Middle Class Rut – New Low (Video)
Got the new video for New Low by Middle Class Rut. Quite intense and disturbing. The music on the other hand is ferocious, honest and original. No bullshit, no wanky pretensious guitar solos, no fashion-y concept. Just pure power. Opening vocals in the beginning reminds me of Brand New‘s Millstone from The Devil And God...
Dinosaur Pile Up
Leeds represent! Dinosaur Pile-Up from Leeds has got a new album, Growing Pains out now. It’s the album that’s been hotly tipped since Zane Lowe dropped a track on his show a few years back. Fucking GRUNGE as hell. The riffs are proper durgy, heavy stuff man. Traynor (this version) is my favorite: [Video: Dinosaur...
Stephen Farris
What Stephen Farris (aka Cosmic Sound, also of Ghost Mountain ) does, in a nutshell, is recycle old, nearly disintegrating VHS tapes rescued from charity stores and then somehow cutting up, extracting and arranging the visuals and mostly the sound into his music. Like Gold Panda, just more 8 bit. And unlike Hudson Mohwake or...
Conil
The opening guitar lead and the subsequent riffs toConil‘s track Stoned has the strong odour of Nirvana – but instead of veering into total grunge noise chaos, Conil’s rough, gravel voice and songwriting steers it into a more sophisticated kind of rock. Perhaps the grunge-ness can be attributed to the fact that his album, Strange...
