ugh doom

[Greenfuz]

yeah it's only cool if you mute the video really


it's like an evil satan worshiping version of those old shitty 60s "live" tv performances

[sonidero]

yeah it's only cool if you mute the video really


it's like an evil satan worshiping version of those old shitty 60s "live" tv performances

I agree with all those words...

Only in Europe will that shit fly... They take Eurovision REALLY SERIOUSLY!!!

[dubkitty]

no, i'm talking about Ghost the rock band from Japan whose lead guitarist is Michio Kurihara, who's recorded with Boris, toured the US with Yo La Tengo, and is a member of Ghost and White Heaven. he even parts his hair on the same side.

Kurihara:



Cipollina:

[DarkAxel]

the vocals remind me of Ulver

btw idk about the flatness, the vocals don't bother me at all, I quite like them... but i AM european

[sonidero]

i AM european

I know, you and Goroth have the MOST EUROMETAL taste's on ILF, maybe Bassus too but he plays Ice Troll Music so it's a lil different...

[dubkitty]

there's an utterly adorable story from the YLT tour on which Kurihara was an auxiliary/guest player. when they played Cleveland they decided to visit the R&R Hall of Fame. as fate would have it the HOF was having an exhibit on the 60s San Francisco bands for which the first exhibit was Cipollina's rather remarkable early QMS amp stacks:



Kurihara reacted to this as if he'd found the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. he was apparently heartbroken when the HOF staff, as is their policy, wouldn't let Ira take a photo of him standing next to John's setup.

[sonidero]

Hippies...

[Greenfuz]

I love his rig so much

those horns

[dubkitty]

he did all the customization of the gear and his guitars himself.

fun rock trivia: John's brother Mario was the bassist for Huey Lewis and the News.

[ryan summit]

if you havent spent a day
watching screaming lord sutch videos
you havent lived at all
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2ZsWENob1s[/youtube]
totally not afraid to gross out the chicks

[Gearmond]

LMAO I REMEMBER THAT AMP STACK WHEN I WENT THERE

that funeral doom stuff just sounds like pure cheese to me. like... it sounds like the music you would make as a parody for doomy metal bands. im sorry.

I don't know what I like anymore


but I do feel like electronic music is kind of a new frontier though, still not fully explored. most electronic music sucks

crystal castles did something kinda cool with it

I dunno

uh... im just gonna chime in and say CC are bland bullshit compared to electronic music, and hell just electronic music form the first 20 years of electronic music-as-we-know-it. but in the past like 10 or so years electronic music has been exploding with creativity, even within hella restrictive genres and idioms like house and trap. that Sophie act i mentioned before is legit next level.

[D.o.S.]

Michio Kurihara is awesome. Having seen him live with Boris, he's a great, expressive, and inventive player in that psych-rock-noise bit that is so awesome.

Also, LOL at electronic music 'exploding with creativity' in the last ten years. The same thing that's happened to guitar-based music has happened to electronic, where anything that's cool and creative has been almost immediately co-opted and rehashed ad nauseum.

[sonidero]

Grammy award-winning singer Lauren Hill has been ordered by a judge to “undergo counseling because of her conspiracy theories.” What was her conspiracy theory? That the music industry oppresses people with actual talent in favor of pumping out mindless nonsense.

Yesterday Hill was sentenced to 3 months in jail followed by three months’ home confinement after failing to pay a tax bill because she had withdrawn from society following threats to her family.

In June last year, Hill posted a diatribe to her Tumblr account complaining of how the music industry is “manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex.”

As we’ve highlighted numerous times in the past, other recording artists have made it clear that anyone who doesn’t conform to the strict demands of the music industry or even, as Nicole Scherzinger recently remarked, sell their soul to satan, tends to find success hard to maintain in an industry that punishes individuals who dare to speak their mind.

In numerous performances and speeches over the last few years, Hill has attempted to warn young people about how “pop culture cannibalism” and the deliberate reductionism of art and music is damaging a whole generation and turning them into passive, unthinking consumers – destroying inspiration and true creativity in the name of profit.

The Judge’s order that Hill undergo what amounts to brainwashing and re-education simply for publicly proclaiming the fact that the music industry is designed to strangle true talent while promoting amoral, vacuous, mindless, turgid drivel, is part of the increasing trend towards labeling common sense as a mental illness if it goes against the establishment grain in any way.

[RR Bigman]

promoting amoral...

I should have gotten the hint after "selling your soul to satan" but I thought maybe it was just colorful imagery. Guess not

[Greenfuz]

LMAO I REMEMBER THAT AMP STACK WHEN I WENT THERE

that funeral doom stuff just sounds like pure cheese to me. like... it sounds like the music you would make as a parody for doomy metal bands. im sorry.

I don't know what I like anymore


but I do feel like electronic music is kind of a new frontier though, still not fully explored. most electronic music sucks

crystal castles did something kinda cool with it

I dunno

uh... im just gonna chime in and say CC are bland bullshit compared to electronic music, and hell just electronic music form the first 20 years of electronic music-as-we-know-it. but in the past like 10 or so years electronic music has been exploding with creativity, even within hella restrictive genres and idioms like house and trap. that Sophie act i mentioned before is legit next level.

no but the weird autotuney vocals and the anger

most electronic music is just instrumental stuff

but they sorta incorporated punk into it