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Seminal noise rock duo Lightning Bolt—bassist Brian Gibson and drummer Brian Chippendale—play their bone-crunching live shows on the floor of whatever venue is crazy enough to allow it, using only volume to push back the churning crowd of future tinnitus patients that surrounds them. Fueled by Gibson’s two refrigerator-sized speaker cabs pumping out over three thousand watts of distorted bass alongside Chippendale’s drumstick-shattering rhythms, Lightning Bolt’s elusive concerts—frequently announced only days or hours in advance?...
...We’re pretty much on a break I would say,” commented the band’s bassist, Jake L. Mazur-Warren, who started at Skidmore this fall...
...rough thickets of musical history, introducing them to near-forgotten artists like the Flamin’ Groovies and the Only Ones. They tell jokes, they like holidays, they’ve even got a funny, pudgy friend who won’t stop coming over (James McNew, faithful bassist of 17 years). Entering the swells of middle age, Hoboken, N.J.’s finest trio finds itself being pulled in disparate directions. “Popular Songs,” like Yo La Tengo’s last album—the colorful, horn-filled 2006 pastiche...
...produce a single masterpiece—namely 1987’s “You’re Living All Over Me,”—and languish into its prescribed stoner-rock loveseat. The alleged indignity with which the original lineup dispersed (Mascis reportedly fired bassist Barlow without ever actually telling Barlow after “Bug” in 1988; Barlow would find renewed underground success with his Sebadoh and Folk Implosion projects) made a true reunion unlikely. That’s probably what made their reunion and resurgence—marked by the astounding...
...High the Moon' had terrific verve," said Bill Wyman, long the Rolling Stones' bassist, "proof at last that pop could provide stylish, instrumental inventiveness." So it's instructive to listen closely to "How High the Moon" - not a chore, since the song provides as much musical exhilaration now as it did when it was released, in March 1951. It encapsulates the lithe popular art of all those Les and Mary singles - the density and clarity, the distinctiveness of his guitar voice and her intimate vocal instrument, the heart and the fun. It's a number that expresses the choral lilt...