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Album Review: “Soused” — Scott Walker and Sunn O))) Take a Bold Excursion into the Impossible

Soused is such an impressive album because of its attempt to reconcile opposing aesthetic ends.

By: Austin W. Filed Under: Featured, Music, Rock Tagged: Bish Bosch, Scott Walker, Soused, Sunn O)))

Album Review: B L A C K I E — Conflating the Barbaric and the Beautiful

Imagine Yourself in a Free and Natural World finds B L A C K I E reaching an ambitious artistic high, delivering potent pieces of jazzy discord that impressively conflate the barbaric and the beautiful.

By: Austen Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: B L A C K I E, Folk, free jazz, hardcore punk, harsh noise, Hip Hop, Imagine Yourself in a Free and Natural World, Michael LaCour

CD Review: Shabazz Palaces’ “Lese Majesty” — Out-of-This-World Hip-Hop

Some listeners are undoubtedly going to dismiss Lese Majesty as a collection of vignettes or motifs, formless for all intents and purposes. That would be a shame.

By: Austin W. Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Black Up, Hip Hop, Lese Majesty, Shabazz Palaces, Tendai “Baba” Maraire

Fuse CD Review: Underground Music Round-Up

Here are a handful of underground/alternative music releases worth your consideration.

By: Austin W. Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BADBADNOTGOOD, Beyond Calculation, Cakes da Killa, Courageous Endeavors, Death Grips, FOODMAN (Shokuhin Maturi), Giant Claw, Hunger Pangs, niggas on the moon, oiss, Paisley Parks, Prototype, The Austerity Program, Underground

Television Review: “Louie” at Season Four — Art House TV

Louie is a difficult show to advertise because it is the only example of art-television at the moment.

By: Austin W. Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: FX, Louie, Louis C.K., Pamela Adlon

Fuse Music Round-up: The Year in Alternative Music … So Far

There have been three pop LPs this year that I’ve really been digging: they are gloriously wacky.

By: Austin W. Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Angel Guts : Red Classroom, Benji, Carla Bozulich, Deathconsciousness, Have a Nice Life, Hot Dreams, Nikki Nack, Sun Kil Moon, Swans, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Timber Timbre, To Be Kind, Xiu Xiu

Rock Review: Two Neo-Psychedelic Oddities — Outlandish Sonic Journeys Worth Taking

These challenging LPs offer opposing, but equally thrilling, aural/cinematic adventures: one is an overblown grindhouse flick, the other a wondrous fantasy feature.

By: Austin W. Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Kemialliset Ystävät, Tobacco, Ultima II Massage

CD Review: Swans — “To Be Kind” is Some Kind of a Masterpiece

I love an album that ends with a bang – and The Swans’ To Be Kind ends with four.

By: Austen R Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Rock Tagged: Swans, To Be Kind

Music Review: The Proud Evolution of Liars — from “They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top” to “Mess”

The dazzling LP “Mess” proves that the band Liars has not half-heartedly made the switch to electronic music.

By: Austin W. Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Liars, Mess

Rock Album Reviews: Two Recent Examples of High Grade Black Metal

The two best black metal LPs of the past few months come from the Netherlands’ An Autumn for Crippled Children and Poland’s Behemoth.

By: Austin W. Filed Under: Featured, Music, Rock Tagged: An Autumn for Crippled Children, Behemoth, Black Metal, death metal, The Satanist, Try Not to Destroy Everything You Love

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