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...death have made him a cult hero, while his songs - or one of his songs - have turned him into TV's hottest sound-track artist, the bard of the Very Special Episode. The cult came first, and it feeds off more than one tragedy. Buckley's father, '70s folk singer Tim Buckley, abandoned his mother, pianist Mary Guibert, before Jeff was born, and father and son ended up meeting just once, in 1975, two months before the elder Buckley died of a heroin overdose at age 28. Jeff never spoke kindly of his dad, but he did inherit...
...altogether easy to define; there are elements of Built to Spill, U2 (in the soaring guitar riffs), various pop-punk bands, and even 3 Doors Down. That is to say, SLD favor controlled but nonetheless ragged guitar sounds, driving drums (deceptively light at times), simple bass lines and an singer frequently sounding at his wits end. If any of this sounds unappealing, you probably won’t like this album: SLD has identified their sound and hardly stray from it. There is a certain majesty, a more primal musical essence in some of their more carefully-written choruses...
...sprawling psychedelic trance-noise-rock performances. This V8rdoms-esque record, though officially released with the moniker Boredoms, features their godfather, Eye Yamatsuka (a.k.a. Eye Yamantaka, or just eYe, best known for his legendarily abrasive/invasive noise band Hanatarash, translated, “the snot-nosed”), drummer and singer Yoshimi Yokota (a.k.a. Yoshimi P-We, the screeching, screaming Yoshimi featured on the Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 2”), and two additional drummers...
...every pound of the piano and the perfection of the multi-talented Larry Campbell (guitar, cittern and pedal steel), bassist Tony Garnier and lead guitarist Stu Kimbell demonstrated both a well-rehearsed tour and the musicians’ passion for absolute effort in their performance. The band and singer interacted so well on stage, with virtually no eye contact or communication with the audience, it was as if the 3500 ticket holders had been privileged to walk into a jam session of master musicians...
...Live at Leeds or The Allman Brothers quintessential Live at the Fillmore East. Following in this storied tradition is Neko Case’s latest release, The Tigers Have Spoken, an album that manages to be quite captivating even given its paltry length. Case, also the singer for the renowned indie band The New Pornographers, had not released an album since Blacklisted in 2002. This is also her first album on the Anti label, following her departure from Bloodshot Records...