Misc Music Discussions without categories
Play the Velvet Underground’s “Sister Ray” at half-speed — go ahead, do it — and you’ve got Swans plus a sense of humor and the possibility that, if you just adjust the speed control, everything will get good. Take away the sense of humor and the speed control, and you’ve got Swans. In all probability, you’ve also got either a high threshold for crunching pain or a splitting headache. Well, that’s Swans: downtown New York arties, friends of the infinitely more imaginative Sonic Youth. Swans trudge through dragging tempos, 2/2 meters and low frequency mush, all the while howling about alienation and despair. Listening to their records isn’t like banging your head against a wall; it’s like banging your head against the side of a swimming pool — underwater.
Trouser Press
Swans – Biography + Discography + Videos
Show Review – Baby Dee + Swans at the Middle East
Circus Mort – Bio + Discography + Videos
Swans – Selected Discography
Skin + The World Of Skin – Biography + Discography + Videos
Swans 2010 Tour – More Reviews + Photos + Videos
Swans At Brooklyn Masonic Temple – Photos + Videos + Reviews
Beautiful People LTD + Blackmouth – Biography + Discography + Videos
Angels Of Light – Biography + Discography + Videos
MP3/Video Vault – Swans + Angels Of Light + Skin
Body Lovers + Body Haters – Biography + Discography + Videos
Poll – Best Swans Album
Swans Documentary + MTV Interview With Michael Gira/Jarboe
Young God Records – Profile + Sampler
Show Review -Sir Richard Bishop + Wovenhand + Swans at Royale Boston
EDU & JUDGITZU - Edu (Nyege Nyege Tapes) Irreversible Entanglements - Vibrate Higher (Impulse!) Henriette…
Any analytics nerds out there? Here's a feast for your eyes and ears prepared by…
Time to toot that recordhorn again! Kilter, the second LP from Sheffield's Tinned…
Stu Hennigan is a writer, poet, editor and musician from the North of England. His…
Back in October of last year yours truly proclaimed social media dead. Caveat: its not,…
New Music Graham Dunning - Quern (Jollies Records) / New Graham Dunning mechanical techno LP…
