CD Review: Ghost – Infestissumam
More is all you could wish for. Review by David Feltman Ghost is one of the most beautiful sounding bands in modern metal; it’s also one of the creepiest. Taking its theatrics seriously, Ghost revels in costumes and face paint, recreat ...
CD Review: Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor
There is something subtly different about this album, something darker and meaner. Review by David Feltman A lot about Rob Zombie’s fifth album is going to sound familiar to long time fans. At this point in his career, it’s difficult to find new angles o ...
CD Review: Phoenix – Bankrupt!
Bankrupt! is just as content to turn out synth drenched dance tracks as trippy and lingering electronic experiments. Review by David Feltman Parisian indie rock outfit Phoenix has been around since the turn of the century with five albums under its bel ...
CD Review: Steve Martin and Edie Brickell – Love Has Come For You
The stories of broken hearts and abandoned children are at the heart of Love Has Come For You. Review by David Feltman Comedians, by nature, can be hard to take serious, but funny man Steve Martin has proved to be a bit of a Renaissance man. Aside from ...
CD Review: Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge – Twelve Reasons to Die
Ghostface Killah may have just created the script for the first Quentin Tarantino musical. Review by David Feltman While fellow Wu-Tang clansman the RZA has been pursuing filmmaking aspirations with the kung fu flick “The Man with the Iron Fists,” Ghos ...
CD Review: The Flaming Lips – The Terror
Like a haunted carousel or a broken music box, every inch of song is rich in warbling, pulsing, clanking, scraping sound. Review by David Feltman As one might guess from the title of The Flaming Lips’ newest album, The Terror has none of the bubbly, ko ...
CD Review: Warbeast – Destroy
The Texas thrashonistas double down with gleefully cheesy Godzilla-inspired artwork and classically hyperbolic lyrics. Review by David Feltman Thrash had all but passed from metal consciousness. Nu-metal came and went (thankfully) and metalcore claimed ...
CD Review: Dave Grohl & Friends – Sound City: Real to Reel
This is not so much a soundtrack as a celebration of musical history. Review by David Feltman Music critics rarely put forth the effort to review movie soundtracks, but Dave Grohl’s Sound City documentary is so musically enamored and its soundtrack so ...
Interview/CD Review: Spoken – Illusion
by David Feltman For 17 years, Spoken has never been happy standing still. The Arkansas quartet has transitioned through multiple sub-genres in their career, from rap metal, nu-metal, hard rock, post-hardcore, metalcore, etc. At this point it seems tri ...
CD Review: Puscifer – Donkey Punch the Night
Puscifer's Donkey Punch the Night EP is a menagerie of the beautifully bizarre and unexpected. Review by David Feltman Ever the vessel for Maynard James Keenan’s rampaging musical id, Puscifer entertains any and all of the man’s musical ...