Lair of the Asp

These guys are very clever, I'm surprised no one has thought of this before... Eisbrecher has decided to make a statement for its fans and for music consumers in general and is releasing their album ("Eisbrecher") including a bonus DVD with 2 blank CD-Rs which have the same label as the CD itself. Alexx Wesselsky (singer and head of the group): "We are of the opinion that the music buyers are criminalized enough and have been made responsible for the wretched state in the music industry. We are giving them the chance to make 2 legal copies for private use with 'official blanks'. It can't always be that the end users have to take the blame for something that international corporations have arranged with their artist-burning methods." Eisbrecher's record label ZYX Music supports this action and will deliver the first 5000 albums of the group with 2 blanks each. Eisbrecher are Alexx Wesselsky (lyrics/vocals) and Noel Pix (composition/keyboar

A review on releasemagazine.net of the new Creatures album "Hai!" It's always great to see that Souixie and Budgie are still knocking out good music. And Taiko drums to boot, I'm always excited to hear big drums... Exploding from the primal result of a collaboration with one of Japan's premier Taiko drummers, Leonard Ito, The Creatures bless us with their fourth studio release, the viciously engaging "Hai!". This album carries on in the tradition of their debut "Feast" which was released back in 1983. Spontaneous with a vengeance and blistering with delirious arrangements, Siouxsie and Budgie hit the mark and pass with flying colours. The ingredients to this hellbent offering are quite simply her voice and a percussive backbone which is steely in its resilience, nuanced with the years of working together and re-born in the fires of a collaboration which was a long time in coming. The rumbling opening of "Say Yes!" ushers us i

I'm going to see Fiction 8 tonight at the Gothic theater in Englewood. I've been working on a remix of their song "Stranger in my Skin" for the last month or so. Here is a recent interview of them for a look into what they are about... "Forever, Neverafter" is your second album release. What does it feel like to hold the finished album in your hands? Michael: This one was particularly gratifying. We spent almost 3 years on this album, trying to exorcise the demons and it feels wonderful to finally be able to lay this stuff to rest. Steven: It's definitely a relief to get this one finished. It was probably the most personal release we have done, and a lot of ourselves are ingrained in it. First of all tell us something about yourselves? What was the reason for founding Fiction 8? Michael: For me, I always wanted to produce music. I was really inspired by Dave , Ogilvie, Alex Sadkin, Roli Mossiman, Gavin MacKillop ... basically pro

From The Cure Website... COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL RETURNS TO INDIO, CA FOR FIFTH YEAR SATURDAY, MAY 1 AND SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2004 Headlining performances from Radiohead on Saturday and The Cure on Sunday plus performances from more than 60 acts including The Pixies, Kraftwerk and The Flaming Lips Described as "The Best American Festival" (Rolling Stone), "probably the best festival in the world" (England's NME) and "the most significant annual pop event in the country" (Los Angeles Times), the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival returns for its fifth year to Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA Saturday, May 1 and Sunday, May 2. An unparalleled cutting-edge musicalexperience in a peaceful and breathtakingly beautiful setting that last yearattracted 68,000 music fans, the Goldenvoice-promoted extravaganza is beingheadlined by Radiohead (Saturday) and The Cure (Sunday) and will include performances from The Pixies,

I went and got the new Crystal Method CD "Legion of Boom" today and found myself amazed at how much of it sounded like their songs of yesteryear, but there is still some quality songs on there and the production is top notch, I've seen them twice live once when no one knew who they were and were just trying to get the word out about their new "Vegas" CD and once when they came back the same tour after "Busy Child" was on every soundtrack imaginable, both times were good, but it certainly was better when hardly anyone else was there. And then I happened to see this article and it made me think that the return of the big beat sound is probably being launched again, but this time it won't have much of an impact or at least not like it did 8 or 10 years ago, hopefully I'll be wrong, but I doubt it... The Prodigy have revealed details of their first studio album since 1997's The Fat of the Land. The band says it sounds "sexier a

Ok, so I'm finally putting up a link to Ride Flame's Road of Entities Blog and I thought this was a pretty interesting picture as well. She's been super cool and we're currently working getting something together using her poetry read by her and music by me, her voice is great(she comes from the darkest heart of England as she puts it) and the words she has are fantastic and intense. Stay tuned for more as it developes...

The posting of my cohosting with Zoya on the Remission show on KVCU is up now. At this page you can also see other past set lists and pictures of other guests including Boyd Rice , who was on a couple weeks before me and such local favorites as Deviant , The Siren Project , and Machinegun Symphony . This is my set list for show I appeared on, which happened on Dec. 26th: Collide - Falling Up (Egypt Mix) Danielle Dax - Tomorrow Never Knows Android Lust - In The Arms of the Heretic Invisible Asps - A Is For Asps Invisible Asps - Mancun Delerium - After All (Invisible Asps Remix) Tristraum - Shiver (Invisible Asps Remix) Invisible Asps - Pandemic Invisible Asps - Darken My Door Invisible Asps - You Fell Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Love grove Die Marionette - The Puppet Front Line Assembly - The Blade Gary Numan - Rip Love Spirals Downwards - By Your Side Hate Dept. - Release IT Otto's Daughter - Stuck Inside Your World Sunshine Blind - No One The

Another boutique label by a record producer, John Fryer's Something To Listen To record label , luckily I actually really like a bunch of the bands he's worked with in the past and if he can get more quality music out to the public more power to him. 'Something To Listen To' is the name of a new label set up by noone else than John Fryer who produced bands suchs Fad Gadget, NIN, Yazoo, The Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Depeche Mode, Die Krupps, Lush, Wire, Laibach, Fields Of The Nephelim and many more. The UK based label so far signed the following bands: Esoterica, Sundealers, Audiodummi, Plastic Toys, Living With Eating Disorder, Kitty Stockings, Prince Jellyfish, Red Kid and Licky. The first releases should be released this very month. Starting out at Blackwing Studio in London, John’s early career saw him working with several wellknown 4 A.D. and Mute artists. He later on went on to enjoy massive success in modern rock with the likes of Stabbing Westward, H