One of the better weeks in terms of Loud Rock Adds, this time we see Clutch drop what could be their greatest album to date, Finnish monster costumers Lordi release a “beastly” (teehee) record, and the highly anticipated Kvelertak album. Also, I still have no idea how to pronounce that band name. Kelvin Tack? Kevlar attack? 1…
Caspian’s Drummer Joe Vickers Discusses Newest Album and Current State of Post-Rock
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published March 16th, 2013Post rock outfit Caspian recently stopped by Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco to close out the Noisepop 2013 Festival, and holy mother of god what a way to go out. Before the prodigious climax however, I was lucky enough to sit down with Caspian drummer Joe Vickers and converse about topics ranging from…
Loud Rock Charts: 3/12
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published March 11th, 2013Unfortunately, last week there as a mix up with KZSC’s CMJ subscription, hence the lack of charts and adds. With this week, however, KZSC is back in business, and boy what a week. This time around sees hard rock band Krokus release their 17th studio album. Yeah, you read that right. 17. As in the…
Charts and Adds 3/8/2013
By Jazz and Blues Boss | Published March 8th, 2013Here are KZSCs latest jazz charts and adds for the week. We had an error in our CMJ subscription the past week, but it is now fixed and here are the results for the past two weeks. Charts: 1 JOSE JAMES No Beginning No End Blue Note 2 LAUREN DESBERG Sideways [EP] 3 NEXT COLLECTIVE …
Between the Buried and Me Bassist Dan Brigss Talks New Tour, New Band & Album
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published March 7th, 2013I recently was given the opportunity to chat with the bassist from progressive metal giant Between the Buried and Me. Below you can read highlights of our conversation in which we cover Russian Circles, Dan’s new band Trioscapes and even an AMA they conducted on reddit not too long ago. Brootalisk: How did you feel…
Looking At A Glass Onion…
By Michael Bryant | Published March 7th, 2013DJ Prudence displays her artwork, a painting entitled “Glass Onion”. It’s her re-imagining of the classic Lennon song from The White Album. This one-of-a-king piece will be offered today on The Beatles’ “Here, There & Everywhere” program, along with other Fab Four thank you gifts and of course your requests. Thursday mornings without George, Paul,…
New Growlers Album: Hung At Heart
By Rock Director | Published March 5th, 2013Self-branded as “Beach Goth”, the Orange County crew The Growlers are road warriors. Playing a seemingly endless string of dates, the quintet wander the country like modern day pranksters delivering a tight set of their jaunty organ-infused surf rock. Costa Mesa’s psych-surf garage outfit took time off the road to produce their third LP, a collection of…
Loud Rock Charts: 2/26
By Trevor Mascarenhas | Published February 25th, 2013Thursday night, I witnessed one of the greatest acts on metal this world has seen. No, it wasn’t any big name bands like Opeth or Gojira. It was just a small three piece band, who use nothing more than 2 lights, a little bit of fog, and three instruments to create one of the most unbelievable live…
Staples Center goes Vegetarian for Morrissey
By New Media Director | Published February 21st, 2013Morrissey has infamously pushed vegetarianism on concert venues he has promised to play. The latest one did not have to pushed. The Staples Center has agreed to go completely vegetarian for the Morrissey concert on March 1st on the condition that the singer does not cancel. How many times has somebody ever said, “I had…
Old Man Takes A Look At His Life
By Rock Director | Published February 20th, 2013We here at the Great 88 love a good rockstar memoir. They offer us windows into the creative minds of our musical heroes. Plus they’re just fun reading. The latest and greatest grey haired musings come to us from everyones favorite flannel wearing Canadian, Neil Young. In “Waging Heavy Peace” the prolific songwriter meanders through…