REVIEWS: ROB ZOMBIE - [ALBUM]

ARTIST: Rob Zombie - [Album]
with free mp3 download for 'Burn.'
DATE: 02-08-10

REVIEW BY: Bill Adams

After so many years and releases (since Supersexy Swingin' Sounds – at least) that have seen Rob Zombie continue to mutate his metal into some permutation of ghoulish electro-goth, the question of whether the singer would find his way back to more real-time music had become an increasingly valid one. In the last ten years [view more]

REVIEWS: JASON COLLETT - [ALBUM]

ARTIST: Jason Collett - [Album]
with free mp3 download for 'Little Tiger' from the To Wit To Woo digital EP by Jason Collett
DATE: 02-08-10

REVIEW BY: Bill Adams

There are few things more tantalizing in modern rock than a songwriter that rips a hole in the fabrics of both time and taste, stands outside them and makes a sound that could have been produced yesterday as easily as it could have been made one, two, three or four decades ago. Could that be called timeless work? Sure – but more accurate [view more]

FEATURES: USS RISING

ARTIST: USS Rising
with free mp3 download for 'Anti-Venom' from Questamation by Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker.
DATE: 02-04-10

WRITER: Bill Adams

It's difficult to imagine that there might be anyone on Earth more genuinely happy with where he's at in life than Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker (aka USS) singer/guitarist Ash Buchholz. While he and turntablist/hypeman Jason Parsons may have started making noise under the name Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker in 2007, the notice has really been [view more]

REVIEWS: MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND - [LIVE]

ARTIST: My Brightest Diamond - [Live]
show date 1.22.01
VENUE: The Bowery Ballroom
DATE: 02-02-10

REVIEW BY: Steven Carey
PHOTO: Ryan Kobane

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I saw My Brightest Diamond a year ago in the Hotel Café with a crowd of about fifty people, which turned out to be a very nice and decidedly indie-urban-outfitters-flannel-shirt-wearing kind of night. This was kind of the same thing except with more like seven hundred people dressed like that.

So this is [view more]

FEATURES: PASTE MAGAZINE INITIATES SONGS FOR HAITI RELIEF EFFORT

Paste Magazine Initiates Songs For Haiti Relief Effort PHOTO

ARTIST: Paste Magazine Initiates Songs For Haiti Relief Effort
DATE: 02-01-10

WRITER: Bill Adams

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Over the last few years, as economies have flagged and cast into question the futures of so many people, it has become very common for people to conveniently “forget” about the debts and favors they owe to others. It's easy enough to cite distraction or disinterest as more and more people look evermore out for number one. Because [view more]

FEATURES: THE SADIES CIRCLE AND RETURN, DARKLY

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ARTIST: The Sadies Circle And Return, Darkly
DATE: 01-31-10

WRITER: Bill Adams

It sounds like a cliche now – particularly because so many artists make similar claims only to only come halfway through when they finally do present new work – but The Sadies truly are one of the hardest working bands in show business. The Toronto-based band seems to never stop; since forming in 1998, The Sadies have released eight [view more]

REVIEWS: TIM BARRY - [ALBUM]

ARTIST: Tim Barry - [Album]
with free mp3 download for 'Prosser's Gabriel' from 28th And Stonewall.
DATE: 01-30-10

REVIEW BY: Bill Adams

Over the last couple of years, a lot of hot air has been blown and ink spilled declaring that folk is the new punk. To be fair, it's a fair assertion to make (within reason); as some punks have advanced in years of experience (Greg Graffin's a good example, as would be Chuck Ragan), they've found a renewed success in the act of [view more]

FEATURES: HARD CORE SOLO - CHUCK RAGAN STRIKES GOLD

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ARTIST: Hard Core Solo - Chuck Ragan Strikes Gold
with free mp3 download for 'Good Enough For Rock and Roll.'
DATE: 01-27-10

WRITER: Bill Adams

Transitioning between musical styles can be a risky prospect for a player in the public eye. After a band breaks out, it doesn't take long for the group in question and its members to become associated with a scene or sound and, when that happens, there's suddenly a set of expectations (of community, of performance, of convention and [view more]

FEATURES: DINOSAUR BONES TAKE THEIR FIRST STEPS OUT

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ARTIST: Dinosaur Bones Take Their First Steps Out
with free mp3 download for 'Ice Hotels.'
DATE: 01-27-10

WRITER: Bill Adams

As exciting as a new, forthcoming release can be for a band, there's something special about the prospect of a vinyl release. Part of that certainly must have to do with the fetish quality inherent to a 7” single or a full-length, 33RPM album; CDs are indestructible compared to those tiny grooves in an album or single, and collectors [view more]

REVIEWS: KURT VILE - [LIVE]

ARTIST: Kurt Vile - [Live]
VENUE: Johnny Brenda\'s, Philadelphia, PA 01/08/10
DATE: 01-26-10

REVIEW BY: Ollie Mikse
PHOTO: Vladimir Lukic

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Ever seen an opening band almost sacrifice the headliner? On a seasonably (and completely expected) cold and windy Friday night in Philadelphia, my friends and I are on the top floor of Johnny Brenda’s thinking just that.

We were there to see Kurt Vile, and it just so happened that we showed up early enough to see both opening [view more]

COLUMN: 777'' VOL.006

ARTIST: 777'' Vol.006
with free mp3 downloads for one track from each single!
DATE: 01-26-10

WRITER: Ollie Mikse

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It's a good time to be into punk rock. Oh sure, the scene is still dishing out the goods like it always has, and yes, the vinyl is as plentiful as in the 'golden years,' but those tuned into the scene right now get to experience something altogether baffling; punk rockers going the folk singer/songwriter route...solo. It's [view more]

REVIEWS: HAWKSLEY WORKMAN - [ALBUM]

ARTIST: Hawksley Workman - [Album]
with free mp3 download for 'We'll Make Time (Even When There Ain't No Time)' from Meat.
DATE: 01-23-10

REVIEW BY: Bill Adams

Over the last seven years (2003's Lover/Fighter started this trend), Hawksley Workman has continually trailed ever further from the fantastic and plastic vaudevillian center that he established with (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves and elected to test drive a host of personas and images – from the modern and [view more]

REVIEWS: ROB ZOMBIE - [ALBUM]

REVIEWS: JASON COLLETT - [ALBUM]

FEATURES: USS RISING

REVIEWS: MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND - [LIVE]

FEATURES: PASTE MAGAZINE INITIATES SONGS FOR HAITI RELIEF EFFORT

FEATURES: THE SADIES CIRCLE AND RETURN, DARKLY

REVIEWS: TIM BARRY - [ALBUM]

FEATURES: HARD CORE SOLO - CHUCK RAGAN STRIKES GOLD

FEATURES: DINOSAUR BONES TAKE THEIR FIRST STEPS OUT

REVIEWS: KURT VILE - [LIVE]

COLUMN: 777'' VOL.006

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