“From Beer to Eternity” is announced as the band’s second final album in the last six years. “The Last Sucker” back in 2007 was a fabulous album, if not the best, one of the very best Ministry albums, anyway, probably my favorite one beating some legendary albums like “The Land of Rape and Honey” (1988), “The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste” (1989), “Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs” (1992) or “Filth Pig” (1996), not quite accidentally, half of the albums featuring the recently deceased guitarist Mike Scaccia, his death being the reason why Jourgensen announced that Ministry would break up again. He said: “Mikey was my best friend in the world and there’s no Ministry without him”. Mike Scaccia was an important contributor not only to Ministry, but also to Lard, Revolting Cocks and Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters. Scaccia died onstage playing with his band Rigor Mortis, due to a sudden heart attack at age 47. R.I.P. Mike, you will be always missed!
While “The Last Sucker” was the 3rd and final part of the band’s anti-George W. Bush trilogy, preceded by 2004’s “Houses of the Molé” and 2006’s “Rio Grande Blood”, “From Beer to Eternity” seems to be a furious rage against media and especially against Fox News, defending president Barack Hussein Obama. Media is bad and bought-up, got it! If back then we all were on the same page, now I’m still not sure who is worst: George W. Bush or Barack Hussein Obama? There is no honest politician, there is no such thing as “politically correct”, no such thing as political righteousness. But enough with politics!!
Now about the music. “From Beer to Eternity” contains dark and very heavy music. We’ve got some extremely powerful and memorable riffs, but also some contorted, twisted off trips into the experimental noise (and breakcore) area. Read more Ministry – From Beer to Eternity (2013) ›

I grew up listening my mom’s vinyl records. She had a serious, few thousand pieces collection, including classic symphonic music, jazz, pop, rock and punk records. I loved simultaneously Bach and The Beatles, Grieg and The Clash, Chopin and Deep Purple, Tchaikovsky and Kraftwerk – and so on. As many times I said, there is no good and bad music, but music which touch you and music which don’t. True, lately too many prefabricated, predictable, tasteless, “fake and plastic to the bone” type of music poisoned the stage and the market.
I write music reviews for more then 20 years now. I ended up at the microphone of a garage band at 16, 17 – a lifetime ago – and for good and bad, I’m “doing” music ever since. Still, I don’t consider myself a journalist or a musician. My uncle is a trained, professional cello player and back in the days when I spent my summer vacations in his hometown, instead kicking the ball with the other kids in the backyard, I was put to play the piano. His wife was a cello player too, sometimes they played together back home, rehearsed, exercised a lot, and I get use to and liked the aggressive sound of that instrument.
So, I’m not a stranger to classic music, to the cello, and receiving David Downing’s “Cosmic Conspiracy” album was actually a nice surprise in a world lately dominated by midi based and exclusively mainstream oriented music. Actually I almost gave up this site, I deleted all the post and I was sick and tired of the music I receive. David Downing’s new album is a challenging journey to the experimental fields of classic flavored music mixed up with cinematic soundscapes, noise and rock elements. Get an exclusive, free promotional track from David Downing album now and then buy the album! Read more David Downing – Cosmic Conspiracy (2013) ›

Between “Hey You” (Pink Floyd) and “Irresistible Force” (Jane’s Addiction), between digital contortions and analog warmness, keeping original moments and building new monsters, but focusing on the message, this is one of the best mixes I did. This is an uncommon way of saying “Hey, you..!” A warning or a wake-up call. Technology seems to taking over while the man lost his soul. But when the power is out you will have to face yourself and your emptiness…
Featuring Rich and Soundy Audio – special thanks for editing, engineering, mixing and mastering this!

 

Reznor came back haunting. Honestly, it was just a matter of time to see Reznor resurrecting the good old Nine Inch Nails trademark and starting all over. Although I was cool with How to Destroy Angels, it was predictable that his fresh start had not the same impact and resonance as the Nine Inch Nails name had, have and will have. Although, “Welcome Oblivion” was a fair, exciting, mature Reznor album and “Hesitation Marks” are picking up from where both Nine Inch Nails with “The Slip” (2008) and How to Destroy Angels left off. Some people need to hang on to labels, to stick to established trademarks, so be it! Nine Inch Nails are back, long live How to Destroy Angels! Or any other way around! 😆
Anyway, if Reznor switched back to NIN only because this trademark assure a bigger commercial success then the use of the less known How to Destroy Angels, that says a lot about us, the audience, consumers, whatever, and not at least the media and the industry, rather then anything about Reznor and the music itself.
Still, there are lot of arguing and debating about Reznor’s contribution, his legacy and how relevant it is what he’s doing lately. Well, no offense, but Skrillex and all the alikes will parish in a few months/years (fortunately, some already did!), while Reznor definitively have something to leave behind, at least a couple of fabulous albums and several unforgettable songs. Industrial or not, it’s another issue, I think it’s totally pointless. This is simply contemporary music. Period. And there was always a sensitive difference between the Nine Inch Nails studio albums and the Nine Inch Nails live performances, I always loved both, but the live performances always were murderous. And it’s not different this time around, check out 2013-07-26 Niigata, Japan, Fuji Rocks Festival performance and you will be nailed. Literally. Read more Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks (2013) ›

If you know this band, you’re a bloody son of a bitch, if you don’t, well, you’re consuming the oxygen in vein! 😆 Kidding and not quit. This is really good. Juicy, vivid, fresh fusion music with roots back to Frank Zappa and reaching out to Mr. Bungle and Cardiacs. Bold, true blood avant-garde.
Ladies and gentlemen, David Minnick strikes again!

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This is a true rock’n’roll story from the dawn of the 70s spiced with street gangs, territory fights, illegal trades, drugs and prostitution, rivalry, murders and the fresh spirit of The Beatles.
Three brothers, Benjy, Victor and Robert Melendez were among the founding members of the Ghetto Brothers. While the 1960s was giving way to the rise of gang culture in the Bronx, the Melendez brothers were playing Beatles pop songs on street corners in a tribute band they called “Los Junior Beatles”. Later, they began paying attention to rising urban activist groups such as the Black Panthers and Puerto Rican nationalist group, the Young Lords. “Los Junior Beatles” officially took the name “Ghetto Brothers” and played frequently at community events. The songs they wrote became more socially conscious, as did their gang. Empowered by the revolutionary spirit, the Ghetto Brothers became a positive organization that cleaned up their streets, pushed out the drugs and prostitution, boosted morale and kept the community safe. The Melendez brothers were also Sephardic Jews that practiced their religion in secret while being part of a Hispanic community.
The “Power-Fuerza” album was informally released in Read more Ghetto Brothers – Power-Fuerza (1972) ›

First of all, there are several enthusiast and eulogistic reviews, which is pretty cool considering that we’re talking about an experimental jazz trio. Pitchfork call it “something totally unprecedented”; NPR considered that it’s “sounds like something completely different”; The New Yorker felt like “an hour flew by in what seemed like minutes”; The Guardian stated that “it sounds like nothing else right now”; The Los Angeles Times heard “a mysterious, vital sound with a pull all its own” while The Wall Street Journal describe it as “deep, entrancing soundscapes”. It’s all cool and honoring, but in my humble opinion Dawn Of Midi simply picking on the nowadays fancy, pattern based, some say soulless, computer based and programmed music, making (bitter) fun of it in a subtle, sober way. So, this is a jazz trio playing live a music which is basically – and murderously – minimal, monotonous and repetitive just like 99.9% of the contemporary and computer based “music”. They actually repeat the same note/chord till the very limit of supportability and just when you consider that you had enough, and only then, they change a note, introduce something wickedly cool. Pretty clever. It’s definitively a (modern) form of art, I actually pretty much enjoyed this album, consider it relaxing by it’s monotony and lack of interruptions and disturbances, but then again, this is much more a statement then revolutionary, unheard, strikingly bold and unthinkable new way of express yourself, express feelings or build-up music. Might be surprising for those who are actually believe that Michal Jackson was some musical genius, but never heard of Liszt… Read more Dawn Of Midi – Dysnomia (2013) ›

According to Wikipedia, Dynasty Electric is an electro-rock duo from Brooklyn, NY consisting of vocalist Jenny Electrik and multi-instrumentalist Seth Misterka. The band was formed in 2003 by Seth Misterka, a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer with a background in a spectrum of musical genres. Misterka has worked with artists such as jazz musicians Anthony Braxton and William Parker, and indie bands Hot Chip, Shy Child, and The Fever. He provides guitar, electronics and saxophone for Dynasty Electric. Misterka met Read more Dynasty Electric – Euphoria and Supersonic Love remixes ›

“From a junior high school talent show to festival stages—such is the journey of Down With Webster. They’ve crawled their way from the absolute bottom with only the dream of success to feed their hungry stomachs, and now they’ve touched success, recently signing with Universal Canada.
Now Down With Webster and Indaba Music want you to remix “One In a Million”. Take the highly remixable stems to this pop tune and make it your own. Let’s see how well you stand out from the multitude of remixes.” – Indaba Music.
According to Wikipedia Down with Webster, or DWW, is a Canadian rap rock band from The Beaches area of Toronto, originally formed for a middle school talent show. They released their first official EP, Time to Win, Vol. 1, on October 6, 2009. The band has achieved success from all three singles released from Time to Win, Vol. 1. All three singles were certified Platinum in Canada. The album itself was certified Gold in Canada. Their second release, Time to Win, Vol. 2 was released on October 31, 2011.
Down with Webster has sold over 50,000 albums and has sold nearly 500,000 singles. The band has been nominated for Juno awards, MuchMusic Video Awards and Canadian Radio Music Awards.
Call me ignorant, outdated, Read more Down With Webster – One In A Million remix contest on Indaba ›