Upstream Color - The Score

Shane Carruth put the score to his upcoming film Upstream Color - the follow-up to his BRILLIANT Primer - on his soundcloud page today. Go to see it here.

I posted the trailer for Upstream color about a month or so ago but here it is again because I just CANNOT wait to see this movie!!!

Black Sabbath in the Studio

I have no illusions that "13" - 3/4ths of the original Black Sabbath's first record since the late 70's - will be good, but hopefully I'm wrong. Sabbath's original "Ozzy" years are among the most cherished albums I've encountered in my lifetime, but you know - you can't go home again. The band released a song sometime in the late 90's, I believe it was called psycho man and it was so terrible I'd prefer not to even look it up to confirm that. I'd prefer you abstain from doing the same.

The reunion is not complete as Bill Ward isn't involved, but I can't say the idea of Iommi, Butler and Ozzy recording a new record doesn't intrigue me at least a little bit, thus the video above. You never know. (yes you do!).

Courtesy of blabbermouth

Ghost Becomes Ghost BC, New Album 4/09

Seriously, what is with all the April release dates this year? I mean, it's usually a music heavy month, or at least has been for the last couple of years, but this is getting ridiculous.

Exclaim.ca tipped me off to the fact that due to "leagal reasons' Ghost have changed their name to Ghost B.C. The newly christened band will release their new record - Infestissumam - on April 9th via Loma Vista Recordings.

Sepultura with Mike Patton

In spite of the fact that the new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds record is out today, it appears to thus far be a Patton day. The bass drop at 0:29 hits me in the chest every time.

Actually let me go ahead and do all the Patton/Sepultura I know of:

FAITH NO MORE - Poker Face/ Chinese Arithmetic

Naked Raygun - Last Drink

NEW DILLENGER ESCAPE PLAN IN MAY!!!

I had no idea - once again Brooklyn Vegan comes through! "One of Us is the Killer" comes out in May on Sumerian Records by way of the band's own Party Smasher Inc. In the meantime, I'd never seen this before and it was every kind of awesome I thought it'd be and more: Now, if you're unfamiliar with DEP here's one of their songs for a little juxtaposition (watch the singer in the hood at about 0:08):
I first saw these guys open for Mr. Bungle on the original stint of the California tour. I had no idea who they were, all I knew was one minute my friends and I were near the front of the stage waiting for the show to start, the next the lights went out and furious strobes sent the whole room into seizure-mode. Five violently spastic and extremely intense individuals appeared and began to make music the likes of which I'd never heard before. These figures on the stage didn't look like people, they looked like... demons. Demons made entirely of static. I was literally afraid. Years later I was backstage at a show at Chicago's Metro with my friend Dave when we saw the guitar player smash his guitar and send it sailing out into the crowd where it connected with someone's face. 

Face.