limit themselves to such a small sonic palette. Still, it's yet another curiously strong record from one of today's most interesting bands, a worthy successor to their downtrodden pre-hiatus LPs, and one hell of a buzzkill. -P.T.
Download the Full LP HERE
For More Harvey Milk Check HERE
Truckfighters "Gravity X"
Truckfighters
"Gravity X"
(2005)
If you like it... BUY IT!!
Sep 17, 2010
Another Helping of DOOM... Black Pyramid Enters The Glove
Black Pyramid
"Black Pyramid"
(2009)
This is ALL YOU, PLUMBER!! Your style of Doom vocals. Remember.... This GREAT band is one of the "Headliners" of the Doom Fest in Kenosha next year! I'm getting you ready early. Wow...this post is turning into a joke.
download the LP HERE
And hows abouts a video for your viewing/listening pleasure...
Check out their sound HERE
Kool Keith - "Matthew"
Kool Keith
"Matthew"
2000
This is a personal favorite of mine. Hilarity ensues throughout the entire record! Instant classic in my opinion. Just let him speak to you...
HERE You Go! Enjoy.
TORCHE "Songs For Singles" (2010)
Torche
"Songs For Singles"
(2010)
Hydra Head
This is an exclusive advance of the latest Torche EP, "Songs For Singles", due out on 9/21/10. It is a collection of singles that were previously unreleased. It's Torche! You love them! So...Go see them along with, HIGH ON FIRE and KYLESA @ Turner Hall on October 6th, 2010.
CHEERS!
download "Songs For Singles" HERE
Sep 16, 2010
New Tweak Bird LP OUT NOW ON VOLCOM
Tweak Bird
"Tweak Bird"
(2010)
NOT... What I expected. That's NOT necessarily a bad thing in this case. Read on...
Everything about the cover art of Tweak Bird‘s eponymous début album screams “hipster rock”. Late seventies/early eighties retro typography? Check. Topless dudes having fun on black and white film (or at least a digital image processed to look like such) while sporting beards and glasses which I’m sure belonged to my father around the time I started primary school? Check. This could be heaven or this could be hell, as The Eagles once sang.
But you know what? Somehow, it works. They get NO PASS from me though. They're from Chicago. Tweak Bird are a duo, one on drums and one on baritone guitar, and unlike a lot of American Apparel-wearing bands who claim to make “heavy pop music”, these guys really seem to be doing exactly that. It’s dumb and lumpen stuff, sure, but despite the prevailing fashion for deliberate ineptitude as an artistic statement, dumb music can be good fun when it’s done earnestly. Think of early Kyuss, for instance, which was about as heavy as anything else at the time, not to mention brazenly, shamelessly, shit-eating-grinningly dumb… but they pulled it off because they loved the thing they were sending up more than their sending up of it (if that makes any sense). What connects Tweak Bird and Kyuss is that very attitude, I think; rather than skulking about behind basic music skills masquerading as ironic cultural detachment,Tweak Bird are plainly just having a whole shit-load of fun writing daft loud Neanderthal guitar riffs and endearingly naïve and optimistic vocals. Inviting your mate in to doodle around on a saxophone for three minutes at a time (“A Sun / Ahh Ahh”, “Distant Airways”) is probably an added bonus.
YOU be the judge!
download the new Tweak Bird HERE
There's more Tweak Bird on the the bloody glove from a few months back if you need some sort of reference point.
Black Mountain - "Wilderness Heart" (2010)
Black Mountain
"Wilderness Heart"
(2010)
A little over a year after releasing In The Future, their critically and commercially celebrated sophomore effort, Black Mountain started building Wilderness Heart on the west coast of America. With Randall Dunn at the helm (Sunn O))), Boris), London Bridge Studios in Seattle saw a portion of the construction with songs "Old Fangs," "Let Spirits Ride," and title track "Wilderness Heart" among others. The preponderance of recording was held with D. Sardy in Los Angeles at Sunset Sound, which has captured tracks from The Doors, Ringo Starr, the Rolling Stones, and more. L.A. – with its tacos and sunsets, starlets and hills and post-Deco kitsch – was a considerable inspiration. "Just being under the influence of one's surroundings, as we were while recording in L.A., had a tremendous impact on the process and the way we play. Consequently, the LA sessions have a free and summery vibe. The Seattle sessions, made in the grey, rainy environs that we're used to up there, have a chillier, more claustrophobic feeling," Wells explains.
"It's a Black Mountain pop record, which is to say it's nothing like pop at all," Wells says. "This was the fastest record we've ever made. We're used to spending a lot of time deliberating over the songs and spacing out recording sessions over years. Start to finish, this album was made in four months, which is something like a miracle for us. We've never worked with producers before and that was a challenge; for us to let go and let two outsiders into the process, D. Sardy and Randall Dunn – it took some growing for us to be truly open, but this album is all the better for it."
The band cites a slew of disparate influences – New Order, King Crimson, Studio 54, Alex Chilton, sunshine, Janis Joplin, Please Kill Me, Shirley Collins, Mickey Newbury, jalapeño salsa, Night of The Hunter, Cactus Taqueria, Funky16Corners podcasts, Dennis Wilson, the house blowing up in the desert at the end of Zabriskie Point – but, as Schmidt points out, "Who knows how these things connect with the holistic mix of often dissonant forces that become Black Mountain?"
Indeed: Listen and find out.
Thanks to "JAGJAG" for the review!
"Wilderness Heart" Track Listing
Sep 15, 2010
Italian Radness. It's VERACRASH "11:11"
Veracrash
"11:11"
(2009)
Thanks Alodesert for sharing.. we got a strong candidate for the "Album of the Year".
Judge for yourself here... 11:11
Hydra Head's Finest ... Clouds | Legendary Demo
Clouds
"Legendary Demo"
(2007)
Too bad Clouds' Legendary Demo didn't hit, oh, say about five years ago before the vested title of "hipster-metal" was birthed: Back in a time when indie-friendly loud-guitar rock shows consisted of spasmodic post-post-rockers like Rye Coalition and the Cherry Valence heftily hoisting Stooges/MC5 rawk to denim-wearin' kids too young to know who or what a Jim Dandy or a Foghat was. Because Clouds' boogie redux would've fit in nicely back then.
At their best Clouds kick up a controlled chaos of streamlined punky "party grunge"-- as they themselves call it-- best exemplified by the surprisingly titled "Party Grunge", where a rolling Cobain-pumpin' Bleach-era riff tumbles and shimmy-shakes via train-chuggin' hambone beats, not dissimilar from Hot Snakes. Similarly styled tracks like "Guardian's Eyes" and "Live It For Now" burn it up using the band's frequent arsenal of note-y stoner-rock riffs but merely as a bridge or fancy turnaround before returning to mouth-foaming, methed-out swagger.
Some backstory: Before Clouds took their current billowy formation, guitarist-cum-mastermind Adam McGrath logged time in one of Boston's key influential hardcore metal outfits Cave In. (They're currently slumbering in an undetermined hiatus with members being involved in a slew of offshoots: Stephen Brodsky's Octave Museum, Zozobra, Doomriders, and last but not least, the Clouds.) Cave In helped beget the terribly rote micro genre "metalcore." Don't blame them: Ahead of the curve and sniffing staleness long before it was stinking up Hot Topics and Ozzfest Second Stages, Cave In flipped the script, trying their hand at radio-reaching At the Drive-In–esque pop and something akin to arty stoner rock. -Pitchfork
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