I haven’t heard a British rock band sound so good in years and Silence Will Kill You is now one of my favorite albums to date. Meet foot stomping rock n’ roll, music to give you a swift kick in the ass to feel better and addictive indie tunes with power: meet Some Velvet Morning. It’s eleven songs on Silence Will Kill You, of emotionally driven, catchy lyrics that urges you to add your voice and participate in human history. Silence Will Kill You encourages human involvement and there is no excuse to be passive after hearing this record. This is more than just a rock n’ roll album put together to have some fun on a Saturday night, it’s music that wants you to think.
Teletextile - Care Package
Self-released (2007)
Art rock / Indie
Teletextile is the post-musical project of the Pamela Martinez Band. Lead singer Martinez is quoted on the band’s Web site as saying, “[Teletextile's] name comes from an obsession with relating music and art you can touch and feel like fabric.” Enlisting another talented multi-instrumentalist, Brian Hamilton, [...]
Six - Between the Warning and the War
1605 Records (10/23/07)
Rock / Metal
How best to describe Six’s latest offering, Between the Warning and the War? Basically it’s a metal band taking all the elements of the hardcore genre and spewing it forth without falling into the worst subtlety of the genre—the simple nature of the song [...]
Emerson Hart - Cigarettes & Gasoline
Manhattan Records (7/17/07)
Rock / Pop
Anyone reading this would more likely recognize Emerson Hart as the frontman for the band Tonic, a group which, in the mid-’90s, scored one (and only) big hit with “If You Could Only See”.
Now on his own, Hart has crafted an album that fails to measure [...]
Quick intro for those new to the show: Bassnectar plays big shows and back alleys at a clip of about 150-200 shows per year. You’ve probably heard one of the many generic derivatives of Bassnectar’s sound if you’ve been to any nightclub in the world: bass-heavy, electronic notes over the club-supplied smoke machine and $12 cocktails.
On Underground Communication it’s easy to hear the difference between Bassnectar and all of the imitators. With apologies to Gertrude Stein, there is a there, there.