Category: Music
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8-Bit Jesus: Full Album Release
Just in time for Christmas, it’s the full version of 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games. This full release contains 18 tracks total, including improved variations of a few of the original nine! Check it out here.
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Countdown to Brütality – Offworld
DoubleFine’s black metal adventure Brütal Legend, the sophomore game from the studio behind Psychonauts, headed by former LucasArts designer Tim Schafer. Check it out here.
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Images of Satan – LA Weekly
Norwegian black metal is the country’s most controversial musical export — and bane of the wooded Scandinavian enclave’s existence. Dealing as it does with Satanism, arson and murder, the music remains mostly underground; America’s general knowledge of Norwegian rock still starts with a-ha and ends with Royksopp. But recent interest in the notorious subgenre, including…
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PETER BESTE, Norwegian Black Metal photographer
it’s kind of funny to watch Peter Beste calmly explaining the Norwegian Black Metal scene for Swedish TV like an anthropologist whose just returned from a seven-year voyage Check it out here.
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Music For Maniacs: David Liebe Hart: Artist & Creator
David Liebe Hart believes he was abducted by aliens, hosts a public-access TV program called “The Junior Christian Bible Story Puppet Show,” draws pictures and performs music for tips on the streets of Los Angeles, and is looking for a woman. Check it out here.
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IGN: Rise Against's The 12 Albums That Changed The World
We caught up with the band and got them to reveal their Top 12 most influential albums. Consider this an exclusive mixtape list showcasing some of the seminal records that have made a lasting impression on the music and lifestyle of Rise Against. Check it out here.
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Music For Maniacs: MY TRIBUTE TO TONY ALAMO
Today’s mp3 is the most spectacularly awful music I’ve heard in a while, a kitsch epic. But there’s more to it then just that. That’s because today’s music is by the infamous Tony Alamo, in the news yet again, this time for kiddie porn. The FBI raided his Arkansas compound. Sure, he’s in the South…
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Confessions of a Promo-CD Junkie: Who Will Stop the Music Industry Gravy Train? – LA Weekly
Some call it the gravy train, the gift that keeps on giving. To others, it’s a load of crap, and they cuss it. Every day it piles higher, this avalanche of music that arrives in tastemakers’ offices across the country, requiring both thoughtful efficiency and a cold-hearted detachment to conquer. The gravy train, it just…
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METAL INQUISITION: Black Metal: Photo Analysis
The guy on the left didn’t get the memo about the difference between throwing the horns, and the sign for “I love you.” Apparently he also didn’t get the memo about not wearing flowing, pirate-style shirts, or his mom’s jeans when trying to look evil. Check it out here.
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The Killers: Change we can believe in | Music | The Observer
Throughout the show a member of the Killers’ entourage takes pictures from the side of the stage. These days he is the only photographer allowed to shoot the band live. After gigs, the media are invited to pick shots that the band have selected to put up on a special website. Later I ask (Killers’…
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METAL INQUISITION: Retroview: Confessor – Condemned
“You’ve never heard anything like this!” is, for the most part, an overused and meaningless phrase, that is unless you happen to be talking about Confessor. Their debut album, Condemned, is one of the most uniquely bizarre metal records I’ve ever heard. A brilliant mix of seemingly incongruous elements Confessor’s deranged sound is truly unforgettable.…
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ILL MITCH
An old favorite I’ve been meaning to post. Hello to rap fans, I am ILL Mitch. I come from Russia to America now I am free to do 3 favorite things. These are rap and ride on my skateboard and hit my boxing bag. But most favorite thing is rap. Check it out here.
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Juliana Hatfield Feels Her Way Beyond the Spotlight – NYTimes.com
Back in the mid-1990s, while on a short college tour, the singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield found herself looking for windows to jump from if her depression became too much to bear. She didn’t want to kill herself but to “not feel anything anymore,” she said. Check it out here.
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Trikont – our own voice
Crazy & Obscure / Novelty Songs 1914-1946 TRIKONT US-0276 compiled by: Werner Pieper – publisher from media experiments and counterculture since many years CD in Digipak with detailed Booklet in german and english Check it out here.
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Soundgarden Inadvertently Reunites At Area Cinnabon
Members of the popular 1990s grunge band Soundgarden shocked critics and fans alike Tuesday, appearing together publicly for the first time in more than a decade after accidentally running into one another at the Northgate Mall Cinnabon. Check it out here.
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Heavy Metal Monk Wows Fans – Truveo Video Search
62-year-old Italian Capuchin Friar Cesare Bonizzi is nor ordinary heavy metal rocker Check it out here.
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Runnin' Scared: From Brooklyn, a Rap Campaign Against Tight Clothes
If clothes make the man, do tight clothes make the man a homosexual? A Brooklyn-based rap group thinks the current trend in hip-hop—medium tees and sagging jeans cinched tightly below the hips—is causing some confusion. And they are not alone. Members of the rap group Thug Slaughter Force—three brothers and two friends calling themselves Drama,…
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'This is the devil's music' | | guardian.co.uk Arts
Ask Conrad Lant – whose working name is Cronos – if he sees any parallels between the absurd events chronicled in This Is Spinal Tap, and the experiences enjoyed by Venom, the legendary heavy metal group he has fronted, on and off, for almost 30 years, and he is instantly dismissive. “That movie was never…