Beaming out of a soggy Camden the newly reactivated Lighthouse trio, now re-invigorated as a co-operative trio that has shed a little of its ‘chamber’ trappings, performed songs from new album Lighthouse at the Forge in London last night. While Gwilym Simcock did most of the talking between songs referencing among other links to tunes the Italian wine Barolo, a favourite apparently of Malcom Creese’s, his erstwhile colleague in Acoustic Triangle, and inspiration of album tune ‘King Barolo’, it was the bass clarinet of Tim Garland that set the predominant feel of the first set. Forget the “gloom tube ...

Every Tuesday, we head down to East Village Radio and play our new favorite songs for two hours, occasionally pausing to say words in the microphone. Tonight New York’s in a soggy, humid mist, and … read more »

The entire new Hour of 13 record "333", a new 29 minute track by Aldebaran from the new "Embrace the Lightless Abyss" release and the entire new EP by Holy Mountain titled "Earth Measures" are streaming on the new Soggy Bog Podcast #75 at this location. The new Crestfallen #79 episode is also on the podcast page and at this site featuring sixtee... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Four years ago, Canadian folksinger Jill Barber reinvented herself as a smoky chanteuse with the lush Chances . Thanks largely to its catchy “Oh My My,” the album ignited a rapturous outpouring of praise across her native land, and she was heralded as the second coming of Edith Piaf or even Ella Fitzgerald. Not so fast. While the album demonstrated laudable pluck and confirmed Barber’s status as a solid songwriter, her retro-fashioned bleating seemed more a parlor trick, an elaborate game of dress-up, than a sustainably valid style. Now, with Mischievous Moon , Barber reteams with producer Les Cooper to ratchet ...

Bill Baird Career [Self-Released; 2012] by Alan Ranta Rating: Texas’ Bill Baird is one of the last surviving rock ’n’ roll geniuses. As the brains behind the brilliant Sunset, a principal member of Sound Team, and as a solo artist, the consistent quality and volume of the Austin enigma’s creative output over the past six years is rivaled in recent history only by the early years of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, but thankfully without Anton Newcombe’s messiah complex. That’s not to say Baird isn’t eccentric, ’cause he most certainly is, but that he manages to functionally ...

Songs inspired by Malaysian monsoons, Karen Dalton and old shops in Redfern – Sydney-reared, Melbourne-born singer Sui Zhen (aka Becky Freeman) talks us through her new album ‘Two Seas’, which was recorded with Tony Dupe (Holly Throsby, Jack Ladder). With this first album, I took a “learn the rules before you break them” approach. I wanted to practice the art of classic songwriting, so that I could perform solo or with a band or even a cappella and the songs would still work. Once I learned how to do this, I could start to experiment and get a little weird. ‘My ...

The latest edition of 'Food Corner' is brought to you by Tadzio Pederzolli of HOLY . Forthcoming Live Dates: 02/05/12 - Brighton, The Hydrant 03/05/12 - London, Black Heart (Camden) 04/05/12 - Leeds, Fox & Newt 05/05/12 - Norwich, Olives Café I think food is the most amazing thing in the entire world. When I wake up I think about what I'm going to eat for breakfast. While I'm eating breakfast I'm thinking about lunch and so on…I'm obsessed with food and always have been! Since adopting a vegan lifestyle, I have chosen ...

Spring took a break from Bushwick on this night, March 7; the temperature dropped with the sun, and soon enough cold blasts of wind were cutting through the side streets surrounding the Acheron in Brooklyn, New York. The chill was an occasional relief from the soggy heat of a hundred crusties, metalheads, and mohawked punks [...]

Not much is made of good band names these days, with emphasis only on the bad and the irrefutably ugly but Savages , the moniker of a menacing, quite precariously hyped London four-piece currently spewing charisma and gusto out from the doorways of dimly lit haunts, is a fucking brilliant one. Fitting such billing are the songs themselves: a purposeful bluster of diligent agitation, they're ones to watch out for before they creep up and ferociously shred your every niggling fear that guitars and the distorted grunge they secrete are dying, dead, expired or some such bullshit. Savages need not ...

Southern California's Coachella Music and Arts Festival is expanding to two three-day weekends this year, and the first weekend got off to a soggy start, as uncharacteristic rainstorms threatened the site. However, the rain couldn't dampen the spirits of fest-goers, who grooved to the sounds of French act M83, reggae legend Jimmy Cliff (backed by Rancid's Tim Armstrong), reunited Brit pop legends Pulp and headliners The Black Keys. http://www.hitfix.com

This session ain't no soggy bowl of frosted flakes. Nor is it a greasy sausage, egg, and cheese from your local fast food counter. What we're serving up is some honest to god nourishment, courtesy of a couple of hip-hop pranksters from the city of brotherly love. Chiddy Bang-- the stars of our latest slice of video cuisine-- has a few years of underground material to their name. But aside from their frustratingly short EP The Preview, the band waited far too long to take their hip-pop hybri

In the almighty Pantheon of Doom Metal, next to such immoveable pillars as Black Sabbath and Saint Vitus, there stands ELECTRIC WIZARD from Dorset, England. Recognized as one of the greats of the genre, ELECTRIC WIZARD has a reputation to live up to. Recently, Jus Oborn and friends have returned with a killer new album titled Black Masses, further guaranteeing their tenure in the Pantheon. Black Masses, released in North America on January 18 via Rise Above Records, was produced by Grammy-winning engineer Liam Watson (THE WHITE STRIPES) in London’s Toe Rag Studios. Upon dropping the needle on this ...

This is something of a watershed moment for me. My library of musical morsels is very particular. I love the classic LP immeasurably, to the point where, of the hundreds of albums I own, only one of those is a “Best of...” ( Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds by Teenage Fanclub, if you’re asking, an album I urge everyone to go and buy). I would never have thought of possessing a “remix” album, but life is all about variety and expanding one’s horizons, so I though what better opportunity to branch the musical gap between crippling anal ...

To cover this week’s Jam In The Dam, we’ve enlisted the help of Joshua Bogen, editor of JambandsEurope.com , to give the perspective of an European fan on the multi-band festival. Please welcome Josh, who’s aiming to provide updates each day. In a few short days, I’m off to Amsterdam. Windmills, tulips, funny wooden shoes and Jam In The Dam . For many American jam band fans it is just one more date on the festival circuit and not an important one. And it’s not exactly huge, so you may not think it’s such a ...

The Soggy Bog has posted its most recent #66 podcast on the theme of HP Lovecraft, which you may stream over at this location. A list of the 26 artists streaming in the podcast follows below, with background music from the album "Dead but Dreaming" by Subterrestrial providing the audio backdrop. ?That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with ... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com