Tag issue-4

Interview: Elliott

by bushman All ages gigs aren’t really my thing. Great for the kids. Bad for alcoholics. Plus I gotta say, the kids in San Diego are just too damn polite. I show up to the Epicentre and it’s dark with…

Review: Bender

Bender ““Jehovah’s Hitlist”” (TVT Records) Attitude rock bubbling with a diverse approach.  Melody always intact even when they hit the loud guitar chord chorus.  Singer Kent Boyce can command a range sounding like a bastard son of Eddie Vedder and…

Review: Coldplay

Coldplay ““Parachutes”” (EMI) The vitality of wistful adolescent love and youthful perplexity is captured so unassumingly here.  Parachutes sails through heavenly textured melodies with an understated grace, approaching the listener with a child-like bravado.  Often foolishly labeled as another U.K.…

Review: Cradle Of Filth

Cradle Of Filth ““Midian”” (Koch Records) The one, the only, Cradle Of Filth are back with their third full-length disk “Midian”.  The band specializes in the phenomenon of shock metal which is only gathering speed and evil.  The band that…

Review: Crowbar

Crowbar ““Sludge: History of Crowbar”” (Spitfire Records) Crowbar is one of those bands that the more I hear, the more I like.  And “Sludge: History of Crowbar” has a lot to love.  These fifteen tracks spanning a eight year, six…

Interview: 40 Grit

by bushman While on hold to speak with Chris the guitarist from the Bay Area’s own 40 Grit, the music on the Metal Blade telephone system just happened to be…40 Grit. I was treated to “Serving Time” and lamented that…

Review: Angelo Moore as Dr. Madd Vibe

Angelo Moore as Dr. Madd Vibe ““The Yin Yang Thang”” (Asian Man Records) “Flow to the coconut groove grove with milkshakes, gumbo and a hurricane to drink/Now let’s smoke a bowl of ganja and think!”…Just shy of a Malcolm X…