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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Music From Tom Waits, Metric, Russian Circles, Justice, and Thomas Dolby

October 26, 2011 - 1:13 am

Russian Circles’ Empros is the one to get…Metric remixes, Skinny Puppy returns with a vengeance…Scott Weiland releases a Christmas album…dad, Santa filled my stocking with dirty needles!…and Brian Wilson covers Disney songs…clearly The Rapture is at hand…see you in a week…

Kid Koala, Space Cadet
Metric, Fantasies Flashbacks [Vinyl box set] – Remixes of tracks from Fantasies
Raleigh Moncrief, Watered Lawn
Chris Watson, El Tren Fantasma
Ozric Tentacles, Paper Monkeys
Of Montreal, Cassette Box Set [10xCASS] – Limited edition of 500; includes tape versions of 10 LPs
Russian Circles, Empros
Roots Manuva, 4everevolution
MF Doom, Operation: Doomsday [2xCD or 4xLP] – Expanded reissue of 1999 album
Tom Waits, Bad As Me
Brian Wilson, In the Key of Disney – Covers of songs from Disney movies
Christina Vantzou, No. 1
Surfer Blood, Tarot Classics EP
Skinny Puppy, handOver
Christina Vantzou, No. 1
Scott Weiland, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Film Film Fridays: Satan’s Coolest Scenes (And Lamest)

by Jeff Nau

August 20, 2011 - 5:03 am

5.Gabriel Byrne – End of Days
In the only good scene in the film, Satan (Gabriel Byrne) goes to pee, gets possessed by the devil, and returns to dinner – then grabs some girl’s boob, sticks his tongue down her throat, and makes the restaurant blow up behind him. Obviously he wasn’t impressed. Don’t think, it has boobs and explosions… and you’re only 5 minutes in. Movie’s over.

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Music Dance Like It’s The Depression: HOBO-TECH

by Dustin Downing

April 6, 2011 - 11:46 am

HOBO-TECH is a type of, well… “depression-era” techno if that makes any sense. The genre is steaming full speed ahead thanks to Jon Margulies and his pioneering use of rocking techno beats, smashed up freight train noises, iron skillets and and synthed-out accordions. Added to this curious concoction are hooks and samples taken from some of Americana’s finest the likes of Tom Waits and John Lee Hooker.

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Gallery New York City She’s My Coney Island Baby

by Zoetica Ebb

July 19, 2010 - 12:44 pm

…She’s my Coney Island giiirl. Tom Waits songs aside, Coney Island is a place of fable and legend. At least what’s left of it is. Ask a seasoned New Yorker about its history, and you’ll get an earful of freaklore, circus fairy tales, and nostalgia, along with anger at the merciless gentrification that’s been eating the peninsula alive since before WWII. Between the tearing down of amusements to make room for housing projects and resorts [and funnel out the “tawdry” entertainment and its community] to recent waves of family-friendly zoning, it will be a wonder if any of Coney Island’s history will remain in place five, or even two years from now.

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New York City Hotel Chelsea: Rock and Roll Digs

by Gala Darling

June 15, 2010 - 3:09 pm

No other hotel has as much rock ‘n’ roll history. So, it’s not perfect — or particularly opulent. There is no room service, some of the rooms are more “grunge” than chic, & there is a bullet hole in the door in the 5th floor corridor. But it’s absolutely worth a visit to soak up some atmosphere.

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Music Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen

by Barbie Brady and Matt Brady

April 26, 2009 - 9:39 pm

For the past 42 years Leonard Cohen has been making some of the most important, beautiful, passionate songs ever written. His ability to infuse a song with emotion transcends time, only getting better with age and experience. Actually being able to see the man himself onstage is a little like the second coming. After all, he is the “jew who wrote the bible”.

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Music Eastern European Dance Off

by Jacob Cottingham

April 8, 2009 - 10:51 am

It seems like Eastern Europe is finally starting to get some respect from Americans. Nico Bellic and the GTA giant made thick accents cool. Gogol Bordello has been able to take his mustachioed gypsy punk to a mainstream audience while smaller acts like Golem and The Sway Machinery are putting a fresh spin on ancient sounds.

The Sway Machinery’s Hidden Melodies Revealed: “Anim Zemiros”

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