17.4.10

Kongh






Swedish atmospheric doom trio. These guys are fucking heavy. The new album Shadows Of The Shapeless was finally released here in North America on Seventh Rule Records (who still haven't released a bad album). Both albums clock in around the one hour mark but only contain 5 epic songs each. Walls of epic guitar riffs, thundering bass and crushing drums blanket each track. If you like Disappearer, Isis, Khanate and YOB then get ready to have your head blown out of your ass by Kongh.
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Dinosaur Jr - Out There




Here is a pretty great bootleg recording of the band on the European festival circuit in 1997 while touring behind Hand It Over. I came across this on the freesofree board, and it is one of the best live recording of the band I've ever heard. This is the lineup of J., Mike Johnson and George Berz and they plow through these songs with an intensity seldom found on Dinosaur Jr studio albums. Tracks 1-9 were recorded at the Water Festival in Stockholm Sweden, and tracks 10-12 were recorded a week later at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne Germany.
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Dinosaur Jr - Zombie Worm




This is a compilation of the bands SST years. It was released in Japan only and coincided with their 2006 reunion tour over there. There are also two live songs recorded at the Metro in Chicago, Il on the initial 2005 reunion tour that are pretty killer.
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16.4.10

Dinosaur Jr - Some Singles












Here are some Dinosaur Jr singles from their tenure on Blanco Y Negro/Sire Records. Most of the b-sides saw the light of day on the Whatever's Cool With Me EP or the Green Mind/Where You Been Reissues, but the two Feel The Pain EP's contain some rad unreleased songs. The Live Tracks EP is a high quality recording of five Dinosaur Jr tunes that stretches over 30 minutes (due to extended soloing) and has a killer track list: "Feel The Pain" (obviously), "Get Me", "Grab It", "What Else Is New", and "Sludge". The Feel The Pain single has the song "Get Out Of This" from Without A Sound with the vocals replaced by a searing solo by J. throughout the entire song. On the Get Me single Matt Dillon sings back-ups on their cover the Flying Burrito Brothers' song "Hot Burrito #2", Matt also directed the video for "Get Me", and more recently "Been There All The Time".
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15.4.10

Band of Susans - Love Agenda (1989)



Love Agenda (1989)

One of the early New York noise rock bands from the late 80's. Features Page Hamilton before he was in Helmet. One big beautiful wall of sound.
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Hey Mercedes










After the dissolution of Braid, 3/4 of the band soldiered on as Hey Mercedes. I saw this band a bunch of times in both London, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan and they were always spot-on. Their drummer is fucking incredible, both live and on record. The debut was released by Polyvinyl while everything else came out on Vagrant. Hey Mercedes as a band also wrote amazing bridges for their songs, even if you don't like a song at first wait for the two or three-minute mark for them to shift gears and pull out the catchiest riff you've ever heard. Everynight Fire Works is my favourite album, but each release is great, especially the EP's.
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Buzzov*en - Welcome To Violence




This is a compilation released by Alternative Tentacles in 2005 that contains the bands debut album To A Frown as well as the EP's Wound and Unwilling To Explain. Dark depressing sludge music. These guys were even more drug fueled and violent than their friends and tour-mates in Eyehategod. Crank this up and totally bum out your neighbors.
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13.4.10

Bison B.C. - Dark Ages




I've only listened to this beast once through but, holy fuck, does this thing ever slay. These guys really give Mastodon a run for their money in the riff department, as bad-ass riffs are piled high on each track. Dark Ages is definitely one of the best albums released this year, these jams are seriously heavy.
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12.4.10

Awesome Color








Brooklyn by way of Detroit garage/psych rockers. These dudes play Detroit style stompers, ala the Stooges and MC5 (the singer grew up across the street from the Stooges' Scott Asheton). All three of these full length albums were released by Thurston Moore on his Ecstatic Peace! record label. I saw these guys open for Dinosaur Jr. a couple years ago in Ann Arbor and they were pretty rad. Being that the show was right in the singers hometown, his Dad came out to blaze a couple solos during their set. If J Mascis and Thurston Moore both dig these guys then you have no reason not to check them out.
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10.4.10

Attack In Black












The best band to ever come out of Welland, Ontario. These guys have progressed so far in an incredibly short span of time. They began as a gruff punk band but have evolved into one of the best folk/country infused rock bands around and they still haven't written a bad song. Here in Canada they achieved some minor radio success with the single "Young Leaves" from the album Marriage, but instead of churning out a string of releases in that vein they did a total 180 and have released more personal lo-fi albums recorded in the basement of singer Dan Romano's parents house. They've toured up here with Built To Spill, Jimmy Eat World, Ladyhawk and The Constantines and have always held their own. If anyone has their split LP with Baby Eagle I'd love to hear those songs as well as the Ian Blurton recording of Marriage that I know is out there somewhere.
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9.4.10

Ladyhawk








Vancouver's Ladyhawk are one of the best bands in Canada, no question about it. I've seen them live a bunch and they always put on one hell of a live show. They sound kind of like Dinosaur Jr mixed with Wolf Parade, which is pretty fucking rad. If you like Attack In Black's more recent output, Black Mountain or The Constantines then give these guys a gander.
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Crocodiles - Summer Of Hate




Los Angeles noise-pop duo. This was one of my favourite releases last year. Like a more sunny Jesus and Mary Chain, or alternatly a more wild and distorted Echo and The Bunnymen. If the whole album sounded like the song "I Wanna Kill" then this album would've been huge.
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Scissorfight - Jaggernaut




New Hampshire noise mongers most recent album. The story goes that they recorded this album twice: The first time around producer Andrew Schneider's hard-drive crashed and they had do it all over again. Whatever the circumstances this album is a true rager. Jaggernaut is both heavy and catchy and vocalist Iron Lung sounds better than ever.
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8.4.10

Dinosaur Jr - Odds & Ends









Here are a couple releases by the band that we haven't posted yet. Fossils compiles all the bands singles from the SST era into one package. The Quest EP was released in 1995 (Japan only) and is really a mixed bag of studio outtakes, live recordings and radio sessions. The BBC In Sessions album contains eight songs from the Bug-era of the band and two tracks with just J. on electric guitar and Mike Johnson on the acoustic, presumably recorded after drummer Murph split. The track "Goin' Blind" was selected by Gene Simmons over The Melvins version for the Kiss tribute album Kiss My Ass.
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Haystack



Right At You (1996)



Slave me (1998)


Speaking of Uffe Cenderlund, here is two fantastic albums from the Swedish noise rock band. This is the closest thing to Unsane that any band will ever get, and I love it. Haven't been able to stop listening to it since I realized entombed was coming to town soon. Thanks Sweden, you're the best.
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7.4.10

JR Ewing












My second favourite Norwegian band (after Turbonegro). The now defunct JR Ewing play intense hardcore that wouldn't sound out of place on the Gravity Records roster in the mid-90's. They've released albums on Coalition, GSL, and Dim Mak records. Everything this band released was totally rad. If you dig Das Oath, Angel Hair, Heroin and At The Drive-in, Jr Ewing is going to make you shit yourself.
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Disfear - Live The Storm




Swedish D-beat masters' most recent rager. After Torche's Meanderthal, this was my favourite release of 2008. Having Uffe Cederlund (Entombed) on guitar and Tomas Lindberg (At The Gates) on vocals guaranteed that this album would absolutely slay.
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Entombed - Left Hand Path




The classic debut album. Left Hand Path contains one of metal's most recognizable guitar tones that bands are still aping to this day. Swedish death metal at its finest.
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1.4.10

Q And Not U - Different Damage




This is their second(and some say best) full length release, recorded by Ian Mackaye and Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studios and released by Dischord Records in 2002. In my post of their Dischord debut No Kill No Beep Beep, I basically said this was a non-essential release, and that just isn't true. Different Damages may be a little less frantic and slightly more focused album than No Kill, but it is every bit as rewarding of a listen.
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Tomahawk - S/T




Alt-metal supergroup featuring Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle) on vocals, Duane Denison (Jesus Lizard) on guitar and John Stainer (Helmet, Battles) on drums. This is a concept album about a serial killer as he recounts his story to a psychologist. This album sounds like a true sum of all its parts. Beyond rad drumming, interesting guitar riffs and the unmistakeable vocals(shreiks/shouts/croons/yelps/grunts) from one of the coolest dudes to ever walk the earth.
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