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- Bate and Switch page 1 – Music – Village Voice – Village Voice
- Second Time ut JR Does Life by Stereo
… Matt Costa & More: New Releases – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jan 22, 2008
href} {button:true} ); The Northeast and many other parts of the country are locked in the dreary winter blues at the moment with the denizens nipping at their frostbitten fingertips and gnawing on their chapped lips in anticipation of sunnier days and warmer nights. But lucky for the music fans among them a magical spring awaits inside your local CD store! Grab a light jacket and a pair of binoculars and take a stroll with us as we check out this week’s New Releases… Biirdie — who have a nest in Glendale California — flutter their wings to the country-infused orchestral sounds of their Catherine Avenue album. Giving us a Hitchcockian scare the Birds of Prey swoop down. The flock — which includes members of Baroness Municipal Waste and Alabama Thunderpussy — peck away at us with their metal-icious second album Sulfur & Semen. Philadelphia’s Birds of Maya start biting into us too with their loud new Holy Mountain release Vol. “Those Birds Are Bats” our friends Mahjongg tell us before busting out some dance moves and enigmatically adding “Kontpab. Where there are birds there are bees and both are as one on Birds by Collections of Colonies of Bees.
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Village Voice – Jan 22, 2008
” The Mars Volta have been onstage for two and a half hours. Another minute longer and they might go blind and we deaf. The din here on a frigid Monday night in the cavernous tightly packed not-terribly-appealing-in-any-regard midtown club Terminal 5 is pulverizing an aural prog-jazz-metal swamp that hits like a brutish physical force like an enormous pie to the face. with wailing falsetto howls 15-minute wheedly-deedly-doo guitar solos and in Prigden’s case a percussive style best described as ne Giant-Ass Drum Fill. Every time he hits a cymbal an uppity Sam Ash salesman dies. This is all slightly awesome and severely wearying… ” Shocked a lot of people. Broke a lot of hearts. And though the causes of death are myriad and of course unknowable (and probably at least partly drug-related) one constant internal complaint was that both of those guys were bored. Insufficiently challenged. The way At the Drive-In subsequently cut in half was too perfect: The other three guys started a straight-ahead painfully dull alterna-rock band Sparta; Cedric and mar convened the Mars Volta and started bitching long before they’d converted anyone.
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Crosswalk.com – Jan 22, 2008
com now and join the single largest online community of Christian music fans on the internet. CMCentral features daily music news exclusive interviews album reviews weekly devotions and feature articles written by some of your favorite Christian artists and much more. CMCentral is also the home of the most popular Forum for Christian music fans that you’ll find anywhere on the Internet. How about a link? A taste? Anything?And no the link to CM Central doesn’t help because I still need to search the web site. In this case the profile for J.