Phantoms vs Fire : Modern Monsters I & II

There are very few artists working today quite like Thiago Desant, aka Phantoms vs Fire. His music is informed just as much by his visual aesthetic as his musical aesthetic. When you start out your creative ventures as a graphic designer I feel it allows your musical creativity to bloom in a completely different and […]

Pinkish Black : Concept Unification

Pinkish Black are a band that rose out of the ashes of another band, The Great Tyrant. Daron Beck(Keyboards, Synthesizers, Voice), Jon Teague(Drums), and Tommy Atkins(Bass) were a three piece out of Denton, TX that made music which could be called experimental. I’d call it a nightmare creation that sounded like a late-60s psych band […]

Dave Harrington Group : Pure Imagination, No Country

Dave Harrington is a sound collage maker. He’s known as a guitarist, but he’s far more than that. With the smooth guitar vibes of David Gilmour mixed with the eclectic ear of Brian Eno, Harrington builds intriguing castles of noise that touch the limits of ambient, jazz fusion, and even post-rock at times. My first […]

Silver Apples : Clinging To A Dream

I have to be honest, besides a vague awareness of the name I wasn’t all that familiar with Silver Apples. I knew they were instrumental in pushing electronic music into the ears of folks that would go on to revolutionize the genre. Experimental electronic, Krautrock, motorik beats, and the whole German electronic music scene of […]

Stranded Dreams and Beautiful Chaos

Back in December I bought an album by Body/Head. It’s the post-Sonic Youth break-up album that Kim Gordon did with fellow guitarist Bill Nace. It’s essentially Gordon and Nace in a studio,each with a guitar and amp. Gordon has a mic that she improvises words. It’s not singing. It’s like psycho therapy through spoken word […]