Fiasco were a young and noisy math punk-like three-piece that recently called it quits without my knowledge.
In honor of my rediscovery of this gem that I found on Myspace five years ago, I decided to do some research on Fiasco. Turns out these guys had a little bit more of cult following in New York than I had previously known. Maybe it had to do with the fact that one of the members of Fiasco was the offspring of Steve Buscemi...
Lucian Buscemi.
The one in the middle.
Similar sounds/acts: Steve Buscemi, Hella, Tera Melos, Good Citizens, Lightning Bolt, The Homosexuals, Fugazi, Minor Threat, and other math rock but not bands.
Dog Knights Productions presents a 25 song tribute to one of the most influential and essential bands in screamo, Orchid. Epilogue of a Car Crash, named after the chilling closer from Chaos Is Me, features 24 screamo/hardcore/punk whatever bands assembled from all over the world with the soul purpose of honoring the band that probably got them into this whole skramz mess.
The album includes some familiar names like: Full of Hell, For Want Of, Carrion Spring, Lizards Have Personalities, Foxes, Republic of Dreams, Innards, and Sed Non Saitata (twice!); along with some new names (to me) like: Coma Regalia, Voyage In Coma, Questionable Youth, Lord Snow, Itto, History of the Hawk, Todos Caerán, and many more!
New 2 song 7incher by the doomed noise metal onslaught, Wreck and Reference. These 2 songs, titled No Content or Content, is a bit more black metal than their previous releases in my opinion... I'm not complaining though. Good stuff all around.
Silver Jews were an explorational early 90s to late 2000s indie rock group that thrived mostly on the creative songwriting juices of David Berman. The original line-up of Silver Jews consisted of Berman and Pavement's Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich - who left after their debut full-length, Starlite Walker but returned for their 2005 album, Tanglewood Numbers.
To many, American Water is the essential Silver Jews album. It encompasses the perfect amount of somber Berman singing with the right amount of story-telling and the right amount of Stephen Malkmus.
Highlights: "Random Rules", "People", "Honky If Your Lonely", "Blue Arrangement", "Smith & Jones Forever"
While this album will never be the Silver Jews album that got me into Berman's stuff, that would be their last album from 2008, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, it does feature my favorite Silver Jews song: "Smith & Jones Forever". "Smith & Jones Forever" was the last song that the Silver Jews ever played live - a fact I hope never changes if they ever decide to go on a reunion tour and play something else:
Similar acts/sounds: Pavement, Smog, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Rites of Spring, Bonny "Prince" Billy, Songs: Ohia, Miighty Flashlight, The Modern Lovers, Calvin Johnson, Guided By Voices, and other 90's indie rock music.
Scour is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist, Felix Skinner. Skinner also plays in the synth doom/black noise California outfit, Wreck and Reference - which can be heard very clearly through his music as Scour if you are familiar with W&R's stuff.
This self-titled album features 26 songs that start with the letter x. I haven't done much research on the matter, but I'm certain that Scour has more songs starting with the letter x than any other musician/band out there today.
