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 Together since 2005, MayOrWest got their start practicing at guitarist Pete Cataldo's apartment on Hoboken's Jackson Street. The four-piece alternative punk rock band has since performed throughout Mile Square City at venues including Maxwell's and The Dubliner, the location of their first show. "Our friend bartended there and said he could get us a gig. We only had three original songs, [so I told him] we could play a bunch of covers," Cataldo said. The band played nearly 30 songs for three-and-a-half hours. An enjoyable experience, they've been performing and recording ever since. I sat down with the quartet outside Hotel Victor Bar and Grill over beers as they filled me in on their lives as musicians, the inspiration behind their songs and near death van experiences traveling to gigs. Easy-going personalities coupled with a hard work ethic, MayOrWest is one Hoboken act to pay attention to. For my complete interview, visit Hoboken Patch. Related Links: ? Band of the Week: The Boxer Rebellion ? Artist of the Week: Joy Ike ? Artist of the Week: Amy Regan ? Band of the Week: Titus Andronicus  Source: http://yousingiwrite.blogspot.com/2010/1 |
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Gong Xi Fa Cai to all my readers! Here's wishing everyone a joyous and prosperous new year that's filled with an abundance of all good things  Will be missing out on all the fun festivities (and angpows) back home while I'm away for holidays in Melbourne till mid-February. Till then, party hard and be safe! *cheers*  Source: http://baldwinchua.blogspot.com/2011/01/g |
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Rush frontman Geddy Lee has been interviewed for an upcoming issue of Terrorizer magazine, and he had some thoughts on the nature of Rush's music, the meaning of the term "progressive rock," and...Radiohead.
Source: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/ru Pernice Brothers The Postal Service St. Christopher The Lucksmiths |
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Stargazing in Winter has recently relocated. You can now find my blog at the following address: http://stargazinginwinter.blogspot.com Thanks for your interest!  Source: http://iguitaround.blogspot.com/2012/01/n |
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Hello, sadly the guys that formed the dark ambient duo , Coil, are no longer with us. Interestingly over the years they amassed a considerable cult following and today, Coil remains one of the most influential and best known industrial music groups xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx Coil was formed in 1982 following Balance and Christopherson's departure from Psychic TV. Balance and Christopherson began working with John Gosling on the project Zos Kia, which resulted in four live performances and the 1984 cassette tape Transparent. Following Gosling's departure Balance and Christopherson teamed up with Boyd Rice, and under the alias Sickness of Snakes released the split album Nightmare Culture with the experimental group Current 93. While working on their first official release, 1984's 12" How to Destroy Angels, the group settled on the name Coil. According to the sleeve notes, the single track LP is "ritual music for the accumulation of male sexual energy" and was produced under a variety of technological, spiritual, and meteorological conditions which the band felt to be magickally significant. Since its initial release How to Destroy Angels has been remixed by Nurse with Wound's Steven Stapleton and released on a full length CD. Following the underground hit How to Destroy Angels, Coil left L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords for Some Bizzare and produced Scatology, released in 1984 as their first full length studio album. The album was largely based on the sound of industrial music as well as the Post-punk movement. The single Panic/Tainted Love became the first AIDS benefit music release. The "Tainted Love" music video, directed by Peter Christopherson, is on permanent display at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Horse Rotorvator followed in 1986 as the next full length release. The album is characterized by slower tempos, and represented a new direction for the group, aswellas a darker theme than previous releases. After the release left Some Bizarre Records, due to the record company's debt of GB£10,000 to the group.Gold Is the Metal with the Broadest Shoulders followed as a full length release, marking the beginning of the label Threshold House. Love's Secret Domain ( LSD) followed in 1991, it represents a progression in their style and became a template for what would be representative of newer waves of post-industrial music, blended with their own style of acid house. Coil separated their works into many side projects, publishing music under different names and a variety of styles. The pre-Coil aliases, Zos Kia and Sickness of Snakes, formed the foundation of a style that would evolve to characterize their initial wave of releases. Coil's wave of side projects represent a sort of primordial soup from which the group evolved a different style of sound. While Nasa Arab?credited to the group's project "The Eskaton"?was Coil's farewell to the acid house genre, the following projects, ELpH, Black Light District, and Time Machines, were all based heavily on experimentation with drone, an ingredient which would define Coil's following work. These releases also kicked off the start of Coil's new label Eskaton. After the wave of experimental side projects, Coil's sound was completely redefined. Before releasing new material, the group released the compilations Unnatural History II, Windowpane & The Snow and Unnatural History III. In March 1998, Coil began to release a series of four singles which were timed to coincide with the equinox and solstices of that year. The singles are characterized by slow, drone-like instrumental rhythms, and electronic or orchestral instrumentation. Astral Disaster was created with the assistance from new band member Thighpaulsandra and released in January 1999 via Sun Dial member Gary Ramon's label Prescription.[15] Although the album was initially limited to just 99 copies, it would later be re-released in substantially different form. Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 1 followed in September 1999 and a few months later Coil performed their first concert in 16 years. Queens Of The Circulating Library followed in April 2000, with production credit given to Thighpaulsandra. Coil's live incarnation has a distinct legacy of its own. The first live shows took place in 1983, but after only four performances, sixteen years would pass before they would play live again. Coil's performances were surrealistic visually and audibly. Balance, Christopherson, Thighpaulsandra and Ossian Brown were known to dress in fluffy suits; an idea inspired by Sun Ra. The suits would later be used as album covers for the release Live One; Live Two and Live Three . Many Coil performances were released, including the widely available releases of Live Four, Live Three, Live Two, Live One and ...And The Ambulance Died In His Arms, as well as several very limited editions such as Selvaggina, Go Back Into The Woods and Megalithomania!. Coil incorporated many exotic and rare instruments into their recordings and performances. The group expressed particular interest in modular synthesizers, including the Moog synthesizer.they are among the few artists who have been granted permission to use the one-of-a-kind experimental ANS photoelectronic synthesizer. Other instruments the group incorporated into their music included the theremin and electronic shakuhachi. John Balance died on 13 November 2004 after having fallen from a second floor landing in his home. Peter Christopherson announced Balance's death on the Threshold House website and provided details surrounding the tragedy. Balance's memorial service was held near Bristol on November 23 and was attended by approximately 100 people. Following Jhonn Balance's death Peter Christopherson announced via their official record label website Threshold House that Coil as an entity had ceased to exist. The already-planned live album ...And The Ambulance Died In His Arms was released in April 2005, the name having been chosen by Balance before his death. The final studio album, The Ape of Naples, saw release on 2 December 2005. In August 2006 the rare CD-R releases The Remote Viewer and Black Antlers were "sympathetically remastered" and expanded into two disc versions, which included new and recently remixed material. A comprehensive 16-DVD boxset, titled Colour Sound Oblivion was released in July 2010. A "Patron Edition" was pre-orderable in November 2009 and was sold out in three hours. Christopherson had also discussed the possibility of releasing Coil's entire back catalogue on a single Blu-ray disc. Unexpectedly, and six years after his Coil partner, Peter Christopherson died in his sleep on November 24, 2010 at the age of 55. Coil's distribution and marketing techniques sometimes included releasing a limited number of albums making them collectors' items among devotees. Including things such as "art objects", blood stains and sigil-like autographs in the packaging of their albums, Coil claimed that this made their work more personal for true fans, turning their records into something akin to occult artifacts. This practice was markedly increased in the later half of Coil's career. However, Balance expressed interest in having regular Coil albums in every shop that wanted them. Some critics have accused Coil and its record company of price gouging. In 2003, Coil began re-releasing many rare works, mostly remixed. xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) is release by Coil that compiles four of their singles onto a double CD. The two disc album compiles the CD versions of Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice (originally recorded throughout 1998, and released seasonally from March 1998 to January 1999). The album also has a live version of "Amethyst Deceivers" hidden at the end of the first disc, following several minutes of silence after "A Warning From The Sun (For Fritz)". The release features artwork by Steven Stapleton. At the time of release, a mail order edition was offered , comprising the standard 2CD set with the Moons Milk (In Four Phases) Bonus Disc, a CDr of extra material presented in sleeves that John Balance had individually hand-painted. +-.jpg) Coil - Moon's Milk (I,II.III) (flac 356mb) First Phase: Spring Equinox 101 Moon's Milk Or Under An Unquiet Skull (Part One) 8:29 102 Moon's Milk Or Under An Unquiet Skull (Part Two) 8:09 Second Phase: Summer Solstice 203 Bee Stings 4:55 204 Glowworms/Waveforms 5:54 205 Summer Substructures 8:07 206 A Warning From The Sun (For Fritz) 16:33 Third Phase: Autumn Equinox 307 Regel 1:15 308 Rosa Decidua 4:53 309 Switches 4:43 310 The Auto-Asphyxiating Hierophant 5:55 311 Amethyst Deceivers 6:42 Coil - Moon's Milk (I,II.III) (ogg 157mb) xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx The conclusion to the 1998 season series (actually released in January 1999) certainly lives up to the title billing, in that things do sound awfully cold and gloomy this time around. Opening track "A White Rainbow" does it brilliantly, though Balance's upfront, softly echoed vocal backed by viola from William Breeze and buried background chants result in an unstable, fascinating blend. Enough randomly crazed distortion comes in at the end to send everything just enough over the top. The holiday season is invoked with the final track, the traditional "Christmas Is Drawing Near," with Rose McDowell and Robert Lee making a return appearance in the series with an excellent, enveloping performance. The two tracks in between, "North" and "Magnetic North," mix a little more instrumental warmth in here and there, but still come across as attractively alien and distant, rising and falling drones and random melodies floating with Balance's electronically roughened delivery. Coil - Moon's Milk (IV, Bonus disc) (flac 312mb) Fourth Phase: Winter Solstice 412 A White Rainbow 8:52 413 North 3:46 414 Magnetic North 8:50 415 Christmas Is Now Drawing Near 3:26 Moon's Milk Bonus Disc 516 Copal 16:54 517 The Coppice Meat 10:49 518 U pel (Insense Offering) 12:40 Coil - Moon's Milk (IV, Bonus disc) (ogg xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx Available only on dates of Coil's Even an Evil Fatigue tour in 2004, Black Antlers consists of early studio and live versions of songs that were being worked on for the next official studio album. Due to John Balance's accidental death, most of the tracks on Black Antlers would become final yet unpolished versions. "The Gimp (Sometimes)," a ballad never quite comes together over its 11 minutes, failing to mesh the dark, ambient instrumentation with Balance's beautiful and haunting vocals. The second track, however, "Sex with Sun Ra (Part One: Saturnalia)" is a classic late-period Coil track. Balance intones a fictional tale of a conversation between himself and the free jazz legend over a pulsating backing track punctuated by bell tones and sparse industrial percussion. "Wraiths and Strays (From Montreal)" is the highlight of the album, a twisting, slithering, pulsating beast of a track that interleaves Thighpaulsandra's keyboards with Balance's cut-up vocals to hallucinatory effect. As the tempo of the piece increases, the percussion becomes more frenetic and varied, the background squiggles become more aggressive, and the song sounds like it is chasing the listener down a dark alley. While there are some excellent songs on this album, on the whole, Black Antlers doesn't make an appropriate introduction for the uninitiated. For the faithful though, this is a near-great effort from the sorely missed group of alchemists who called themselves Coil.  Coil - Black Antlers (flac 400mb) 01 The Gimp (Sometimes) 11:26 02 Sex With Sun Ra (Part One - Saturnalia) 9:22 03 The Wraiths And Strays Of Paris 8:44 04 All The Pretty Little Horses 4:45 05 Teenage Lightning (10th Birthday Version) 9:15 06 Black Antler's (Where's Your Child?) 7:10 07 Sex With Sun Ra (Part Two - Sigillaricia) 5:11 bonus 08 Departed 6:28 09 Things We Never Had 11:33 Coil - Black Antlers (ogg 181mb) xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx elsewhere Coil - Love's Secret Domain (90 * 98mb) Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 1 ( 143mb) Coil - The Remote Viewer ( 163mb) Coil - The Ape Of Naples ( * 146mb) xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx  Source: http://rho-xs.blogspot.com/2012/04/hello-s |
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 This is The Yardbirds in concert on the 30th March 1968 at the Anderson Theatre, New York, NY, USA and was a soundboard recording.The notes that accompanied this mp3 version sum up the reason this recording surfaced concisely - This show comes from a rather infamous LP. With the success of Led Zeppelin, Epic decided to cash in on Jimmy Page and so released this LP. The hardcore are familiar with the story - the drums were recorded with a single mic, crowd noise was added with the sound of clinking glasses, etc. The result? Jimmy immediately had the Lp pulled off shelves, but not before some got out. This set is taken directly from the original Epic vinyl. The set includes an early version of Dazed & Confused (here called "I'm Confused"), which includes Keith Relfs original lyrics. A CD version appeared in Italy in 1990 on a label called Golden Stars and distributed by Red Line, Srl via Trentacoste in Milan, this was probably taken from one of the vinyl recordings. By 1968 Keith Relf and Jim McCarty wished to pursue a style influenced by folk and classical music while Jimmy Page, at a time when the psychedelic blues-rock of Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience was enormously popular, wanted to continue with the kind of "heavy" music for which Led Zeppelin would become famous. Chris Dreja was developing an interest in photography. By March, Relf and McCarty had decided to leave, though the other two managed to persuade them to stay at least for one more American tour. The Yardbirds' final single, recorded in January and released two months later, reflected these divergences. The A-side, "Goodnight Sweet Josephine", was in the same vein as their Mickie Most-produced singles of the previous year, while its B-side, "Think About It" (later covered by Aerosmith on their Night in the Ruts album), featured a proto-Zeppelin Page riff and snippets of the "Dazed" guitar solo. This last single did not even crack the Hot 100. Wikipedia confirms the issue with Epic Records as follows - A concert and some album tracks were recorded in New York City in March (including the currently unreleased song "Knowing That I'm Losing You", an early version of a track that would be re-recorded by Led Zeppelin as "Tangerine"). All were shelved at the band's request, although once Led Zeppelin were successful Epic tried to release the concert material as Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page. The album was quickly withdrawn after Page's lawyers filed an injunction. On 7th July 1968, the Yardbirds played their final gig at Luton College of Technology in Bedfordshire, England. Source: Epic LP. Sound Quality: Very good stereo mp3@320kbps. Genre: Blues rock, psychedelic rock, rhythm and blues. Set: Full set. Set List: 01. The Train Kept A Rollin' 02. You're a Better Man Than I 03. Heartful of Soul 04. I'm Confused 05. My Baby 06. Over Under Sideways Down 07. Drinking Muddy Water 08. Shapes of Things 09. White Summer 10. I'm A Man Web: Current incarnation official site HERE. (download link in comments below).  Source: http://www.beehivecandy.com/2012/05/yard A.C. Newman Half Man Half Biscuit Velocity Girl Rosie Thomas |
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 Austra: photo by Michael Ligon Kicking off a busier month of concert-going than usual for me these days was Toronto's Austra at the Phoenix Concert Theatre at the beginning of the month. The bigger ticket that night was Feist at Massey Hall but there seemed to be a full-house (if not a sold out one) for the homecoming show for Austra who'd been making waves and touring all year. Doing double-duty that night were twin sisters Sari and Romy Lightman aka Tasseomancy who to me were better known as Austra's dynamite backup vocalists / all-around foxy side women. It was only more recently that I found out that the sisters use to be Haligonian indie folk duo Ghost Bees. Joined by male musicians on keys and drums, the gals stark vocals complimented the lilting folk melodies and subtle instrumentation nicely. Haunting at times, and sonically interesting throughout, they aren't your average folk band. Since the release of their self-titled debut full-length in 2007, Montreal's Young Galaxy were a band I'd suspected would have hit it big by now, which if they had, it'd have been deserved. The band's soaring, dream-pop melodies were never really the mainstream, as mainstream pop has gone over the last five years, but in my opinion could have crossed over easily if only the fickle music buyer had taken notice. With the release of their third album Shapeshifting released earlier this year, it seems that band has discovered dance music, as was obviously displayed by the band during their set preceding Austra. With the entire band dressed in white, including female lead vocalist Catherine McCandless in a flowing white top, it was a visually attractive presentation. Musically, it was quite apparent that the band's recent forays into dance-inflected pop is what's floating their boat these days. A part of me misses their earlier dream-pop sound, but the band seem like a more stimulating live band this time around, especially Mccandless' vibrant movements and tambourine-shaking onstage. Austra's debut album Feel It Break released this past May I will have to say is my favourite Canadian album of the year. Featuring vocalist Katie Stelmanis' stark operatic vocals against a backdrop of pulsating rhythms and synth, along with a bevy of great melodic tunes, it's just such a fantastic listen. Stelmanis greeted the crowd and told us that just a year ago they'd play their first headline show at the Bovine Sex Club and now they were playing their biggest show yet in Toronto, this time at the Phoenix. I was fortunate to catch them live at the sweaty and intimately confining Wrongbar earlier this year during Canadian Musicfest so it's a shame to say that this show at the Phoenix just did not reach those euphoric levels I'd experienced at Wrongbar. I wished the crowd had shown more energy, like the pulsating, dance-infused crowd that greeted Austra earlier this year. The crowd at the Phoenix was wholly appreciative for sure, but definitely lacked the energy that they should have had. given the band's exemplary musicianship. Perhaps the post-midnight set was frustrating for some that Thursday night for those who had to work the next day, but hey, you're only young once. Photos: Austra, Young Galaxy, Tasseomancy @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto (December 1, 2011)  Source: http://mligon08.blogspot.com/2011/12/aus |
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Their third No. 1 single off sophomore release, Need You Now, Lady Antebellum have been making waves in the music scene. Being that I'll be interviewing them next week and spent the past few days researching and watching old videos, I thought it'd be fitting to make "Our Kind of Love" my song of the week. If you have any questions you've been dying to ask Lady A, let me know in the comments! Watch "Our Kind of Love" below.  Source: http://yousingiwrite.blogspot.com/2010/1 |
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 Rachael Sage ? Haunted By You 2012, MPress Records Singer, songwriter, producer and music entrepreneur Rachael Sage releases her 10th album on May 8, 2012. Haunted By You tracks a topsy-turvy period of falling in and out of love, breaking hearts and having her own broken. The result is the three-time Independent Music Award winner?s most raw and emotive work to date. Haunted By You finds Sage at her most elemental, stripping arrangements down to their bare bones, while baring her heart for all the world to see, while she ruminates on love lost and found, and the never ending cycle of renewal that begets it all. Opening with ?Invisible Light?, Sage lays it all on the line in a gorgeous love song full of amazing energy. There?s a quirky feel to this number ? not mischief but something not too far removed, and Sage?s superior melodic sensibility is not left behind. Sage brings a 1970?s singer/songwriter flair on ?Abby Would You Wait?. This is a prospective love song, and Sage fills it with a solid, if subtle groove. ?California? is a lamentation, of sorts, of effort put into a relationship that now seems to be falling apart. Sage is up close and personal here, in a heart-to-heart soliloquy that?s an intriguing mix of raw emotion and intellect. ?Performance Art? is a lush self-reflection on creation, performance and the drawbacks of being a public persona. The parallel and competitive ambivalence between this career choice and romantic attachments is a sub-theme here, and Sage dresses up the whole thing in a gorgeous, string-laden arrangement that flows like honey-laden water. ?Everything? is a song of redemption, with love as the redeemer. From a purely aesthetic perspective, this is one of the most compelling songs Sage has written in her storied career. Sage shows her edgier side on ?Ready?, and it?s hard not to make a comparison to Tori Amos? early work on this song, but it?s just sage showing one of her many creative layers. ? Haunted By You? pushes aside the curtain of unrequited love in a personal missive that is compelling and impossible to ignore. Sage?s powerful lyrics and musical presence will turn heads here. ?Birthday? finds Sage exploring good intentions and human faults, perhaps in the wake of a relationship. Well-written and very real, this number brings laying it all on the line to a new level. ?Hey Nah? is a celebratory love song pull of jaunty piano, funky bass and smooth horns. It is destined to be a fan favorite and has the right feel to be a summertime hit. ?Confession? is a mea culpa full of romantic regret, with Sage bearing her heart completely. ?Soulstice? explores long distance love, using a stripped-down song structure with a lush heart. Sage comes full circle to close Haunted By You, closing with a reprise of ?Invisible Light?. Rachael Sage herself comes full circle on Haunted By You, returning to the highly personal songwriting style that has driven her songwriting over the years. Sage?s powers of perception and analysis are turned inward here, as she explores the landscape of romantic creation and destruction. Musically, Sage is at the top of her game, creating everything from minimalist piano accompaniment to fully orchestrated arrangements, as befits her musical mood. Haunted By You is a Wildy?s World Certified Desert Island Disc. You?re certain to find it a mutual attraction. Rating: 5 Stars (Out of 5) Learn more about Rachael Sage at www.rachaelsage.com. Haunted By You drops on May 8, 2012. You can pre-order the album through the e-tailers below, or from the Wildy?s World Amazon.com store. Amazon CD Amazon MP3 Please note that the Amazon.com prices listed above are as of the posting date, and may have changed. Wildy's World is not responsible for price changes instituted by Amazon.com.  Source: http://wildysworld.blogspot.com/2012/04/r |
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