Collection of album/music reviews from I Heart Noise
"Are you guys in line for a comedy?" Admittedly, I'm not the biggest fan of Freak Puke - Melvins most recent LP. While not a complete abomination a-la Load or Cold Lake, Puke is still far from being ideal - good record from a band that can do much, much better. Safe to say, when…
The name Guano Padano is completely new to me, but one look at the list of GP's past and present collaborators (Marc Ribot, Mike Patton, Gary Lucas) tells me that those three Italian gents have a lot of connections in the music world. As you might've guessed, the fact that "2" came out on Ipecac…
Its a clash of the titans, as grindcore/death metal overlords Napalm Death face hardcore road warriors Converge! Converge side of the split includes one new track ("No Light Escapes", which will also be featured on their upcoming studio album) and one cover (Entombed classic "Wolverine Blues"). Latter also features numerous guest appearances by…
Dedicated to the victims of shooting in Aurora, Colorado Ah! The Replacements. You were the embodiment of everything that is both right and wrong about rock'n'roll - from drunken fights to intentionally sloppy shows, to an absolute lack of ambition which somehow translated into an actual career (and, tragically, the firing and subsequent death of…
Mike's love for all things Italian (as well as endless genre-hopping) continues. Speaking of genre-hopping... There's seemingly no stone that Patton left unturned in his attempts to cover different sides of Italian music - there's traditional pop (Mondo Cane), soundtrack work of Ennio Moricone (Fantomas' Director's Cut) and finally here's his tribute to avant-garde…
"This is a joke, right?" Those there were some of the first words that were uttered by my high school buddy who sat down with me in order to check out "Angel Dust". By the time that we got to "Midnight Cowboy" he was laughing hysterically and I was ready to bury my face in…
