Hang ten Junky! I see a great big wave o' totally kick-ass SWAG comin' yer way, ya reprobates, an' there's some right righteous stuff loaded in it. No bullshit, yer gonna wanna check di week's Report out, cuz I sure did right by ya. Dis week, I gotcha a multi-national bag o' goodies, and there's some sweet stuff inna mix. Like I nabbed a new tune from Mission Of Burma before ther new reckid (i's called Unsound, i's da firs'one'ey...
Ice Choir – "Teletrips"https://groundcontrolmag.com/music/SWAG105Ice_Choir-Teletrips.mp3 illdotlogic – "Gumballs"https://groundcontrolmag.com/music/SWAG105illdotlogic-gumballs.mp3 Lipona – Pigeonholed EPhttps://groundcontrolmag.com/music/SWAG105Lipona-Pigeonholed.zip Matisyahu – "Sunshine"https://groundcontrolmag.com/music/SWAG105Matisyahu-Sunshine.mp3 Mission Of Burma – "Dust Devil"https://groundcontrolmag.com/music/SWAG105mission_of_burma-dust_devil.mp3 Noah and the...
I was at a high school party, and a friend of a friend demonstrated that he could play the guitar solo from "Freebird" note for note. Technically impressive, especially for a beginning guitarist but, even at sixteen, I knew the great guitarist was the one who played the guitar solo from "Freebird" the first time. That is the lesson everyone should learn first when they pick up guitar: no matter how many solos you can learn, you demonstrate real talent...
It sounds like it might be an outsized myth or wonderful exaggeration, but sometimes a perfect, timeless sound can only be made in one particular moment under a very specific set of circumstances. There really can be magic in a moment and it really could only happen once in a lifetime (because happening more than once may also result in a body count). The proof of that fact lies in the spaces between the thirteen songs which populate Night &...
The Real McKenzies had to have known they'd have the cards stacked against them when they agreed to hit the stage with The Brains and Reverend Horton Heat. The band had to have known that, slotted as the mid-card band between two rockabilly acts – one of whom is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary on this tour, no less – it was unlikely that they'd be walking into any room full of people who would be there to see them first,...
While the question of whether or not Camden Town's favorite sons, Madness, will record and release a new album in 2012 Madness kept a current in the pot when they announced a new series of North American dates. Ground Control's Raymond Ahner was there with camera in hand to catch the band when they performed at the Warfield Theater in San Fransisco,...
After the release and overwhelmingly positive reception of their First Four EPs set in late 2009, OFF! was left in a very peculiar position: they had successfully achieved their first goal quickly and incisively, so they needed to figure out what to do next. This, after all, was the band who famously formed to overcome stifling creative conditions (long story short, OFF! came together after singer Keith Morris' other band turned down the songs he and Dimitri Coats – who...
It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam "MCA" Yauch, founding member of Beastie Boys and also of the Milarepa Foundation that produced the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits, and film production and distribution company Oscilloscope Laboratories, passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer. He was 47 years old. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Yauch taught himself to play bass in high school, forming a band for his...
Of all the things that The Real McKenzies will own up to being, the one that they will cop to first and most happily is that they are a Canadian band; it is who the been since forming in Vancouver, BC in 1992, it was who they were when American audiences became aware of the band in the mid-Nineties and it is the calling card that the band has dropped as they've toured the world. The Real McKenzies are as...