Posts Tagged ‘Earth’
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

There’s plenty of musical inbreeding as well as doom, drone, and psych this week as we sort through new releases from Sunn O))), Khanate, Grizzly Bear, Sir Richard Bishop, Master Musicians of Bukkake, and Vieux Farka Touré. (more…)
Tags: Alan Bishop, Alan Dubin, Ali Farka Toure, Asva, Bill Frisell, Bill Horist, Blind Idiot God, Burial Chamber Trio, Conspiracy, Don McGreevy, Drag City, Dylan Carlson, Earth, Estradasphere, Eyvind Kang, Ghidra, Greg Anderson, Grizzly Bear, Hydra Head, James Plotkin, Jessika Kenney, John Coltrane, John Zorn, Julian Priester, Khanate, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Milky, OLD, Oren Ambarchi, Phantomsmasher, Randall Dunn, Secret Chiefs 3, Sir Richard Bishop, Six Degrees, Southern Lord, Stephen O'Malley, Sun City Girls, Sun Ra, Sunn O))), Tim Wyskida, Timb Harris, Toumani Diabate, Vieux Farka Toure, Warp
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Bill Frisell: All Hat
Mid-May brings a beautiful country-Western soundtrack from Bill Frisell, neoclassical strings and mid-’90s alt-rock from Skeletonbreath, modern acoustic jazz and African sounds from Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Strings, and precise, über-melodic math rock from Upsilon Acrux. (more…)
Tags: Bill Frisell, Black Earth Ensemble, Black Earth Strings, Cuneiform, Delmark, Earth, Emarcy, Ernest Jenning, Exploding Star Orchestra, Frequency, Hella, Indigo Trio, Minus the Bear, Nicole Mitchell, O'death, Paul Motian, Robert Pycior, Shellac, Skeletonbreath, Tera Melos, The Jesus Lizard, Upsilon Acrux
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Details emerge about new albums from Isis, Tortoise, Akron/Family, and Stinking Lizaveta; Zu announces some dates for a world tour (a pair of which are with Mike Patton); Dark Meat will go on tour with its 17 members; the Scion Rock Fest hosts a spate of crushing metal bands in Atlanta on February 28.
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Tags: Akron/Family, An Albatross, Baroness, Boris, Busdriver, Ches Smith, Congs for Brums, Cryptopsy, Dark Meat, Dead Ocean, Earache, Earth, Ephel Duath, Grails, High on Fire, Ipecac, Isis, Joey Baron, John Zorn, Kylesa, Marc Ribot, Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, Mastodon, Mick Harvey, Mike Patton, Moonchild, Nachtmystium, Neurosis, Nick Cave, Rwake, Secret Chiefs 3, Stinking Lizaveta, Thrill Jockey, Torche, Tortoise, Toxic Holocaust, Trevor Dunn, Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant, Tribes of Neurot, Xiu Xiu, Zoroaster, Zu
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Jazz/jam trio Medeski, Martin & Wood (shown left) leads our picks of the week, but its new disc is followed closely by dreamy hip-hop fusionist Koushik, organic hip-hop group Look Daggers, and more.
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Tags: 2Mex, Akimbo, Bill Frisell, Breakestra, Earth, ECM, Indirecto, John Zorn, Koushik, Look Daggers, Martin & Wood, Mastodon, Medeski, Naked City, Neurot, Paul Motian, Stones Throw, The Mars Volta, Up Above
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