Showing posts with label Frank Zappa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Zappa. Show all posts

Saturday, December 18, 2021

Dance with the Dead - Driven to Madness

 

New Dance with the Dead on the horizon! The new album Driven to Madness is out on January 10th. No pre-order I can find yet, but I love the track. 




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I finally made it around to watch Alex Winter's Zappa documentary last night. Really well-made flick that served as a fantastic refresher for me - I read Zappa's autobiography back in the mid-nineties and, while I found it endless endearing and fascinating, twenty-something years later, I just don't remember much about it. Enter Winter's doc and I feel like I have reconnected with a lot of what I learned to love about Frank Zappa. I'm no die-hard, however, the music by Zappa - and specifically The Mothers of Invention - that I like, I really like. And I like it even more when I hear the man who wrote it talk about the process and intention behind such unique, amazing music. 




Playlist:

Nun Gun - Mondo Decay
Liars - The Apple Drop
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes 
The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
Windhand - Eternal Return
Chicano Batman - Invisible People
Zeal and Ardor - Devil is Fine
Miami Horror - Illumination
Zonal - Wrecked
Zonal - Eponymous (single)
Zombi - Shape Shift
Godspeed You! Black Emperor -  F# A# ∞
King Woman - Celestial Blues
Ghost of Vroom - Ghost of Vroom 1
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
David Bowie - Stage
Kadavar and Elder - Eldovar: A Story of Darkness and Light
Umberto - Prophecy of the Black Widow
Allegaeon - Apoptosis
Dance with the Dead - Driven to Madness (pre-release single)
Dance with the Dead - Into the Abyss




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Hmm... possibly a nod toward a strange new venture that I have started in the world of NFTs? Too early to tell, but perhaps this is a suggestion I continue.

Monday, November 9, 2020

Pallbearer - Forgotten Days

 

Pallbearer is a band I've dabbled in a bit, but who have never clicked with me. Until this past Saturday morning. Up early despite my best intentions to stay in bed, I made a big 'ol pot of joe and sat down to do some writing, fired up my headphones and somehow wound up listening to the new album, Forgotten Days, two times in a row and thus, cementing an immediate bond.

Order Forgotten Days from Pallbearer's Bandcamp HERE or from Nuclear Blast records HERE.




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Holy smokes. Magnolia is releasing a Zappa documentary:   





Playlist:

Pallbearer - Forgotten Days
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife
Carpenter Brut - Blood Machines OST
Paul Zaza - My Bloody Valentine OST
Orville Peck - Pony
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Sir Neville Marriner and Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - Amadeus (OST)




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A new beginning you say? Not entirely, but I like the optimism.