EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD! Baron and Black Mountain
Hear a new collaboration between the DJ and the folk-metal collective.
By David Marchese 10.14.09 7:59 AM
Skaters and metalheads are natural co-conspirators -- nothing quite pumps you up for the half-pipe like raging guitars and shouted vocals. British-born, California-living DJ Baron understands this.
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Legendary L.A. Punk Pioneer Dies
Brendan Mullen, club owner and author of L.A. punk rock history We Got the Neutron Bomb, passes away due to a stroke.
By David Marchese 10.12.09 6:05 PM
Every flourishing music scene owes a lot to scores of people who didn't release any singles or play any shows. Brendan Mullen, who passed Monday in Los Angeles at the age of 60 after suffering a massive stroke, was one of those good folks. Without him, the first fiery wave of L.A. punk would have been very different -- and far less well remembered.
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Q&A: Rob Halford of Judas Priest
The colorful frontman talks about his new clothing line and his feel-good holiday album. Honest.
By David Marchese 10.12.09 8:23 AM
During his main gig as lead singer for metal masters Judas Priest, Rob Halford prowls the stage in black leather and wails about Jack the Ripper. So no, he's not the first dude you'd think would record a holiday album -- or design t-shirts.
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Kings of Convenience, 'Declaration of Dependence' (Virgin)
Acoustic twosome strum and pluck away the pain.
By David Marchese 10.09.09 12:33 PM
Five years have passed since we last heard from Norwegian shrinking violets Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe. They're still extremely sad, but now they're showing it in different ways. In addition to well-turned folk melodies and sparkling finger-picking (check "24-25"), the duo now drape their sparse melancholy in gentle Brazilian rhythms ("Me in You") and Gypsy jazz ("Boat Behind").
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Air, 'Love 2' (Astralwerks)
Transcontinental drifters still amusing our bouche.
By David Marchese 10.07.09 5:58 PM
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, 'Summer of Fear' (Saddle Creek)
Brooklyn's Mr. Lonelyhearts places devastating personal ad.
By David Marchese 10.07.09 5:30 PM
On his self-titled 2008 debut, singer-songwriter Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson sounded like it was all he could do to hold himself together long enough to sing about falling apart. Though that album's postaddiction, confessional howl was one of the year's most darkly magnetic listens, it was also cause for artistic concern.
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