Listening Lately: Scissorfight, Year of the Cobra, and More

The Corolla of Doom has been traded in for the Forester of Doom, but the burned CDs will never be replaced.  Here’s what I’ve been listening to in my car lately… If House of A Thousand Corpses and Sons of Anarchy got into a scissor fight at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert, it would sound like… … Continue reading Listening Lately: Scissorfight, Year of the Cobra, and More

AltCtrlToob Video Premiere: “Curse” by VIA VENGEANCE

He likes owls! Photo borrowed from Facebook.

I’ll say this about Salt of the Earth Records — for a label based in Connecticut, land of deciduous forests and wet, nasty, winters, they sure have a thing for bands from the desert!  This connection is evidenced through SOTE’s latest musical find: Phoenix, Arizona’s Via Vengeance.  The one-man operation of Shane Ocell, Alternative Control… Continue reading AltCtrlToob Video Premiere: “Curse” by VIA VENGEANCE

Bearing Light from Coast to Coast: An Interview with Kyle Stratton of Atala

Atala performing at Maryland Doomfest 2019. Photo by Julya Brown.

Thanks to an introduction from my photographer bud Julya, I did an off the cuff interview with Kyle Stratton from Atala after their performance at 2019’s Maryland Doomfest.  This was the eighth day of the band’s 16-day, 16-show tour; beginning in northern California (nine hours away from their hometown on the California/Arizona border), their journey… Continue reading Bearing Light from Coast to Coast: An Interview with Kyle Stratton of Atala

Listening Lately: The Maryland Doomfest Edition

I’m excited to be attending my first Maryland Doomfest in June — both to see bands that I’ve enjoyed previously and to find bands that are new or “new to me.”  To that end, I’ve been looking at the lineup and checking out a few names that were unfamiliar. First up is Wolf Blood, a driving… Continue reading Listening Lately: The Maryland Doomfest Edition

Album Review: Thunderbird Divine’s Magnasonic

Thunderbird Divine’s debut full length Magnasonic, released on CD this month through Connecticut label Salt of the Earth Records, offers four tracks of spaced out stoner rock grooves that are sure to please genre enthusiasts.  But what distinguishes this Philadelphia outfit from the pack? First of all, TBD experiments with nontraditional instrumentation right from their… Continue reading Album Review: Thunderbird Divine’s Magnasonic

Listening Lately: There and Back Again with Green Druid, Visigoth, and Shadow Witch

One thing these columns have made me realize is that I do most of my serious music listening in the car — so a recent three-hour round trip was the perfect opportunity to soak in some new tunes.  My band was playing a show in Norwich, which is our furthest destination to date; drummer Chris… Continue reading Listening Lately: There and Back Again with Green Druid, Visigoth, and Shadow Witch