Archive for January, 2008

Goldfinger - Stomping Ground

Artist: Goldfinger
Title: Stomping Ground
Label: Mojo
Rating: 6/10

Goldfinger had a close call with stardom when radio found “Here In Your Bedroom”. Since then, they’ve released a great full-length cover album, Darrin’s Coconut Ass, without incident, and now comes Stomping Ground, with its sharp, tactful punk tracks. The first two tracks, “I’m Down” and “Pick A Fight”, have [...]

Goldie - Ring of Saturn

Artist: Goldie
Title: Ring of Saturn
Label: London
Rating: 6/10

Goldie has taken the symphonic “Mother” from his ‘98 double album, Saturnz Return, and re-mixed it down to just a sip of its original hour-plus ocean of sound for Ring of Saturn. This stripped down version, still rolling in at over seven minutes, offers insight into the mysterious world [...]

Goldie

Today, there are few more influential and charismatic figures on the hardcore and jungle scenes than Goldie. Initially making his mark as a graffiti writer in his Midlands, UK hometown of Walsall, Goldie got rather good and started getting commissions. “I’d paint my estate because I couldn t be a thief”, he remembers. “At night [...]

Glassjaw

Daryl Palumbo - Vocals
Beck - Guitar
Todd N. Weinstock - Guitar
Manuel Carrero - Bass
Larry Gorman - Drums
Glassjaw Naked and truthful. Pure and brutally direct. Glassjaw work stray chords, a Radiohead-ish swirl of guitar and a barrage of bared emotions into a frenzy that’s singular and uncompromising. Glassjaw’s IAM/Roadrunner debut, Everything You Ever Wanted To Know [...]

Girls Against Boys

GVSB was formed in 1992. They were born in Washington, DC but now call New York City home. They have released three EP’s and four previous full length albums (three of which were on Touch and Go). They have appeared on three soundtracks and many independent compilations. “FREAK*ON*ICA”, which was recorded at Seedy Underbelly in [...]

Glitterbox

Johnny Green - singing and guitars
Miles Heseltine - guitars and singing
Tony Holland - bass guitar
Mark Servaes - drumming
Like a “square peg in a star-shaped hole,” Glitterbox don’t quite fit into any easy catagorization. The London-based quartet’s debut album, “TIED AND TANGLED,” stands out from much of today’s increasingly generic Britpop by virtue of turbine guitars, [...]

Dana Glover

THE HISTORY
There is a distinctive southern lilt in singer-songwriter Dana Glover’s voice, but that voice is blue-eyed soul, not big-hat country. “I do want my music to show I’m from the South,” she says. “But I was raised on the sounds of gospel and old-school soul.”
This musical heritage has naturally found its way into Glover’s [...]

Gob

Tom – guitars, vocals
Theo– guitars, vocals
Craig – bass
Gabe –drums
There’s nothing like throwing a dung-shaped chocolate bar into a hotel pool filled with frolicking families to break up the monotony of life on the road. “It was total chaos,” laughs Gob guitarist/vocalist/chief mischief-maker Theo, who pulled the stool stunt during a recent tour stopover in Chicago. [...]

Amanda Ghost

With a potent blend of precision songwriting and a passion for performing, Amanda Ghost is set to demolish the staid and stale image of the traditional chanteuse with Ghost Stories, her persuasive debut album on Warner Bros. Records.
“Amanda Ghost has everything it takes to be a pop star,” enthused the London Telegraph in its recent [...]

Ghostface Killah

Before hip-hop sold its soul to the mainstream, groups like the Wu-Tang Clan moved the masses with their grizzly Staten Island-bred battle cries. Through the righteous wordplay first heard on their 1993 debut, the nine-man unit counter-cultured the recording industry with a brand of authenticity that has yet to be matched. There is no question [...]