The best multi-member bands tend not to rely on simple individual addition to create their exceptional art. Rather, each additional member is a multiplicative increase, or even better, exponentially so. Not just leveling skill gaps, overlaps between members sport a synergistic effect that, unlike the lie of giving 110%, truly accounts for each member’s ability to enhance … Continue reading Vandal Moon ~ Heroine Dancer [2⊘23]
While some bands may strive for a level production in most endeavors, others prefer to more proverbially “fly by the seat of their pants“. A Place To Bury Strangers, often known simply as APTBS, is firmly stationed in the latter with their renowned live performances considered … Continue reading A Place To Bury Strangers ~ Let’s See Each Other (Grimoose Remix) [2⊘21]
Many of us, by necessity or simply by habit of life, are writers and as such are admonished to brevity in all things written. Use only as many of the correct words, in the correct places, as are necessary to convey your thoughts to your audience. Band Boy Harsher appears to strive for … Continue reading Boy Harsher ~ Pain [2⊘14]
Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee is a demonym Los Angelean supergroup comprised of Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst (previous drummer for The Cure), Budgie (drummer for Siouxsie and the Banshees), and Jacknife Lee (producer for Taylor Swift, R.E.M., and U2). The “x” between their … Continue reading Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee ~ Uh Oh (feat. Arrow de Wilde and Mark Bowen) [2⊘23]
Money, power, and sex. The near-perfect 21st-century trifecta and three words that explain so much of our world. They are the figurative carrots society uses to encourage compliance and creativity to its benefit. Not a perfect system, but one that has managed to usher in an untold technological revolution in a critically short period of time. And not without cost, as greed is a powerful motivator if an insatiable master — ask any … Continue reading METRIC ~ Gold Guns Girls [2⊘1⊘]
