DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist
Freeze
Label: Pillage Roadshow
Release Date: 05/16/06

The Freeze DVD is here and it is crazy! DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist and four turntables! Six years since the show and people are still talking, see what all the fuss is […]

William Parker Long Hidden: The Olmec Series
Label:Aum Fidelity
Release Date: 03/14/06

William Parker’s “Long Hidden: The Olmec Series” is an album exploring the Musical and Cultural similarities between the West African Manding and Central
American Olmec people. William’s “long abiding interest in and study of the continental connection” between the two peoples manifests itself musically in three forms. […]

The MelvinsHoudini Live 2005: A Live History of Gluttony and Lust
Label: Ipecac
Release Date: 05/16/06

History:
All Tomorrow’s Parties created the series “Don’t Look Back” in the attempt to capture awesome and influential bands playing their “best” albums note for note. 2005 saw The Stooges playing all of Fun House, and The Dirty Three (with special guest pianist, […]

Russian Circles
Enter
Label: Flameshovel Records
Release Date: 05/16/06

I always get hyped when a record starts out with eerie pianos- you can’t go wrong with haunting pianos. It always works best when that simple piano melody gets faster and louder until it is joined […]

OvO
Miastenia
Label: Load
Release Date: 04/18/06

I feel so helpless when trying to review a noise/experimental Album. In attempt to explain sounds I’ve never heard before, with words I’ve never used before, I just end up getting frustrated. I find the only way around this quagmire is to state the facts and describe what I hear best, […]

Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom
Label: Ipecac
Release Date: 05/30/06

Mike Patton can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants and however he wants. On Peeping Tom, Mike pulls off collaborations with Bebel Gilberto, Kid Koala, Kool Keith, Anticon’s Doseone, Massive Attack and Norah […]

Boris
Pink
Label: Southern LordRelease Date: 05/16/06

Boris are quickly becoming one of those artists who
release a new album, what seems like every other
month. In 2005 alone, they released 4+ albums. If a
band is making consistently awesome and different
music, this is good thing. And Boris […]

Vetiver
To Find Me Gone
Label: DiCristina
Release Date: 05/23/06

I love Vetiver the way that I love swimming in rivers or drinking workingman’s beer in my backyard at sundown with my closest friends and listening to them tell inappropriate jokes in close proximity to the […]

Zombi
Surface to Air
Label: Relapse
Release Date: 05/02/06

What I knew about Zombi before listening to their
newest album, Surface To Air, was that they did some
sort of ambient band, on a metal label…. and that’s
it. I had heard and read many good things, but in […]

OM
Confernece of the Birds
Label: Holy Mountain
Release Date: 04/17/06

Om is Al Cisneros (Bass Vocals) and Chris Haikus
(Drums) of the Doom band Sleep. Just a year after
their Debut Album “Variations on a Theme, They have
come back with their second album Conference of Birds,
which like […]