Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Rx Bandits - Mandala (2009)
Alternative Rock / Experimental
2009 offering from the best thing ever to come out of Orange County chucks the horns and some of the pop hooks in favor of a looser, album-oriented jam rock feel.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Nickelback - Dark Horse (2008)
Drunken-Sex-Core / Awesome Rock / Brilliant
Currently the biggest rock band in the world lament that life is passing them by a little faster than they thought, and they want to spend a little time with you, preferably with something in your mouth.
Special Guest Reviewer Theodore Retar
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky (2009)
Post-Rock / Post-Metal / Instrumental
Post-rockers with an earthy name and a metallic twist, If These Trees Could Talk borrow inspiration from Tool as much as from modern classical composers or Explosions in the Sky, and the results are riveting, to say the least.
“This is why Pitchfork sucks.”
Scrapple.tv presents a “trusted panel of elder music critics [spinning] the latest in alt-rock, hip-hop, and beyond!”
Translation: elderly ladies and gentlemen sitting in a diner and giving their opinions on music by Animal Collective and Fuck Buttons, among others. Affix your keyboard sneeze guards now to avoid any unfortunate sprays of soda from your nasal passage.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Final - Dead Air (2008)
Dark Ambient / Industrial / Electronic
The creepy crawly washes of ominous noise which comprise Final’s Dead Air make its title especially fitting. If you can’t afford a white noise machine, it’s worth a go.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Opus Dai - Touch The Sun [EP] (2008)
Hard Rock / Alt-Metal / Alternative
A new vocalist means slightly less testosterone for Opus Dai, but it does little to diminish this rock solid troupe’s high octane, guitar-centric, and (in some world, perhaps) radio ready onslaught.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Transistor Transistor - Ruined Lives (2008)
Screamo / Rock / Hardcore / Noise
Transistor Transistor’s splatterpunk sonics crossbreed blasting, Refused-style guitar riffs with vocal hooks welded out of impure noise. End result? Completely mosh-worthy, albeit unsurprising screamo rock.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
she - Chiptek (2008) [EP] [FREE MUSIC]
Bitpop / Electronica / Retro
Fans of the Gameboy-fueled sounds of she’s debut Pioneer will eat up the similarly constructed Chiptek, “layered with filters and mixed with sounds from sega, nintendo and msx and the familiar sweeping sounds of she.”
she - Coloris (2008)
Electronica / Dance / Funk
Swedish electronic artist and bitpop revivalist Pjat Lain emerges from a slew of slower output and plants a foot into the modern dance club scene with the funkified Coloris.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Loma Prieta - Last City (2008)
Screamo / Hardcore / Prog-Punk
San Francisco screamo act Loma Prieta rub elbows with prog, but it’s mostly overshadowed by standard overdoses of sub-grindcore screaming.
