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Nights With a blend of shoegaze and slender psychedelic leanings, this Cleveland quartet weaves a gentle dreamscape with waves of guitar drone. It makes a fitting bed for the angular leads and airy vocal — though it’s not without heavier parts. All these movements and shifts carry the listener through a tumbling and rolling sea of lyrics constructed from half-forgotten daydreams, like the Black Angels running down an old set list from Rainer Maria. Has the potential to dazzle the less jaded, or maybe vice versa. Volcano Fortress These cats from Cleveland play some pretty frantic indi...
Album Name: We Own The Sun Composer: The Heights Band Record Label: None (n/a) Akron's The Heights Band play a grungy stoner rock through and through. Led Zepplin influenced guitar riffs drone through bluesly wailing vocals. Tempo changes occur with wild abandon as new riffs topple predecessors. Despite the massive tones the band manages to steer clear of well-worn trappings of bands in the genre, opting to let classic rock riffs and tasteful solos work as bridges. Just as you feel like you have a grip on what the band is about with the first two tracks in the record, they go into ...
McGuire has been kicking around the music scene for a while now and is pretty well-regarded for his drone and ambient work — namely with his other band, Emeralds, which also features Cleveland heavy hitter Sam Goldberg. “Get Lost” finds McGuire on familiar ground, with ambient loops and effect-heavy guitar melodies. While he does stay true to the sound that he’s known for on this new record, it’s much more focused then previous releases. For fans of the rising chill-wave genre, this record will definitely please. It’s hard to say if the record has more of a zoned-out or sucke...
Any modern hipster who thinks that they have it made would have been delighted to brag about going to see the Black Angels for free at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus. They would have combed their bangs in their face, worn a tight zip-up hoodie with skinny jeans and pranced in, holding hands with their girlfriend talking about the latest trends in art and stoner rock. I, on the other hand, secured my tickets with the booking agent along with a photo pass for my sister’s boyfriend and got ready to be as judgmental yet open-minded as I could. I have gotten pretty into the Black Angel...
Black Country Communion S/T Supergroups can be a really bad idea sometimes. You get a lot of egos involved and the songs go to shit. Black Country Communion is an exception. The group, consisting of Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Trapeze), Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin, Foreigner), Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater) and blues guitarist virtuoso Joe Bonamassa, has compiled a solid selection of 70s rock riff-rola ala Zeppelin, Sabbath, early Aerosmith and a host of other old schoolers. Opening track “Black Country” reeks of Zeppelin. “One Last Soul” is a perfect example of four very...
Ah, there’s nothing like the drone of indie-pop, and this Canadian band, Boats, has it down. Lead singer Mat Klachefsky’s has a voice that is sometimes a unique tone that keeps you interested and listening (think Andrew McMahon of Something Corporate), but more often then I’d hope for, he slips into a tone that makes you think he could be a Weird Al Yankovic cover band. “Drinking the Lake” and “Breakfast, Coffee, Lunch, Internet” are solid songs — the latter being an electronic sort of march. “Summercamp vs. The Fake Moustache Tree” is another highpoint of the album...
When Josh Homme of QOTSA says that the Truckfighters are "the best band that ever existed," you should listen. In a strange twist this Swedish band who might be playing black this or death that instead found the big, fuzzy drone of stoner rock and they are great at it. Let band members Ozo, Dango and Pezo rock you out. Local heavyweights Forged in Flame and others open. ...
Trouble Books and Mark McGuire, “Trouble Books and Mark McGuire” Mark McGuire of Emeralds fame has teamed up with Akron husband-and-wife synth duo Trouble Books to release a record that seamlessly blends both groups’ well-known styles. Often with collaborations of this type, one artist’s style predominates the mix. This makes for a record that feels less like a collective thought and more like a directive handed down from one band to the other: play this, don’t play that, sing here and don’t sing there. However, this is hardly the case with the self-titled record. Throug...
Kent-based band Mhmm consists of singer-guitarist Kristen Ward, bassist-guitarist Zachary Ritterspach and drummer Martin Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was previously a DJ in the duo White Skulls, which performed as a part of the group Sharks After Dark at The Kent Stage’s Alley Disco, and Ritterspach played with Astronauts (Get All The Tang They Want), a band he described as “weird ambient-drone-noise music.” Fitzgerald and Ritterspach began playing together as a two-piece in fall 2010. Though Fitzgerald used to play in Kent State’s percussion band, this was his first time behind the dr...
Is it just me, or are about 80 percent of recent games first-person shooters? And for every must-play (“Killzone3”, “Black Ops”), there are three that’ll make you cry yourself to sleep just trying to forget them (“Goldeneye 007” for the Wii). Kaos Studio’s “Homefront” falls somewhere in between. Great storyline and fun set pieces, but an incredibly short single-player campaign and unpolished gameplay leave this much-hyped title fighting for air in the overcrowded FPS marketplace. “Homefront”, written by John Milius (“Red Dawn”, “Apocalypse Now”), starts of...
