Historical Article 12/19/2012 zZz is a band from Japan; its kind of ambiguous whether they moved to Brooklyn or are on an extended tour… Not sure… but they are great regardless. ZZZ is an all girl noise-rock band. The album is full of amazing rhythms, basslines, and guitars tones that will blow both your knee […]
Historical Review: 12/14/2012 Thrashy, 77 style punk-surf rock, 2008 release re-released by In the Red this Jan, by Traditional Fools, a Ty Segall project, invades your face with grungy guitars and stretched-out, near monotone singing (totally Reed style). The record is almost some sort of deranged re-imagined early Beach Boys record, except much louder and […]
Historical Review: 12/14/2012 Another part of the Ty parade. This one, another re-release, “Reverse Shark Attack,” was recorded back in 2009 on Kill Shaman. Ty and Mikal drown the noise in your head with with their sick spacey filthy garage rock; spewing through speakers that sound as though they were cut with a shard of […]
Historical Review: May 3, 2012 Meta-modernism is the new post-modernism–reimagining threads of the past to create nostalgic, yet fresh new sounds, images, or writing. Somewhat different from how Post-modernists deconstructs what once was and rebuilds from there–it lacked the nostalgic feeling. New Haven’s Estrogen High’s newest record, “Irrelevant Future,” certainly fits the meta-modernist movement quite […]