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DANIEL BROCKMAN
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The Strokes | Comedown Machine
RCA (2013)
The Strokes burst out in a post-9/11 musical world with a sound that was compact and airtight, melodies coiled frictionlessly in beats and fuzzed vocals.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| March 18, 2013
KMFDM is a drug against bore
"In hindsight, honestly, it's almost impossible how it all happened."
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| March 13, 2013
Pallbearer survive extinction
We all know that there is nothing more metal than a war.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| February 20, 2013
What's F'n Next? Chvrches
Glasgow, Scotland
If you are in a band and you've heard of Chvrches, you probably hate them.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| February 01, 2013
Gliss | Langsom Dans
Modern Outsider (2013)
If rock and roll is three chords and the truth, then the mutant genre offspring shoegaze can be summed up as one chord, three fuzzboxes, and a sullen, muttered bleat.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| February 01, 2013
Bloody Hammers | Bloody Hammers
Soul Seller Records/Sacrificial (2013)
Presented as some kind of satanic pigfuck ritual, this North Carolina quartet's debut is far less doomy than advertised.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| January 29, 2013
Interview: Ian Svenonius is here to stay
Super natural
In his new book, Supernatural Strategies for Making A Rock ‘n' Roll Group (Akashic), Ian Svenonius lays out a plan for a neophyte intending to enter the world of competitive rock.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| January 22, 2013
Holy Grail | Ride the Void
Prosthetic Records (2013)
Prosthetic Records (2013)
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| January 16, 2013
Graveyard pull their weight
Any rocker worth his salt eventually realizes the paradox of total heaviosity: even the heaviest riff requires a light touch, and moments of brutal rage become meaningless without some lightness to offset the shade.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| January 08, 2013
The soft touch of Jessie Ware
Fashioning a personal sound is a mysterious and difficult process. In Jessie Ware's case, the end result, her glistening and stirring 2012 debut, Devotion (Universal), shows just how magical this kind of alchemy can be when done right.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| January 11, 2013
Seasonal forecast: A wintry mix of sounds from A$AP to Depeche Mode
I think that I speak for at least some kind of majority when I say "2012, don't let the door hit ya!"
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| December 21, 2012
Descending into madness: National pop of 2012
Harvests are deteriorating, polar icecaps are melting, eternal global war is a way of life, and people seem to think that Japandroids are the future of rock.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| December 18, 2012
Marvel Comics’ untold story: Interview with Sean Howe
In Sean Howe’s masterful new book, hundreds of interviews with Marvel insiders yield an intriguing tale as gripping as any X-Men story arc.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| December 06, 2012
Musical literary stocking stuffers
GIFT GUIDE 2012
The choices for books by and about rock stars are almost endless this season. Here are a few.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| December 05, 2012
Boxed and Ready: CD Box Sets
GIFT GUIDE 2012
Hey, the Rolling Stones’ 50th anniversary isn’t the only ancient history to get hopped up about this year — here are some other treasures from the vaults.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| December 05, 2012
The explosive center of Boys Noize
Electro
In recent years, the ascent of electronic music has caused some anxiety among the sensitive and the conservative.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| November 26, 2012
Lamb of God's arrested development
Lamb of God, a crew of Virginia pummelers who have been riding the rock-and-rollercoaster since their formation as Burn the Priest in 1990, had this year reached a point that veteran bands often do, when the momentum of their early, hungry stage was replaced by a machine-like state of perpetual activity.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| November 19, 2012
Kreayshawn battles back
Kreayshawn is a prime example of the type of supernova pop-star cycle that we can expect in the Internet era; not only because of her meteoric rise and almost-as-powerful backlash, but in the way that fame gives her fans and detractors alike such personal access.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| November 14, 2012
Kvelertak put rock in a chokehold
Kvelertak's missives come packaged in dark roiling paeans to Norse gods and demonic urges, filled with screamed yearnings and frantic warnings.
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DANIEL BROCKMAN
| November 08, 2012
Earning interest in MillionYoung
It could be said that Mike Diaz, a/k/a MillionYoung, is living through the adolescence of his musical career.
By:
DANIEL BROCKMAN
| November 01, 2012
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[Q&A] Handsome Dick Manitoba on Dictators, White Castle, and being the "heel" of metal / Thursday @ Church
[Q&A] Ross The Boss talks Manitoba, Dictators, Manowar and his quest for the hardest, the heaviest, the fastest, the slowest and the most epic music imaginable
[R.I.P.] Adam Yauch and the Beastie Boys: Revenge of the Nerds
The Problem with the Future of Music: Amanda Palmer and the rise of the music biz Super PAC
[Q&A] Jesse Leach on re-joining Killswitch Engage, the joy of the riff, and keeping the struggle alive
[Q&A] Dr. Know of Bad Brains on the spirit, the youths, and the works
DEV: A pop princess gives lessons on how to be a bad bitch
[live review] Opeth, Mastodon and Ghost shake the Orpheum's foundations whilst questioning metal's central tenets
[RIP] Jim Marshall: this one goes to el-heaven
[sxsw2012] St. Amateur's Night with Dev, Kreayshawn, Dragonette, The Cult, Ritualz, and a million "technical difficulties"