Forget Pac Man Fever. Manilla Road recorded the most rockingest video game tribute song EVAH: Defender. Yes, in 1982, the Manilla boys bowed down to the hardest arcade game ever invented. There were like 7 buttons + a joystick on that thing! And never, ever press Hyperspace.
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More French bon bons from Monsieur Niege. You'd be hard pressed to hear any metal at all in his band Alcest. Tell me this doesn't sound like some long lost Slowdive single: soft, grey, drinking tea on a rainy morning music. Nevertheless, this disc, Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde, topped many a black metalhead's Best Of lists. Go figure--but it's beautiful anyway.
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I ask because today's uploads are all about the new Shoegaze Metal. Shoegaze Metal? Yes, it looks like the hordes of the Grim and Kvlt Nation have finally stormed the misty Isle of the Bloody Valentine and looted the treasures within, to great effect!Many of the best bands breeding this particular hybrid are French. A one man cottage industry, Niege fronts several bands, including Amoseurs. Th
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Here's one of the other gems from Heavens. I knew a girl in the marching band at Boise High School named Jennifer Fanning. She wasn't really a popular girl, but she wasn't really a nerd either. Just a very nice, beautiful person. Anyway, after I went off to college, I imagined that this song could have been written for her: "She's fetching/She may not know it now/Watch out if she finds out."
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Okay, for the no doubt millions upon millions of people who were waiting for me to finally figure out how to convert AAC iTunes tracks in MP3's, well, your long wait is over. So the tracks I uploaded will actually play now. Here's what I've got so far: ANGELIC PROCESS, ICE BOUND MAJESTY, SLOUGH FEG, and YAT-KHA covering Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart.
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My first MOG post! Why is it that a lot of my favorite music sounds like it was made by swarms of insects? Sometimes I picture them as blurry little knots of fine wire, making cloudy halos around my speakers. This image appeared to me was when I first heard "Where is my Mind?" by the Pixies. Then I heard Jane's Addiction's "Ocean Size", and I couldn't really see Perry Farrell as a human bein
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TRUE SHEFFIELD BLACK PSYCHEDELIA, as described by CD-R label Frequency Thirteen (what, as opposed to all that fake Sheffield Black Psychedelia?!). But The Black Truth is a grand vision indeed, and if this is what Sheffield feels like I want to move there immediately. Several other bands are attached to this scene (Dukha, Black Vomit, Skultroll) but my favorite one has to be Ice Bound Majesty...
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I love this band! Now simply Slough Feg, after deciding to drop the Lord Weird title they formerly carried. One of the best irony-free, true old school metal revivalists of the last decade, this SF band has many obsessions in common with me: Dungeons & Dragons (RIP Gary Gygax), Traveller, and rocking out with a mighty twin guitar sound sound that recalls Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, and BIG COUNTRY
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My Belgian friend in Oakland bought this disc for a couple bucks in the international section at Amoeba Berkeley. I copied it from him shortly before moving to DC. Since I'm missing the Bay Area this morning, listening to this made me smile very much.I wonder what else would sound great covered by a Tuvan throat singer?
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