The human condition affects most. These songs act as a form of therapy, telling stories of falling asleep with the TV on and dreams of living in the mountains. An amalgamation of maudlin memories combining archived personal audio journals, field recordings, solemn guitar pickings, loops and sounds. The things I saw yesterday seem like I [...]

Whoever Brian Stefan is, thank you. So here’s the distillation of my “post-punk” anthology of Southern California bands. I’m having a hard time finding a truly accurate title for the comp, since many of the bands are from the county but from places with very particular scenes, like Pasadena and Long Beach, and a few are from outside of the city altogether (but within a two-hour drive). And to call these “post-punk” bands is not entirely accurate; many of them are “new wave,” “darkwave,” “deathrock,” “art rock,” even something like “freak folk.” Oh well. We strongly recommend reading ...

While the making of The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street (which many consider to be one of their best, if not greatest album) has been chronicled numerous times both in print and film (most recently in Stephen Kijak's documentary "Stones In Exile"), the entire story of those rocky sessions and the background that led to the album has a feature film scope. Certainly, Richard Branson sees things that way as he's throwing his producing powers behind a narrative movie that will bring the tale of Exile On Main Street to the big screen. Virgin Produced has snapped ...

The Melodians : Rivers Of Babylon [Purchase] I was doing my all too rare church thing with my family when we read a very familiar sounding Psalm 137:    By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs, ...How can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a strange land? The psalm tells the story of Jewish people in exile following the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem. Among Rastafarians, Babylon represents the unholy white political power that has been keeping black ...

Bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu loves a challenge, so how did he learn to sing in Mandarin for the premiere of Three Poems by Mu Xin? I've just arrived back in London from singing two world premieres at the New Zealand international arts festival . One of these, Gao Ping 's Three Poems By Mu Xin, will receive its UK premiere in London on 29 March, performed by the New Zealand String Quartet at Kings Place . Gao Ping is a prolific solo pianist who has taught composition at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, since 2004, and blends elements of ...

Directed by Ilko Davidov (producer of "William Burroughs: A Man Within"), "THE STORY OF ROCK 'N' ROLL COMICS" examines the short, controversial life of publisher Todd Loren, whose scandalous series of unauthorized comic book biographies of rock stars charmed some (Gene Simmons, Jerry Garcia, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd) and enraged others (Axl Rose, Bon Jovi, Skid Row, New Kids on the Block) who eventually sued him. In a landmark ruling however, the California Supreme Court decided that "Rock 'N' Roll Comics' was protected by the First Amendment and that Loren could continue publishing. But in 1992, Loren is found ...

The fun loving producer duo EZLV  out of the Montreal are kick-starting a new label named after the life loving Savannah animal. First out on Surricate  is a Swede in exile – Simon Svensson living in US. The original track … Continue...

What a year it's been! Following the debut Ripple releases of 2010, which found Ripple Music topping several Year-End "Best of Lists," Ripple returned in 2011 determined to build upon the love music fans have shown for authentic, guitar-driven rock 'n roll. And to say 2011 was an exciting year would be an understatement! Following the release of the Stone Axe debut album with bonus live material, and a companion DVD, Ripple released more Stone Axe via the Heavy Ripples compilation double 7”, with Mighty High, Grifter , and Sun Gods In Exile . And speaking of Grifter , their Ripple debut ...

Show Lyrics [+]I see you there, like a light in the sky Don`t give up, and I`ll fight If you show me a sign The monkeys in exile, they`re screaming because they know it`s time The city it sleeps, Not knowing the reason why We stop and stare, `cause we don`t know where we`re going [...]

Between the chiseled Nietzschean prog rock of ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ and the brash, sexually ambiguous glam of ‘Ziggy Stardust’ nestles ‘Hunky Dory’, Bowie’s fourth studio album. An artful anachronism in his prolific ’70s canon, ostensibly it’s one of his most ‘straightforward’ albums. Its sheer stateliness and scope rendering it anything but of course. With hindsight it appears a thinly veiled statement of intent, introducing us to almost all the themes that were to recur throughout his career. Even the sleeve, which has him posed as a modern day Dietrich, ushered in the affectation of the ...

Double albums are tricky beasts and rarely live up to expectations. In most cases, the band seems to have worked out they have more than enough good material for a single album, but then overlooked the fact that they have insufficient to form a double. Once CD's came along, a band in this position could easily let an album run to sixty minutes without anyone noticing. If you were Rainbow , you just produced a double album of short sides which may have satisfied the band but left the listener feeling rather short changed. Hardly surprising then, that when the ...

Following in the footsteps of pioneering Saharan band Tinariwen and the late Malian six-string virtuoso Ali Farka Touré, Nigerian guitarist Omara "Bombino" Moctar has risen in a few short years from living in exile to being one of the leading lights of African music. A member of the...

U.K. band Ancient Ascendant has posted a new song online titled "Titan," which is off the new album "The Grim Awakening." You can check out the track below. The album&aposs; track listing is as follows: 1. The Scorn of Dead Men 2. Once Numb 3. Bleeding in Exile 4. Sorrow&aposs; Score 5. Grim Awakenings 6. Lost Rage In The Dying Light 7. Raven... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Canadian experimental artist Anthony von Seck collaborated with the likes of Amy Millan from Stars, Basia Bulat, Elizabeth Anka Vajagic, plus the players from A Silver Mt. Zion and Stars to create his conceptual debut album My Best Friends In Exile. The concept behind the album is that it “felt more like you were surfing through radio stations, starting as very dense and urban, and whittling down into something more earthy and fragile.” “The Music of My Best Friend In Exile” was launched to a packed audience during a live performance at Pop Montreal in October 2009. Here are three ...

The idea that The Doors vocalist Jim Morrison may have faked his own death in 1971 is a prevailing rock 'n' roll idea. Perhaps that's why Tim Sullivan has optioned the rights to The Doors co-founder Ray Manzarek's bestselling novel The Poet in Exile. (In case you are interested in the