STREAMING // (Album) Bones X Lyson – “REMAINS”
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Track List: MonsterMash, Bentley, SocialCues, Baja, Lacquer, BadReception, TakeCover, SkeletalLove, WaitingForTheHammerToFall, SpiderSilkRobes, PeaceAndQuiet, WhateverFloatsYourBoat, Floor105
STREAMING // (Album) Dirty Art Club – “Gardens”
Listen Here – BandCamp
Art By: BryanOlsonCollage
Track List: Divine Intermission, Plastic Drip, Arctic Garden, Morphine/Cigarettes, Bad Nerves, Andromeda, High Life, New Wave, Blossoms, Left Brain, Candy Sweats, Angeldust, LSDemons, Technicolor, Violet, Cherry Lemons, 28205, Nongshim, Pharmacy Lights, Night Swim, Otra Vez, Maybe Later, Three AM, Memory Card, Sidewalk Temples, Undertow, Infinite Drift
Misc. Day – Love Letter To Psychedelia
In an age where history is just a click away, Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network is this deeply rooted fascination with 60’s psychic ability through sound. The vibrating walls that shine through on Ballet Of Apes kicks off to be a fever dream that wants the listener to be engulfed by beauty rather than abrasive power.
Set in the deserts of sand and heat, the inkling apparitions of noise coming from Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network is a perspiring spring of oasis. Opening with “Is The Season For New Incarnations,” the soft almost tribal synths and percussion opens Dawson’s voice as a beacon of ceremony. The eerie performance is tense, but in a similar vein can provide an overarching reach of grace and prosperity. When describing through her lyrics, “Is now nigh for new faces, listen children, babes, and aces. Furious joy and grim loss, ever the children shall pay the cost.” Spoken mostly in rhymes and riddles, the enigmatic writing style is what could be painted on canvas against that which cannot be echoed through music.
Much of Ballet Of Apes is an often sluggish crawl through what happens to be miles of never-ending dunes and desolation. Scattered among are these pockets of elegance and flavor where Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network is a modern-day rendition of flower power. Even the cover art that is done by Kyle Ranson, the gorgeous nature stems from both sound and appearance with abstract picturesque murals. To match the fluid backdrop that paints on tracks like “The Fool” or “When My Day Of The Crone Comes” takes precision or rather a lack of and ultimately, leads to some of the best matching paint to the performance.
Later, there is the sullen “Heartbreak Jazz” that flashes into the listing as one of the longer displays of musical athleticism and has Dawson whispering but shouting internally. She describes, “Haunted by my dreams, how long the dark night seems and anyway. In my mind, you’re already gone.” As the track begins, it is only a synth lead and Dawson’s vocals, but then instruments like percussion from Jason Robira and strings from Jim McHugh are introduced to bring fruition to a funeral. The always shifting line-up adds some dexterity to the motions and keeps fresh coats of paint over a release that sculpts over seven total tracks.
When the curtain call comes, Ballet Of Apes depends more on orchestrating a symphony of gracious misery and constructing a backbone that is both dependable and mind-bending. With a sizzling heat that conquers the unquenchable night, Dawson is a pillar for throwing sound into a vibrant dose.
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STREAMING // (Video) Freddie Gibbs X The Alchemist – “1985”
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Director: Nick Walker
Director Of Photography: Jordan Ritz
Creative Director: Ben “Lambo” Lambert
2nd Cam Op: Nick Marshall
Editor: Riley Burke
Colorist: Brandon Chavez
Produced By: Richard Ricardo
STEAMING // (Album) HOOK – “I Love You 2, Hook”
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Produced By: 2thousan9, MexikoDro, Evilgiane, Trip Dixon, Nedarb, Tony Seltzer, Boka
Track List: I Like You Hook., gNaT, Answer!, GUIde, BrB, IMy </3, 2NIGhT, 4:47am, the eND
New Music – Corrosive Entity
Like lambs to a slaughter, the livestock in this case is the audience that has their balance teetering in END’s hands. In any way possible, Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face wants to obliterate the ears and rebuild a new species from the ashes. From the twisted cover art to the often breakneck destruction, END is your new god.
Opening with the overtly ambitious and overbearing, “Covet Not” is a quick buck-fifty that inflicts multiple secreting wounds from the initial moments. The lineup that consists of Brendan Murphy on vocals with both Will Putney and Gregory Thomas on guitars. Which in that grouping alone is a rough and badly bruised brigade that also extends its arms to include Jay Pepito on bass and Billy Rymer on the percussion. While a five-piece, END is a single conglomerate of seemingly hellish proportions that takes an 11 track, 33-minute long journey towards the depths of despair.
Other impacts like on “Absence” are about orchestrating as much misery as possible with lyrics that are closer etched to cave walls rather than modern-day poetry thanks to a feature from Pete Morcey. As each vocalist takes turns with the spiked bat, the listener is forced to endure through lyrics that describe, “I ascend towards the fire depraved of coiled roots that bind me to the Earth from a decaying crown of light. Disheveled veils secure your sin and mine.” As the two continue on, the descriptions become worsened and more frightening, illustrating, “Hell is a reflection of myself branded in the skin of those I love. Dead weight will hang in the absence of the warmth of setting suns, like kindling to set my will ablaze.”
Miraculously, even though the lyrics are primarily a shouting match between one’s self, they are one of the highlights of the record. When skimming through them while hearing the galvanizing jolt of instrumentation is both a glorious and agonizing experience. In a similar vein, “Fear For Me Now,” has a bullheaded charge toward a breakdown that is confusing and disorienting as the walls shatter around the listener and become mere atoms.
When the transition to “An Apparition” floods into the ears, emotions of defeat and being dragged on the undertow flash into the mind. END takes the two-minutes featured on this track and wastes no time on working the body with lightning-quick jabs to the abdominal. When recovery seems near, the group fades into a complete warpath where the chugging instruments bounce between a one-two step and the rapid-fire machine gun rounds to scatter the cover and break down defenses.
From opening pages to closing covers, END is a behemoth that during times of utter uncertainty, can provide one everlasting truth. Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face will do everything in its power to destroy the comfort zone the audience is engulfed around.
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STREAMING // (Video) Maxo – “Clouds Say My Name”
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Video Animation/Editing + Production By: Makhai Fahie
Direction By: Max Allen
First instrumental By: Camoflauge Monk
Second instrumental By: Madlib
STREAMING // (Video) REASON X ScHoolboy Q – “Pop Shit”
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Directed By: Jon Primo
Director Of Photography: Jon Chou
Executive Produced By: Anthony Tiffith
Producers: Moosa, Carlos Lopes, Akeem Smith
Edited By: Cal Laird
STREAMING // (Video) MIKE – “nothin2say (Never Forget)”
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Song Produced By: DJ Blackpower
Video Produced By: Matter Research
Shot By: Reel + Fake
Edited By: Patrick Newell
Art By: Abraham El Makawy
Classic Day – Horror Drama
It is easy to become lost in the tidal waves of sound that increasingly shift by the day now that the internet has made music such an accessible and often-times, disposable medium of communication. But it is vital to focus on those who without the internet, would remain trapped to a dead sea of misplaced cassettes and forgotten vinyl pressings.
GRB hails from Barcelona, Spain with a simple, but monumental way of producing sound. Essentially, every member from the vocalist down to the percussionist has the same method of forming cracks in the pavement through as much noise as possible. In the self-titled work, Grb is an 18 track monster of rapid-fire hell that still shows a total runtime of under 20 minutes. With tracks that range from 29-seconds at an average, the dog-pile tactic surrounds the listener and embodies the spirit of hardcore.
Here, opening with “10 Segundos” or “Buen Camino,” GRB is instantly aggressive and cares more about being as harsh as possible rather than creating comfort. No doubt, Grb is harder to understand for those who are incompetent and only speak a single language. But dialect is no barrier here as tracks like “Nazis Muertos” and “Cínica Justícia” do not require much bilingual nature to understand that the emotional draw is the same. The overwhelming rush that comes from almost noise efforts of GRB is astonishing and stands as a silent martyr for punk rock.
Grb through the work of Juan R. Ferrando, Miguel Coll, Alberto Collazo, and Ángel Fernández Bueno is a stutter step direction into the lo-fi recordings of entirely different cultures that clash to become one. Almost every second spent with GRB intends to be a teaching tool, almost like sparring with an opponent. Each track acts as a punch and the audience has to either dodge or become overwhelmed by the practically blitzing instrumentation and vocals.
Disguised as shouts that perch in solidarity, GRB follows through their self-titled release as a loose, but still meaningful jump into the hardcore Deadpool. They throw their arms in a tense, almost firecracker response to one of music’s less remembered powder kegs.
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SUNDAY SAMPLER // (Playlist) “12/04/2022″
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(Video) Lightning Bolt – “Dead Cowboy @ TAICOCLUB 2014”
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