Eclectic Vibes
by Andrew Frey
Baroness - Blue Record
BaronessBlue Record
Label: Relapse Records
Epic heavy riffs pushed by purposeful plodding beats and innocent yet voluminous teasings of the determinate droning disillusionment. Storming forth from their Savannah home, this engaging engine of dark and entrancing operations is hurtling to a vast new plane of resilience and recognition.
• Baroness Website • Baroness WikiJimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Inspiration Information
Jimi Tenor & Tony AllenInspiration Information
Label: Strut Records
Pairing together Finnish experimental musician Jimi Tenor with Tony Allen, an amazing Afrobeat drumming legend, has ushered forth a curious cache of mind warbling avant jazz creations . Lyrics are spun with experience and dark sarcasm while being treated with tribal beats, horns, flutes, and samples through a wildly unpredictable imagination.
• Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen WebsiteMadLove - White With Foam
MadLoveWhite With Foam
Label: Ipecac Recordings
Dwelling in the dreaminess of a sardonic state induced by the oft melancholy female fronted lyrics, this Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Fantomas) project executes resolutely refined rock band outcroppings via a quirky collection of music aficionados. While potentially falling off as initially flaccid, repeated listens evokes a more memorable and shapely timbre.
• MadLove WebsiteSomething To Burn - Transitions
Something To BurnTransitions
Label: Softdrive Records
Powerful and dynamic hard rock with strong choruses and inescapable commercial appeal. Dynamically designed but mostly over polished to the point of sterility. Softdrive Records was founded by Scott Weiland so unsurprisingly they’re touring with Stone Temple Pilots this fall.
• Something To Burn WebsiteYo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band - Greatest Hips Volume II
Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty BandGreatest Hips Volume II
Label: Self Released
YMBFBB’s live show captured here is saturated with shooting anthemic lyrics, crowd pleasing antics, mega grooves, a booty shakin’ brass section and an energetic audience. Six heady hard working musicians from Asheville, NC blow the doors off the joint through their elevated conflagration of musicianship and attendance participation. Find a sweet spot and ride out the jams man!
• Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band WebsiteYonder Mountain String Band - The Show
Yonder Mountain String BandThe Show
Label: Frog Pad Records
Sweet, clever, quaint, touching or zany this Colorado foursome continues to please by carrying on with their tradition of invigorating and infusing traditional bluegrass and stringed instrumentation with a swinging new rock n roll view. If you are lucky enough to have a chance, their live show will revitalize and renew as few do.
• Yonder Mountain String Band Website • Yonder Mountain String Band WikiElectric Six - Kill
Electric SixKill
Label: Metropolis Records
Another fun frolic into musical flamboyancy from these Detroit veterans of kitsch-n-roll. Brashly and boldly re-spinning their old disco punk methodology into a wisened vision of musical maturity results in Electric Six kicking ass again and again!
• Electric Six Website • Electric Six WikiGenitorturers - Blackheart Revolution
GenitorturersBlackheart Revolution
Label: Retribution Music
If Wendy O Williams sang for White Zombie you would have an inclination of the inspirational avenues pursued by this self proclaimed train wreck of decadence and debauchery. Once again tempting the tainted with their strong and groovy anthemic industrial metal that’s slicked, sticky and jazzed for success. Let’s go cum junkies!
• Genitorturers Website • Genitorturers WikiLittle Fyodor - Peace Is Boring
Little FyodorPeace Is Boring
Label: Public Eyesore Records
Claiming Denver as home this juggernaut of insanity has ranted and raved about his decidedly disenfranchised reality since at least 1981. Now, with fellow soothe sayer Babushka they explore 14 newly twisted avenues of totally snapped psycho punk rock including a couple revisioned classics. A mental calliope of grandeur and disillusionment for the children of the Subgenius.
• Little Fyodor Website • Little Fyodor WikiUnderworld Vs. The Misterons - Athens
Underworld Vs. The MisteronsAthens
Label: !K7 Records
A curious confusion of a compilation album with an experiment jazz mood crescendo. From Mahavishnu Orchestra to Roxy Music to Squarepusher, these trax range from danceable funk to trancing jazz and beyond. Underworld is back.
• Underworld Vs. The Misterons WebsiteCathy-Anne McClintock - Cathy-Anne McClintock
Cathy-Anne McClintockCathy-Anne McClintock
Label: 37 Records
Tumbling past her tenure in country band Tumbleweed, this singer songwriter enlists Tim O’Brien to enrapture a more folksy element of the modern country spectrum with her charm. Not my usual territory, but something caught my eye.
• Cathy-Anne McClintock WebsiteChinese Stars - Heaven On Speed Dial
Chinese StarsHeaven On Speed Dial
Label: Anchor Brain Records
Dissonant lubrications disjoint and realign at the sadistic whim of these overlords of musical funk-dissonance. Join this scramble for stability amidst the charming yet volatile excursions into dangerous anti-pop melodies grinning with smart ass punk taunting vocals.
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