Type: indie Description: Pinback has a smooth sound with clean, compressed guitars, excellent harmonies, gated drums form a complex sound that renders between your ears as simple, melodic and atmospheric songs good for long car trips or sitting by a fire with a glass of wine. “Information Retrieved” is..well..lovely. T40MS Rating: 4.25/5 To hear it … Continue reading
Alex Lifeson’s Favorite Solos – Who knew?
I personally am a big fan of “Analog Kid” and “Digital Man” but check out Gibson’s interview w/ Lifeson on his 3 favorite solos. Limelight (agreed!) Kid Gloves (interesting) Freewill (of course!) Continue reading
Marcy Playground – Sex & Candy is Evil
There are so many bands on the radio that have this sickeningly popular hit that drives people mad (good and bad) and then are pretty much never heard from again. Well, if you were one of the lucky one’s who bought Marcy Playground’s self titled “Marcy Playground” you will notice that the album’s brilliance was … Continue reading
The Fucking Champs are THE FUCKING CHAMPS!
Alright metal fools…if you haven’t heard of the metal instrumental trio “The Fucking Champs” from San Francisco I HIGHLY recommend it’s high fucking time you did. I’ve never heard 2 guitar players and a drummer make such incredibly intricate, bone crushing, tasteful, tone full, part cheese (in a good way), METAL in my life? Take … Continue reading
Outside Lands San Francisco – An audio disaster of no proportion
Yeah, Yeah…this post is incredibly late, but I’ve been thinking a lot about what I witnessed Friday, Aug 22nd and Sat, August 23rd at Outside Lands, an incredibly ambitious 3 day music festival in Golden Gate park, San Francisco. Something happened that I have never in my life seen and heard at a show…something so … Continue reading
McDonalds does NOT rock…
…except if I’m hung over as hell or want fries to stay undigested in my colon for 3 months…ya know, save ’em for later kind of thing. I guess this was an ad in Brazil…to cater to those who love Sepultura. Continue reading
RUSH plays Tom Sawyer on ROCKBAND
In follow up to the RUSH post where they play the Colbert Report I never in a million years thought I’d see this, but this is the shit! RUSH plays thier own song, Tom Sawyer, on the game Rockband and FAIL! Continue reading