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The Silver Skeleton Band on Their Music
After discovering the recent release of The Silver Skeleton Band's latest album, Snake Highs, I couldn't help but wonder why this band's entire discography was self-categorized as jazz while at first sounding it is characteristically not; it was no mistake as the band's first album Catscratch Jazz announces it loud and proud. Vocalist/Guitarist/Keyboardist Nikki of The Silver Skeleton Band has an answer: "Jazz isn't a genre for us but as it is freeform it seemed the best nest for something I don't care to label. We aren't jazz and don't play jazz but we were jazzed to make these records, jazz is question and answer and - rarely do I find the two in harmony but 'observations on a world of jazz' was not an option." While his reply puts to rest the question in mind regarding the band's discography, it makes present another question on genre-labeling and its purpose. Is genre a variable open to artistic license post-recording?
-Kate G.
#reverb#the silver skeleton band#genre#interview#correspondence#jazz#rock#Blues#rockabilly#indie#music#honkytonk
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Listen/purchase: Snake Highs by The Silver Skeleton Band
I've been waiting to share this one upon finding out this Vancouver-based band's take on their albums' genre listings as "jazz", but this album is too good to hold on to any longer. Released on the 6th of this month, The Silver Skeleton Band's second album Snake Highs has much of the same dark and rumbling mojo as their first album, Catscratch Jazz, without as much of the blues influence. Somewhere between surf and a more lurid version of early sixties Whiskey-A-Go-Go, Snake Highs is the paradigm of modern rock/pop relevant to the masses of mid-century enthusiasts and indie connoisseurs alike.
-Kate G.
#the silver skeleton band#snake highs#jazz#rock#surf#blues#rockabilly#indie#mojo#sixties#new#vancouver#music#honkytonk#reviews
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2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Announced Today
Today the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced their 2014 Inductees. Although the selection process has been questioned in the past, with nominees considered by a committee of 70 rock journalists, label executives, and rock historians, the institution has made a fan poll available in recent years. Eligibility in the institution's own words are as follows: "The artist must have released a record, in the generally accepted sense of that phrase, at least 25 years prior to the year of induction; and have demonstrated unquestionable musical excellence." This year's inductees are Peter Gabriel, KISS, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, Hall and Oates, E Street Band, Andrew Loog Oldham, and Brian Epstein. To learn more about the institution and the induction process see the link below.
http://www.rockhall.com
-Kate G.
#rock#rock and roll#rock and roll hall of fame#peter gabriel#kiss#nirvana#linda ronstadt#cat stevens#hall and oates#e street band#andrew loog oldham#brian epstein#music#honkytonk#news
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Led Zeppelin on Spotify
Has anyone else been getting the Led out via Spotify since the band's catalog was made available six days ago? The days of settling for Zep cover bands at the hand of Spoitify are no more!
-Kate G.
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Legendary blues harp player and vocalist Junior Wells was born this day in 1934 Memphis, TN, but came to fame in Chicago during the golden age of Chess Records and similar labels with greats like Muddy Waters and Etta James.
-Kate G.
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After releasing their self-titled album in 2010 and their first EP Meyrin Fields in 2011, the Broken Bells returned this year with teaser single "Holding On For Life" before the release of their latest album After The Disco due in early 2014. Yesterday the band released this video for their most recent single along with a self-proclaimed prologue "After the Disco Part l" for their coming album. Landing somewhere between 2001: A Space Odyssey and the original Total Recall, one may look back to "The Ghost Inside" from the band's first album and ask "Where are they taking us?" as we await After The Disco.
EDIT: Found this post interesting? Take a look at the making of the video for "The Ghost Inside" here.
-Kate G.
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by Jeremy Irons & The Ratgang Malibus (Small Stone Records)
A cosmic transcension into the illusory world of Jeremy Irons & The Ratgang Malibus, Bloom, is the band’s first album. It introduces itself with opening track “Elefanta”, a mid-journey oath “It’s not a joke this time, I’m leaving reality for sure,” assures us that we’re witness to a story that started before we got here. Title song “Bloom” meters similar endurance as “Elefanta”, and is conceivably similar as it describes our lead having another revelation like the oath we started with. Perhaps not altogether intimidating technically or stylistically, the plait of mellotron and tremolo that curtains the eight tracks provides a heavy tip of the hat to the band’s psychedelic rock ancestors. However, the range and wail of Apelmo’s voice reaches a point letting out every breath he’s got that is most distinctive of those of hard-rock giants. The gang fashions a nomadic character and pulls us along on the journey, the “Where am I going?” question isn’t quite so daunting with so many descriptions of the gold, glittering, and transformative along the way to distract your eyes and ears from the road.
-Kate G.
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