Live review: Baroness at Center Stage Atlanta May 29
The Baroness show felt as much like a celebration as a concert. By Jeff Miles Baroness has returned to the road for the first time since a bus accident in August left the future of the band in question. Less than a week into the tour, a newly revamped ...
Indie Bible helps musicians take career to next level
By Russell Eldridge So, you’ve decided to skip the recording contract and do it yourself. What does a record company do for a band anyway? Recording has become cheaper and it seems that to some bands a CD feels more like a flier annou ...
Digitization debate: is iTunes hurting or helping indie bands?
Something seems very off putting when a band like U2 is using the same distribution as my next door neighbor’s unknown band of beginners. By Donn Aaron The digitization of music has clearly won as far as its being the present and future distribut ...
How I got into THAT band: Fleetwood Mac
For me, Fleetwood Mac is about the raw honesty that is so transparent with the ability to express it so clearly and succinctly. “Freedom” inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams”art by Ariadna Vicente www.ariadnavicente.com By Danielle Boise The fl ...
What do you see in Thomas Dodd’s photography?
Does post-processing take away from the artistic aspects of photography? By Rose Riot I first saw the work of Thomas Dodd on Facebook. A model that I had used and was Facebook friends with had posted pictures from a shoot she had done with a photographer ...
CD Review: Queens of the Stone Age – …Like Clockwork
…Like Clockwork feels like the band is wiping the slate clean and trying to find its voice all over again. Review by David Feltman There’s nothing “like clockwork” about the Queens of the Stone Age’s sixth album. Aside from the fact that the band’s hiat ...
Live Review: Dillinger Escape Plan at Zydeco in Birmingham
Review by David Feltman For a hot and lethargic Memorial Day weekend, there wasn’t a better way to relax than with a bill filled with face-melting metal music and Birmingham’s Zydeco had the perfect lineup. The show started off at 7pm with local grindcor ...
CD Review: ASG – Blood Drive
The riffs on Blood Drive are mean and trudging, but the vocals rarely reflect any malice. Review by David Feltman Despite being based out of Wilmington, NC, ASG captures the arid desert rock of Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age and blends it with the l ...
CD Review: Kylesa – Ultraviolet
The album starts with a sledgehammer and ends with a whisper. Review by David Feltman Kylesa’s special brand of proggy post-sludge lands somewhere sonically in between ISIS and Melvins. The band drips with drone and sludge, but is never afraid to dip i ...