Clarity. This is the central theme that becomes immediately apparent on Parallax, the third Atlas Sound long-player. Here, Bradford Cox’s distinctive echoed voice is cleaner, more familiar, like he’s hovering right above you. There’s a lot of space between his vocal melodies and the rest of the clamor. It’s a natural phenomenon/progression: artists attempting to [...]
Brand spankin’ new one from Reigning Sound. “Eve” from their forthcoming mini-album, Abdication. MP3: Reigning Sound :: Eve _____________________________________________________________________________________
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can now be heard twice, every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 217: Count Chocula – Intro ++ Bob McFadden And Dor – The Mummy ++ The Blue Echoes – It’s Witchcraft ++ The Cramps – Goo Goo Muck ++ [...]
Lux Interior: inter-dimensional, pan-sexual, time-traveling rock & roll alien. And radio host. As Halloween draws nigh we’re revving up for our annual airing of The Purple Knif Show, the one-off radio program hosted by Lux in 1984 deep in the bowels of Hollywood. As master of ceremonies, Lux runs through his personal archives spinning the [...]
One of the most unique, unheralded albums of the 60s, the C.A. Quintet’s Trip Thru Hell was a small indie pressing of under 500 from the Candy Floss label, making it a very rare 1968/1969 release. Originals will set you back a pretty penny, but for the die hard may be worth it considering the [...]
May Aleister Crowley put a curse on the house of Twilight for de-fanging the Lycanthrope. To counter-balance that bullshit, take a listen to Fang’s 1983 “Diary Of A Mad Werrwoulf” – a two and half minute, gnarled, punk howler. Imagine the aural equivalent to the transformation scene in An American Werewolf In London. Trick or [...]
(Videodrome (yup, a David Cronenberg homage) is a new recurring feature in which we’ll highlight exceptional videos and/or performances. The series kicks off today with AD contributor (and New Orleans native) M. Garner’s take on Neil Young’s post-Katrina cover of the Bobby Charles penned, Fats Domino hit) As any casual viewer of David Simon’s Treme will tell [...]
A highlight of Lou Reed’s 1989 album New York, “Halloween Parade” is as evocative as it is chilling. Through a processional cast of characters the track chronicles the decade’s AIDS epidemic and the friends Reed lost to it. Subdued, while the wistful narrative works well enough on its own, it is expertly employed as the [...]
I picked up Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary upon its ’98 release and then kept up with tales of a supposed film adaptation for years afterwards. Bouncing in and out of development and pre-production, by the mid ’00s most fans had largely given up any hope of the film coming to fruition. But alas, [...]
You’d be forgiven for not realizing it had been seven years since the last Tom Waits album of new material. Between the enormous wealth of fantastic, previously unreleased songs on 2006′s Orphans boxset and the 2008 Glitter and Doom tour and subsequent live album, it hardly seems like Waits was relaxing exactly. But it’s also [...]
