Essential Sounds

posted by Robert on Mar 10

Review: Dashboard Confessional’s The Shade of Poison Trees

Dashboard Confessional fans found Dusk and Summer a wee bit disappointing and since then, there is much talk and anticipation about the band’s next album. It has been going around that Chris Carrabba was to gear back to their earlier style, which is more intimate. Indeed, The Shade of Poison Trees does seem to satisfy the standards. However, affectation is still met when the whole collection has been listened to. Nevertheless, producer Don Gilmore gave full trust to Carrabba and the rest of the band and allowed each of their hidden selves to shine through in this album.

“Fever Dreams” and “Where There’s Gold…” is perfect for the fans of the older Dashboard style and shall fulfill their listening pleasure once more as the two songs carry their signature acoustic instrumentation and sing along choruses that resemble those around the campfire. Indeed, Dashboard Confessional has come back home to cheer their loyal listeners yet again.

Click here to go to The Shade of Poison Trees tracklist

For More Info Visit the Dashboard Confessional Site..

posted by Robert on Jan 10

For all your alternative music listening pleasure.

• The Feelies, Crazy Rhythms
  
  
• Violent Femmes, Violent Femmes
  
  
• R.E.M, Murmur
  
  
• Replacements, Let It Be
  
  
• Husker Du, New Day Rising
  
  
• Big Black, The Rich Man’s Eight-Track
  
  
• Throwing Muses, Throwing Muses
  
  
• Dinosaur Jr., You’re Living All Over Me
  
  
• R.E.M., Document
  
  
• 10,000 Maniacs, In My Tribe
  
  
• Ministry, The Land of Rape and Honey
  
  
• Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
  
  
• Michelle Shocked, Short Sharp Shocked
  
  
• Jane’s Addiction, Nothing’s Shocking
  
  
• Soundgarden, Louder than Love
  
  
• Mudhoney, Superfuzz Bigmuff
  
  
• Pixies, Doolittle
  
  
• Nine Inch Nails, Pretty Hate Machine
  
  
• Nirvana, Nevermind
  
  
• Pearl Jam, Ten
  
  
• Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville
  
  
• Pavement, Slanted & Enchanted
  
  
• Beastie Boys, Check Your Head
  
  
• Beck, Mellow Gold

Source:

http://wm03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=19:T578

posted by Robert on Sep 22

Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Known for his ethereal singing voice, Buckley was considered to be one of the most promising artists of his generation after the release of his critically acclaimed 1994 debut album Grace. At the height of his popularity, Buckley drowned during an evening swim in 1997. His work and style continue to be highly regarded by critics and fellow musicians.

via [Wikipedia]

One of my Favorite Song that’s written and sung by Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye and as another post from the blog site And She Writes entitled it as the Best BreakUp Song Ever.. Well, it depends on how you listen it, you may get different meaning and interpretation to it. Anyways I love this song, this song rules.

There are still some good songs that Jeff Buckley wrote and performed but this song really topped the charts for me.

So is there any song in particular that Jeff Buckley wrote that you like?

posted by Robert on Aug 21

We’ve seen the future of Rock & Roll and its name is no longer Bruce Springsteen. The band on stage at New York‘s Ritz sounds like an ailing vacuum cleaner riding roughshod over a madrigal choir. Nonchalantly the musicians step out of the stage-divers’ way as waves of high-intensity drone and retina-piercing white lights wash over the crowd. On the one hand, there exists a fossilizing corpse called classic rock-a four-decade-old mummy grown stale and tired, a once vibrant part of mainstream culture now reduced to background music for car commercials and Olympic events. Imagine a major motion picture in which characters sport faded Mudhoney T-shirts, pull Replacements albums from their record collections, and go hear Alice in Chains, and you’ve scripted Singles, Cameron Crowe’s look at love among the ruins in Seattle (due Sept. 18). Then there’s the Lollapalooza ’92 tour, a seven-band alternative- rock circus stuffed with the Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam.

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Source:

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,311492,00.html

posted by Robert on Jun 14

By the start of the 1990s, the music industry was abuzz about alternative rock’s commercial possibilities and actively courted alternative bands including Dinosaur Jr, Firehouse, and Nirvana.

Nirvana’s surprise success with Nevermind heralded a “new openness to alternative rock” among commercial radio stations, opening doors for heavier alternative bands in particular. Many pop punk bands such as Green Day and The Offspring were also labeled “alternative”. The New York Times declared in 1993, “Alternative rock doesn’t seem so alternative anymore.

Source:

Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. “American Alternative Rock/Post-Punk“. All Music Guide.

Azerrad, Michael. Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. Doubleday, 1994. p. 160 ISBN 0-385-47199-8

Rosen, Craig. “Some See ‘New Openness’ Following Nirvana Success.” Billboard.

posted by Robert on Apr 11

The rise of alternative rock in the USA. From its early underground days where bands like Black Flag drew inspiration from the DIY ethos of punk, Left Of The Dial traces the history of the network of fans, clubs and fanzines that sustained the scene and launched the careers of bands like R.E.M., The Pixies and Husker Du. The film takes a fresh look at the explosion of the Seattle scene, culminating in the success of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ and the tragic loss of Kurt Cobain, an artist whose triumph and tragedy continues to cast an inescapable shadow.Source:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/programmes/left-of-the-dial/

posted by Robert on Feb 23

Women just love men with guitars – well, men who can play them well, at least. And while John Mayer‘s reputation as a ladies’ man (Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Love Hewitt Jennifer Anniston, to name a few [he does seem to like them 'Js' doesn't he?]) doesn’t exactly fit in with the songs that he writes, it nevertheless is a fact that he makes good music.

Mayer started out after dropping out of the Berklee College of Music, and was a part of the LoFi Masters, a two man band he shared with friend Clay Cook. They went their separate ways when John started pursuing a more pop-acoustic musical direction and went solo, spawning hits like “Back to You”, “No Such Thing” and “Your Body is a Wonderland”. Mayer slowly gained popularity and in 2003, won the Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the song “Your Body Is a Wonderland”.

posted by Robert on Jan 20

One of the most successful Irish bands ever to stem from the conflict torn land that was Ireland, at a time when it was still hoping for full autonomy from the British who have ruled and enforced rule on its people for years. The band started out as remnants of Limerick, the two brothers Noel Anthony and Michael Gerard Hogan teamed up with Fergal Lawler a drummer to form the group with Niall Quin as lead vocals. The band placed an add for a female lead which Dolores O’Riordan took up and when she brought a rough version of “Linger” in, she was hired immediately setting of the band as one of the most successful alternative bands ever. Their first album “Everybody else is doing it , So why can’t we?” was released in 1993 followed by the single “Dreams” further established their place on the charts.
Their fame brought initiative to get into their own acts with the band last performing as a group in 2003. There have been a lot of rumors as to when and if the band will be re-grouping and once again work together but they have all shown signs that the time has not yet come for they are still enjoying their individual careers, as of the moment. The band’s music is a diverse mix of Alternative, Indie and Celtic styles which has helped them gain popularity all over the world. Time will come when the band might decide to re-group and grace the world of music which eagerly awaits their return.

posted by Robert on Aug 11

image source: www.kenphillipsgroup.com

After their new success with the Appetite for Construction Tour, the band Switchfoot has yet again gone on board on another tour, Up in Arms Tour. The band has decided to go back to their preferred venue demographic following their mainly arena / small stadium tours for Appetite, the venues being college campuses, small amphitheatres, and small rock clubs. The trip will be a one month long concert tour and will see the band teaming up with philantrophic organization To Write Love on Her Arms. The UK pop rock outfit, Athlete, will be the opening act for every show. Throughout the tour, other rock bands such as Sparky’s Flow, The Myriad, etc. are usual to open for Switchfoot.

Switchfoot has been actively concerned in a number of humanitarian causes, as well as DATA, the ONE Campaign, the Keep A Breast Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, Invisible Children, and To Write Love on Her Arms. On top to supporting those causes Switchfoot has fronted the Switchfoot Bro-Am Surf Contest and the online magazine lowercase people.

posted by sayuri on Jul 18

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