Latest Review: Magic Lantern – High Beams

Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]

Kylesa not on tour, but offering a hell of a deal

Sorry for abandoning everyone this week, between work and the new Fall T.V. line up, I haven’t had much time to get on here, but since I pay all the bills around here I really could give a shit. It’s Friday afternoon and finding myself in a bit of a food coma after a late lunch I decided to troll the interwebs, which led me to this great T-Shirt w/LP deal that Kylesa is offering on their last two albums. And what better way to kill sometime at work than to do a little shopping.

I have sort of known of Kylesa for a while now from my friends always wearing their shirts, and them being mentioned in the same breath as other Southern hardcore-metal acts like Torche and Baroness. Anyways as I sat around waiting for other people to get their shit together, I finally took the time to check Kylesa out. And low and behold, they’re really good. They’re Southern without being typical, they’re hardcore without just straight up screaming, and they’re rock n’ roll without just knowing 3 chords. Kylesa bring together together avant-garde experimentalism with the pure fury of dirty, sludgy riffs and raw coexisting male and female vocals. A perfect fusion of sounds for someone like myself who needs something that’s a little “more”, in order to get into a band that from the outside looking in may seem to only offer some cool looking stoner rock art.

MP3: Kylesa – Where The Horizon Unfolds

MP3: Kylesa – Shatter The Clock

MP3: Kylesa – Bottom Line