Heart
broken and heart felt, “Elsie” the new album from Brian Fallon’s side project
band “The Horrible Crowes” comes at you like a stripped down bluesy
manifestation of life and love all gone wrong. Lead by Brian Fallon of “The
Gaslight Anthem” and his guitar tech Ian Perkins. Brian takes his Bruce
Springsteen inspired lyrics and style to another level with this, blue collar,
broken, and kicked down album. A record that pulls at the very essence of
everyone’s eternal battle with life and brings you back together after being
torn down, an album that reflects the soul and imagination of a “Lady Killer”
ripping out the very spirit of a man’s heart, “Behold the Hurricane”.
The Horrible Crowes "Behold the Hurricane"
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
A New Perspective
Artists, Musicians, freaks, beasts and
degenerates; all enamored by the beauty of the dark, the taboo, and the slums
of love. Artists like Salvador Dali, and
R. Crumb; Musicians like Kurdt Cobain, Jim Morrison, and Elvis Presley; freaks
and beasts like writer and author Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemmingway and Dr.
Hunter S. Thompson; all have changed the
world in some supernatural way, starting fires, creating wheels, pulling us
from the monotony.
So what is out there now? What’s on your playlist, does it break the
mold? Lately it seems as if music has went
from “Gangnam Style” to “The Harlem Shake”, and the days of sampling vinyl and
playing an instrument have become lost arts.
However, there are still bands out there, still playing great music;
Bands like the Deftones, Everlast, Bullet for my Valentine, and newer bands
like Imagine Dragons, Mumford and Sons, and Hot Water Music. Unfortunatly finding newer up coming artist or even artists writing new music has become the new challenge, surfing through Youtube or Vevo is about the only option out there, and since many of these artist have been shoved to the side, it has been increasingly more difficult to gain a new perspective of new music.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell. A mild introduction to a soon to be not so mild critique on music today and of yesterday.
Music thrives on some consumption of its own
mortality, like a jester playing king, but when does this self-proposed
degradation of reality become more than just a simple reproduction of
everything else. The industry seems to
be able to churn out this seemingly endless supply of superfluous entertainers like
it was as simple as molding clay into unsophisticated geometric shapes, and
where the industry ends their madness the media perpetuates it, spinning it
like a broken record. However, when music
breaks that image, that image the industry so kindly pushes down the mouth of
the mass populace, something beautiful is created. This perfect symbiotic relationship happens between
the frustrated lackluster lost soul each one of us have and that significant
message that we are not alone creating a way to break free of that, to lose
ourselves in a moment, find that one epiphany, that one thing to drive us
forward. Driven by an unexplainable force
to create something not for affluence, but for a higher purpose, to shed light
in the dark places, to find the forgotten, and bringing them back from the bellows of
Hell.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)