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Video: Man or Astro-man?
One of our readers (thanks Rivers!) just threw us a link to some pretty fantastical footage from the recent return from cryogenic storage by Man or Astro-man at Bottletree. Have a look-see, it’s pretty freakazoid. I’m talking shiny silver jumpsuits, fire, and lightning machines here.
Set List: Contra Release Party
Though I arrived at Bottletree too late to score an autographed poster, and the free tickets never materialized, I managed to walk out of there with a bunch of stickers and a free cd with some remixes on it. If anyone wants a sticker leave a comment on this post, and we’ll throw one your [...]
Torche Bringing Happy Metal To Bottletree
Torche is an anomaly. Though the band formed in the underground drone and doom metal scene, they have forged their own unique and interesting path ever since. Many of their contemporaries choose to concentrate on the dark and depressing sides of existence – you know the drill: death, destruction and despair. Listen to just one Torche [...]
R.I.P. Barry Beckett
My coworker, friend, and longtime Muscle Shoals music lover, David Griner, wrote an inspiring post honoring the life of the recently departed Alabama legend, Barry Beckett. You can find it here. The NY Times documented the news here and had this to say: Barry Beckett, an Alabama-born keyboardist who helped create the distinctly Southern amalgamation [...]
City Stages asks the city for a bailout
UPDATE: The bailout just passed city council by a margin of 4-2-1. Also, the Weekly reminds us that “Man, Sloss Furnaces is getting screwed today. City Stages bailout came from their appropriation, as did funds for new community info flyers.” Wow. What do you guys think? Sound off in the comments. In the words of [...]
Video: All Girl Revue
Here’s some footage from each band at last night’s female extravaganza. Happy consuming: Abram & Sarah The Havens Imaginary Planes Dead Fingers
//WEEKENDER: Isis/Pelican/Tombs @ Bottletree
I hate to tell you this Birmingham, but Isis is a metal band. They’re hellishly heavy and dark as a month of midnights. And their show at the Bottletree last weekend was a thing of beauty…a delirious vision of delightful slaughter. As they pounded out doom tune after doom tune, I couldn’t help but think [...]
//WEEKNIGHTER: Coldplay does Birmingham
Arik Sokol’s done it again, with some STELLAR shots of Chris Martin & company this past Monday night.
BHAM.FM Interview with Isis, plus their Alabama connection is revealed
I hate to break it to you Birmingham, but Isis is not a metal band. Sure, metal fans around the world love them, they get tons of coverage in the metal media and they have shared stages with some of metal’s biggest bands. But, Isis’ sound is so unique, experimental and atmospheric; I don’t see [...]
//WEEKNIGHTER_TVontheRADIO
Man. I’m trying to write this without just repeating “IT WAS EFFING AMAZING” over and over. But it was. TV on the Radio is not a band I can easily describe or classify. I heard “Return to Cookie Mountain a couple of years ago and used it mainly as background music at work. It was [...]
