EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Giraffes - Happy Kwanzaa Mr President EP
Sometimes finding the perfect gift is tricky, frustrating or damn near impossible. But the Giraffes have had no such problem this holiday season. What to give to warm your cockles, make you feel evil and want to get in trouble? How about the five tunes comprising the RCRD LBL exclusive, Happy Kwanzaa Mr President. Combining the sexy velvet danger of Josh Homme, the frightening dynamics of Sabbath and darkly realistic lyrics that remind that the holidays are a nice escape but 09 is going to be a doozy, the Giraffes throw the final rock gauntlet of 2008. Grab this exclusive EP and join RCRD LBL and the Giraffes in wishing Mr President-Elect a Happy Kwanzaa and good luck in the new year.
Sounds like: Queens of the Stone Age, Big Sleep, Annihilation Time, Eagles of Death Metal
The Giraffes - Manchester United
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Triclops! - Cassava + Freedom Tickler + March Of The Half-Babies
Triclops! sound like the Melvins and Jesus Lizard locking horns. Triclops! sound like dumptrucks dropping flaming tugboats on a bed of cars at rush hour. Or maybe a herd of bison. Combining elements of both metal and prog, Triclops are a San Francisco acid punk outfit whose brawny, colossal and toothsome Out of Africa is one of the more overlooked records this year. Below you'll find three cuts that exemplify the noise just described, one of which, the very gnarly "Cassava," is a RCRD LBL exclusive.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Annihilation Time - Just Guzzlin' + Bald Headed Woman
Cardigans and beards, horn-rimmed glasses and songs about falling in love - that's the route a lot of bands take to indie stardom. Dirty denim and leather, grizzle (well, one beard, but you'd imagine it's there to catch errant beer) and songs about, uh, guzzlin' and bitches - that's the Annihilation Time way. Hailing from Oakland and kicking off a tour last night in Asheville, North Carolina that will see them hit the hipster hot spots from Buffalo to Chattanooga, Annihilation Time are a crew you don't want to mess with - unless you're into messes involving sex, booze, illegal substances, firearms, destruction and volume levels that your mom would find highly inappropriate. These dudes are for real and when they offer the options of "worship or be crushed," grab a hymnal (or plastic cup full of beer/whiskey) and say amen (or an expletive of your choosing).
Sounds like: Priestess, Night Horse, Winger
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Night Horse - Don't Need Your Lovin' + Wicked Love
Think Danzig fronting the Allman Brothers Band. Or ZZ Top joining forces with John Lee Hooker. It may sound as improbable as Run DMC walking this way with Aerosmith, but Night Horse combine the blues sludge, the perfectly snarling howl, the dueling guitars and the thundering drums of those unrepentant rockers and add a sinister swagger all their own. If psychedelic blues rock metal was a genre, the band that would pop up on AllMusic would be Night Horse. These five dudes are creating such epic stompers on The Night Won't Hide You that it takes just 7 songs in 37 minutes to make you want to steal a hot rod, grab a pin-up by the waist and make some serious trouble.
Sounds Like: Burning Brides, Priestess, Ancestors, Buffalo Killers
Download: Night Horse - Don't Need Your Lovin'
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: An Albatross - ...And Now Emerges The Silver Pilgrim + Floodgates Released
.jpg)
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the second definition of “albatross,” (the fist being a large-footed bird) is “a constant, worrisome burden.” I bet if Wilkes-Barre, PA’s An Albatross shacked up on your mother’s living room floor, she would probably feel much the same. That’s not fair—I’m sure they’re nice boys, she would say—but if the band’s annihilating mélange of spazcore rhythms and chalkboard-shattering six-strings is anything to go by, these guys are probably out of their goddamn minds. “Floodgates Released” is the best D-Beat hardcore song with an organ in it ever. It sounds like the Birthday Party if they’d magically discovered the Hot Snakes discography. “…And Now Emerges The Silver Pilgrim” is an even less hard to pin down, posing as saxified post-punk one minute before winding around itself like a hyperkinetic tetherball. The An Albatross Family Album—the band's new long-player—drops next Tuesday through Eyeball.
Sounds like: Hot Snakes, Melt Banana, Fuck Buttons
Exclusive Download: An Albatross - ...And Now Emerges The Silver Pilgram
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Making Eagles Of Death Metal's 'Heart On'
It’s Friday evening. If there’s anything bumming you out tonight, you can listen to the devil garage blues of Eagles Of Death Metal and afterwards you will probably think even breaking a television sounds like a good plan for the evening. That is power. EODM have a new album coming out October 28 through Downtown Music called Heart On and we have an exclusive visual look into the making of the record, a series of four in-the-studio clips that have a lot of new song snippets and pontification on the debauchery of Los Angeles from main man Jesse Hughes. Watch them above and after the jump along with some freshly announced tour dates, including current dates with The Hives.
Previously:
Stream: Eagles Of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)
DOWNLOAD: Black Mountain - Tyrants
.jpg)
This record has been out for a bit now, but with a swiftly approaching Bowery Ballroom appearance, (September 23), it seemed like a good time to revisit our friends from the Great White North. The eight-minute song is always a bit of a dubious proposition, but Black Mountain have packed this song with enough melody and variety to put a stop to all the clock-watching. Listen as the galloping Thin Lizzy guitars play leapfrog with mellotron and a finger-picked acoustic, while the male/female vocals stitch it all together into one big stoned tapestry. None of the twists and turns in this prog-metal epic shocked me as much as the final minute, where the previous bombast gives way to what sounds like a Dinosaur Jr. b-side about Dungeons & Dragons. Download and go looking for that 16-sided die.
Sounds Like: Dead Meadow, Sunn, Comets on Fire, Black Sabbath
VIDEO THRWBCK: Converge - The Saddest Day (Live In Baltimore 2003)
Boston's Converge have been doing their thing for so long that I can drop anecdotes about seeing them play at the Manville Elks Lodge in New Jersey when Clinton was still in his first term. Since then, they have written many, many killer metalcore songs, but they will never top this, their triumph—the union of mosh with trash with hardcore. Wowzers.
- Elliot Aronow
DOWNLOAD: Mr. Gnome - Night Of The Crickets + Rabbit + Pirates
.jpg)
The two Nomadic souls that make up Mr. Gnome, Nicole Barille and Sam Meister, have been transversing the American hinterland and living in a van since late 2007. In between stops, they've crafted the airy, darker-hued songs of Deliver This Creature. On the album, shrill industrial rock soundscapes are cloaked by the airy coos of Ms. Barille, who sounds like Mazzy Star meets Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O. Like Portishead, their songs prefer to linger, creep and itch towards the edge of total destruction - crescendoing - without losing focus. Forget their name- focus on their depth of sound.
SOUNDS LIKE: Portishead, Mazzy Star, Black Sabbath, Boris
Download: Mr. Gnome - Night of the Crickets
Jessie from Eagles of Death Metal Does Denny's
Downtown's own Jesse "The Devil" Hughes, of Eagles of Death Metal fame, recently stopped by a Los Angeles Denny's to add some special recipes to Denny's new Rock Star Menu. All of Jesse's creations have hearts, in honor of the new Eagles of Death Metal album coming this fall, "Heart-On". See more pics on the Denny's blog. Yes, late night restaurant chains have blogs too.
Site developed by Gelo Factory
