by Charles Pearlman It’s unfortunate that many of the most brilliant minds often self sabotage and can be their own worst enemy. Rarely does the genius appropriately manage their intellect, creativity, zeal, or any of the qualities that lead them to fame and wealth to begin with. Art Pepper is one of those tortured geniuses. He defines the …
If I had to sum up the track ‘Deathvox’ in two words, I could describe it as Neolithic meets Industrial. 5:24 minutes of frenzied screeching synths, Temples own distorted voice terrifying throughout, and a tribal beat that might be more at home in the middle of the woods at a Bacchanal. Vines crawling up trees …
How fondly do we remember the moments when a certain piece of music was the perfect soundtrack for a special event, or period in life. Listening to that song is often enough to make you taste a beautiful kiss, smell the scent of a velvet night that felt eternal, hear the nocturnal echoes of laughter …
The opening paragraph of Pitchfork’s review of Iggy Pop‘s latest album Free (2019) points to the sad mental problems and painfully insufficient intellectual capacities of our time’s people. We are still waiting in vain for the last hopeful twists of the West on its way to decline, while brains and imagination have already collectively been …
Today is the 15th anniversary of the epic Funeral, the debut album of the Canadian band Arcade Fire. What we have here is one of those very rare cases in which a debut album turns out to be an instant classic, an explosion of superlative talent and creativity, a work that can’t be surpassed by …
David Thomas and his nourish gang of musical misanthropes have been haunting the edges of the alternative music scene since I first began reading Creem Magazine as a boy. An aspiring delinquent at the time, Thomas’s first band, the proto-punk legends Rocket From The Tombs, seemed like an unholy experiment that crawled out of the …
The greatest of all the punk rock bands, The Clash. They had everything, the music, the look and most importantly the right attitude and right on politics.The band comprised Joe Strummer on vocals and guitar, Mick Jones on lead guitar, Paul Simenon on bass and Topper Headon on drums. Topper was a very versatile drummer. …
The dig at the garage of my dreams was beyond all expectations. The quality and quantity was nearly unfathomable. I had to be pried away, but still it appeared that between this dig and the rock records from Larry, my personal collection had doubled in size. We were back at the house, and I had a …
Given the excitement and the temptation to stay up all night and spin all those 45’s I would never otherwise hear, I slept remarkably well that night. I woke up, and Larry had already been awake for a few hours. He seemed happy to see me. Something told me he slept with one eye open …
‘Come Down to Us’ is a 13 minute track on the Rival Dealer EP by the electronic artist Burial (Will Bevan). My experience with this electronic masterpiece, is akin to what I can only imagine a black hole would sound like or perhaps even feel like. A bottomless puddle of thick black, with buried voices …
