I made some changes to The Square recently and I’ve already seen that some of you have noticed. I added a subscription page that you can find in the top navigation bar. Besides your basic feed catchers, you can also subscribe via Email!
We will be putting up a review of Hot Chip’s new album, Made in the Dark, either today or tomorrow in light of the upcoming U.S. shows in New York City and Los Angeles. If you’re going to the NYC gig, we’ll see you there.
And finally, Cracked.com recently produced one of the best post themes I’ve seen in awhile. The theme, “Six Musicians with Pasts They Hope You’ll Forget”. Those six musicians are, Tori Amos, Alice in Chains, Alanis Morissette, Evanescence, Pantera and Dr. Dre. The two latter artists are the best but for me, Pantera’s past takes the cake. In my awkward junior high days, I was into a good amount of metal groups like Pantera, Sepultura, who I just learned maybe coming out with a new album in 2008 despite the fact that no Cavelera family member is in the band. Chaos A.D. still holds as the best ever Sepultura album in my book. And of course, Metallica. To top off the awkwardness, I was also into Bob Marley. What a confused young boy I was.
As you will read, Pantera’s past includes a lot of hair, a lot of leopard shirts (so far, it’s probably not all that shocking) but wait, then there was this:
“I wanna feel you in my arms
I wanna love you til the emptiness is gone
Take my hand
Tonite could be the nite
Understand my heart is cryin’
Oooooooooh, forever tonite”
And this…
Priceless.
And now for one of my all time favorite Pantera tracks, the song that helped put the movie Tales from the Crypt: Demon Night into my classics category, and one of the greatest heavy metal ballads of all time, “Cemetery Gates” -
Every year there seems to be a new theme that appears in band names (i.e. wolf, diamonds or just adding a ! to your name). This post involves a classic theme that has been with us since the early days of rock n’ roll, “Black”.
Over the past few weeks I’ve seen some remarkable films. One rockumentary, Heima and two indie drama / thrillers, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood. I’ve also been listening to the soundtrack for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which was composed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis of the Bad Seeds. The films combined with the audio effects of Cave and Ellis’s masterpiece has caused a deep sense of joy, remorse and sorrow for humanity as a whole.
Here is the first installment of my On Sale! weekly post. Of course this post is specifically geared to Bostonians but I will also provide the the full tour date for each band I list so that if you see them playing in your town, and you know they go on sale in Boston on a certain date, then you can be sure they’re going on sale either on or around the same date.