Halloween and Haunted House music maestros Midnight Syndicate put their own twist on classic carols blended with new, original material. It’s a perfect blend of dark, whimsical, and hauntingly beautiful atmosphere for the other holiday season! From the liner notes: As fierce winter winds cut across the frozen landscape, a welcoming golden glow beckons from the …
Disregarding all the wordiness and adjectives that can be heaped like a pile of horse dung at Disneyland upon great, timeless albums, the importance of this record can perhaps be more suitably measured by the number of people who remember the first time they heard it. 13 Songs (a combination of the Fugazi and Margin Walker EPs) is …
Beyond the graveyard at the edge of town, far from any living soul, an old Gothic mansion looms among the withered vines and trees. The ancient doors creak slowly open and ghostly whispers echo from the shadows, beckoning you inside. Welcome to Grimstone Manor, where dark secrets lie in wait for those who dare to explore its unhallowed …
Join over 100,000 singers who use Voice Lessons To Go to warm-up and train to! Voice Lessons To Go is a great way to get going on your singing voice. Vocalize and Breath is the first of Ariella Vaccarino’s successful four volume series. Learning to sing is about much more than singing a song. Proper warm-ups, breathing, …
1988-92 was a time of two primary radical shifts in Swans’ general musical approach-learning new ways to work and ignoring the preconceptions dogging them as a result of their early extremism. The music on Various Failures ranges from delicate, acoustic ballads with accompanying strings to almost bombastic Phil Spector-influenced arrangements, to cinematic sound collages with found vocal narrations, …
TAKING BACK SUNDAY’s musical attributes & determination have inspired one of the most loyal & devoted audiences in rock today. Critical acclaim from the music press was quickly followed by features in Rolling Stone, Spin, Alternative Press & Revolver. The band redefined the rock sub-genre inevitably referred to as “emo,” delivering passionate dual vocals & a twin …
It’s not often that you stumble across a songwriter whose lyrics both sound and read like poetry. When those lyrics are set to music that balances burning indignation with lilting tenderness, and delivered in a voice imbued with the spiritual passion and yearning of gospel and the blues, you figure you’ve chanced upon something special. And so it …
Emotional struggle is central to Imagine Dragons’ ethos. From the beginning it’s been the group’s goal to take the pain they’ve each experienced in life and spin it into something redemptive and uplifting. That transformation of emotional pain into art is what drives them as people and it’s also what inspired their first hit. I wrote It’s Time …
London-based four-piece Wolf Alice will release their debut album entitled My Love Is Cool on June 23rdvia Dirty Hit / RCA Records. Produced by Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Black Keys), My Love Is Cool is a remarkable leap forward from the band’s EP Creature Songs, released last year. Having already captured critical acclaim on their track and …
Everything about Tool’s fourth album (2001) is an experience, starting with the packaging, which consists of liner credits printed on a translucent plastic sleeve over the CD and a booklet that layers anatomical representations atop one another–the first page pictures musculature and blood vessels; the next, bones; the third, internal organs; and so on. It’s worth describing the …