Category: music
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Noctiluca.
Noctiluca, at first listen, is more like Sleepwalking Sailors than it is Night Terror or Stillicide–more of a gradual pummeling than a carpet-bombing. It’s a reminder that Helms Alee is more versatile than most bands, a reinforcement of the idea that, despite the band’s unabashed heaviness and facility with metallic screams and grit, they are, at their…
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Darryl Zero’s Albums of the Year List – 2016
I never finished this. I gotta get the 2017 list started, though, so here ya go with an unfinished post. So…2016 was actually a really good year for music. I can’t lie; I was pretty content with a lot of stuff. Don’t even have a ton of stuff to say other than that, really. I’m…
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ZERO’S LIST OF 100 GUITARISTS WHOSE ABILITIES HE APPRECIATES MORE THAN THAT OF JIMI HENDRIX, JIMMY PAGE, ERIC CLAPTON, AND ALL THE OTHER GUITARISTS EVERYONE FREAKS OUT OVER
I have ten guitarists I love above all others: 1) Prince 2) Eddie Hazel 3) Chuck Berry 4) Ian Williams (Battles) 5) Tyondai Braxton 6) Vernon Reid 7) Dr. Know (Bad Brains) 8) Carlos Santana 9) Michael Hampton 10) Ben Verellen (Helms Alee) and the rest, numbered only to keep place–I love them all in…
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On Battles, part two.
Seeing Battles for the first time without Tyondai Braxton threw me for all kinds of loops. For one, I’d heard the new Battles single and hated it. HATED it. Even months later, I still can’t stand it–the arrangement is okay, but the vocals are silly, pandering, and completely uninteresting to a point at which I…
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On Battles, part one.
I can’t remember when I first heard of Battles; it would have to have been before mid-2003. I’m going to say it was mid-2002 or so, because I was doing some digging and looking for anything on Ian Williams. I was a huge fan of Storm and Stress at that point, just coming down from…
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in which i go off for no particular reason about music.
I’ve probably written about this before, but I’m going to do it again. I can’t put an exact date on when I decided irony (or the perception thereof) was killing music. Yes, my perceptions are clouded by the social climate of the city in which I’ve spent the majority of the past decade, but if…
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Now granted, I haven’t seen the film, and my critique of its social implications and/or import is of an entirely aesthetic nature, but it seems to exemplify all the things about post-boomer culture that I find distasteful, the things that people seem to be convinced are the things that define so-called “Generation X” and its…
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But, really, the fact that I think about this at all makes me the biggest loser in the room.
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Lyrics
“Isz” light of impact and breath, I’m spiraling upward it’s taken me long enough to take to the breeze I’m taken by your warmth and abundance I swim in you and your folds and, to taste you is something between that of water and air, water and air I’m alight, I’m aglow as my back…
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top 100 of the decade. part 1.
So–rather than be like Pitchdork, I’m going to start with the top 50 and continue with the next 50…