-
September 20, 2011 by hhbrady
Though DJs the world over (of which I am one, thank you WKNH Keene, NH) know the importance of a …
Continue reading
Category: Album Review, Jazz
|
Tags: Album review, Arts, Five Spot, Gil Scott-Heron, I'm New Here, Jazz, orphans, piano, Poetry, pop, Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Robert Johnson, spoken word, Tom Waits, vocal
-
September 17, 2011 by hhbrady
Not sure what the title means. They’re allegedly Quite Satantic, but that’s not important right now. They’re Mercyful Fate with …
Continue reading
Category: Album Review, Metal
|
Tags: Album review, Arts, Conspiracy, in solitude, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, Metal, Music, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, NWOBHM, satanic, the world the flesh the devil
-
July 11, 2011 by hhbrady
As a rule, it’s children, the developmentally-disabled, and the senile that make us uneasy. See… we can’t readily predict what …
Continue reading
Category: Massive Words: books
|
Tags: Arts, Death on Credit, French language, journey to the end of the night, Louis-Ferdinand Celine
-
May 30, 2011 by hhbrady
Feel free to mock me, but I collect internet photos of both jazz and metal musicians– photos that make the …
Continue reading
Category: Metal
|
Tags: Arts, Grindcore, Music, Pig Destroyer, Scott Hull
-
May 7, 2011 by hhbrady
Since these are from the Vault: Let’s Get To It! “Bee Vamp,” sounds like the theme to The Price is …
Continue reading
Category: Album Review, Jazz
|
Tags: Album review, Arts, bass clarinet, Booker Little, Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Five Spot, Jazz, Live at the Five Spot, Music, Vol. 1, vol. 2, Winds
-
April 30, 2011 by hhbrady
This is… gonzo journalism! This is… method reviewing! Come on, Strasberg and Stanislavski, let’s rev up my affective (race?) memory and …
Continue reading
Category: Album Review, Metal
|
Tags: Album review, Amon Amarth, Arts, Death metal, Manowar, Mead, Metal Blade Records, Music, Norse mythology, Sweden, Twilight of the Thunder God, Viking, viking metal, War of the Gods
-
April 19, 2011 by hhbrady
[Initially micro-reviewed by me here and here.] So, let’s get right to it: Crowbar’s older, bigger, dumber brother. (Hanging out with …
Continue reading
Category: Album Review, Metal
|
Tags: Album review, Arts, Bitches Brew, Cecil Taylor, Chuck Biscuits, Clandestine Abuse, Doom, drone, guitar, heavy metal, Intronaut, Jack Johnson, Jazz, John Mclaughlin, Metal, Miles Davis, Music, Northless, Pharoah Sanders, Roscoe Mitchell, Sludge, Stoner, Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery
-
April 16, 2011 by hhbrady
So. I’ve played guitar for just about 25 years. I’ve played woodwind instruments for 30. In all my decades of …
Continue reading
Category: Metal, Riff of the Day
|
Tags: Arts, cane trader, Centurions Ghost, Conan, Doom, guitar, guitar tone, Music, Ostinato, satsumo, Seven Foot Spleen, Sloath, Sludge, stoner rock, Stringed, The Devil and the Sea, Wizardrone
-
April 3, 2011 by hhbrady
Perhaps one of the true tests of the depth of a record is if it piques your interest beyond the …
Continue reading
Category: Interview, Metal
|
Tags: ambient, Arts, Boston, Doom, drone, heavy metal, helmet, hypersleep, interview, Metal, Music, Old Man Gloom, science fiction, Sludge, VYGR
-
March 26, 2011 by hhbrady
Your exorcised better half and/or shadow self rasping through a poetry slam, complete with Nepenthe’d-to-the-eyeballs backing band– drums, bass. Beatnik …
Continue reading
Category: Album Review, Metal, Microreview
|
Tags: Album review, ambient, Arts, black metal, Doom, experimental, Horseback, Metal, Poetry, Poetry slam, Psychedelic, Sludge, The Invisible Mountain