When the group, fronted by Tool founder Maynard James Keenan, told the world they were back earlier this month, they left out some crucial details about the planned tour – The WHEN. The band – Keenan, Josh Freese, Billy Howerdel, James Iha and Matt McJunkins – plans multiple stops at each of five venues, with [...]
Desert Bloom 3 Heavy On the Tunes
September 20, 2010 By 3 Comments
In the mix of sight and sound it was the music that took center stage Friday at the third creative explosion of painting and tunes at Gangplank. From hip-hop to techno to surf, Desert Bloom 3 rocked the mothership. All the while, 10 artists focused on getting their visions on canvas, ready in time for [...]
CD Review: Through Yourself & Back Again by Thriving Ivory
September 14, 2010 By 5 Comments
THE BAND Vocals Clayton Stroope Songwriter / Keyboardist Scott Jason Guitarist Drew Cribley Drummer Paul Niedermier THE SONGS Love Alone On Your Side Some Kind of Home Where We Belong While The Candle Still Burns Moonlight Cobwebs Run Motorcade (So Long, So Long) Come November Moonlight (acoustic)
Single Review: “Stuttering” by Fefe Dobson
September 14, 2010 By 2 Comments
Sometimes a singer’s weak efforts make me wonder why they don’t try harder when they clearly have the ability. Fefe Dobson is a singer who’s largely existed under the radar, yet she has a hard edge to her voice and music that’s appealing. Sometimes. Though working under the unfortunate name, Fefe (which I of course [...]
CD Review: Red Light Rabbit by The Quick and Easy Boys
September 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Trio touring rabidly now 9/15/10 – 8×10 w/ The Bridge – Baltimore, MD 9/16/10 – The Saint – Asbury Park 9/17/10 – Beatniks w/ Ten Foot Polecats – Worcester, MA 9/18/10 – Triumph Brewing – New Hope, PA 9/19/10 – Larry’s – Danbury, CT 9/20/10 – Rock Shop – Brooklyn, NY 9/21/10 – Bug Jar [...]
Perfect Circle Announces Dates For Mini-Tour
September 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
With Maynard James Keenan it’s not clear anything ever ends, so let’s not call this a reunion of what is really just one other project on the pile. Regardless of nomenclature, fans of the Tool frontman will be ecstatic to know that Perfect Circle is touring, according to Consequence of Sound and other sources. Perhaps [...]
Long Snake Moans
September 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
Sporadically, SoundLust will highlight a quote seen around the Web. The following comes from an anonymous commenter at Boing Boing under an article about gaming being taken seriously (or not) as an art. At least in music there’s a firm line between popular music criticism and “serious” music criticism. From a traditional (or even jazz) [...]
CD Review: Fat Freddy’s Drop – Live At Roundhouse London
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CD Review: Asylum by Disturbed
September 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
Turns out it wasn’t the voices in my head I was hearing – it’s the new Disturbed CD.
SoundLust is on iTunes Ping, Twitter, Facebook
September 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Try us out here (opens up iTunes) because we’re trying it out starting today (It launched yesterday, so). I’m not sure how it will change things, but for a start it would be really nice not to be trapped in iTunes. iTunes has that whole in-browser preview set-up and you’d think things would work there. [...]