Aloud Exile Lemon Merchant Records www.allthingsaloud.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie What to make of Aloud? Hmm…it’s not your everyday pop-rock-hip/hop-emo-nu-metal CD but a horse of an entirely different color. More oriented toward hippie groovin’, folkified, laid back mellowness, Exile, their newest release has some interesting routes less traveled in the average music of today. Aloud consists of two principals: Jen […]
Indie Takeover: One CD and Two seven-inchers
Check this pretty lady out… Malanna Monroe
Malanna Monroe A Musical Reflection of Your Light Self Released, 2010 myspace.com/malanna Reviewed by Kent Manthie Hailing from Tennessee, USA, but with stops along the way in Detroit and Louisiana. Her new CD, a refreshing little DIY thing called A Musical Reflection of Your Light, is out now and a generous sampling of some tunes from it are on her […]
Two new releases from Silber Records!
The Wet Teens Let it Pee Silber Records www.silbermedia.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie Ahh…to be a carefree teenager again: invincible, immortal, no responsibilities save getting good grades scoring a bitchin’ ride. On a slight detour from the average Silber Records CD, which is usually more experimental-driven, drone-noise-ambient-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink types of tinkering and toying with. The Wet Teens’ new CD, Let it […]
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The Experiments What Kind of Animal Review by Sean Ross The Experiments latest and free album What Kind of Animal quickly asserts itself as pop-punk teeming with classic sounds familiar to the tortured underage urban wanderers of the late seventies and early eighties—only, much tighter and impressive, more now. Songs are replete with stylized guitar punctuations, absurdly succinct and punchy […]
Three more new CDs that will rock your world!
New Concept Stomp! www.new-concept.net Esox Music www.esoxpop.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie There’s a new band in town, just off the Lufthansa jetliner from Germany: New Concept sound like they just stepped out of a time warp from a club in what was then West Berlin, circa 1982. Maybe the members were catching a show by Ultravox, Cabaret Voltaire or Spandau […]
Brand New of Montreal CD – just out!!!
Of Montreal False Priest Polyvinyl Records, 2010 Reviewed by Kent Manthie What’s in a name? Plenty, if you’re Kevin Barnes. False Priest is his tenth blissful CD, released under the moniker of Montreal. Unfortunately, I was a Johnny-Come-Lately when it came to discovering this project, but then again, they hardly ever come out to So-Cal – I first reviewed them […]
Moodring shines on debut CD for Silber Media!
Moodring Scared of Ferret Silber Records www.silbermedia.com Review by Kent Manthie On their Silber Records debut CD, Scared of Ferret, Moodring is set free to do anything (and everything) they want. And they certainly go to town on this disc. It’s so rich and bountiful in its layers of sounds – mostly “effects”, a “kaos pad” as well as “hand […]
Calling all Neil Young fans…
[Book Review] Neil Young, Long May You Run: An Illustrated History By Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff Voyageur Press Minneapolis, 2010, hardcover book review by Kent Manthie Into his fifth decade as an uncompromising, unpredictable and awe-inspiring songwriter Neil Young has touched the hearts and minds of many types of people: in other words, there’s no particular demographic for who […]