The EP ends (sad face) withBrittlewhich is their longest track at 5:12. This track is massively different stylistically and honestly, if it weren’t for Steve’s strong accent coming through it could be mistaken for a different band. At 45 seconds in, guitar harmonics are used which is ...
1: One Arm Steve, Pleas > Bust It Big, Down, Me and the Devil Blues, Space Wrangler, Little Lilly¹ > Pickin' Up the Pieces¹, Ain't Life Grand¹ 2: Thought Sausage, Machine > Barstools and Dreamers, Blue Carousel > Bear's Gone Fishin' > I'm Not Alone, Blight > Halloween...
As a child I spent some time with Johnny’s older brother, Michael, before he died suddenly in 2001. Although I was too young to recognise it at the time, this double blow left Mum as the pivot between two sets of brothers. Her dead brothers, Michael and Johnny, had been born sevente...
Initially, “Down on the Corner” was the B-side of the CCR single. It quickly became just as popular as the A-side “Fortunate Son” song. The band came up with the name “Willie and the Poor Boys” for their 1969 album, from the lyrics to this “swamp rock” classic song. Fortu...
The broad sonic strokes spilling from the dramatic balladic piano chords, the guitar notes soaring or falling like shooting stars and percussive beats that feel melancholy in themselves all works as a framework for Snow's evocative vocal personna. To some, the sense might feel like 80's ...
It’s all killer, no filler for AFI, who penned upwards of 60 tracks before pairing it down to the final 14 on their self-titled disc subtitled ‘The Blood Album.’ AFI offered a one-two punch of the moody “Snow Cats” and the more aggressive “White Offerings” to kick off promoti...