Friday, December 21, 2012
Invisible Oranges Recap with Anatomy of Habit
Anatomy of Habit also made our way onto the Invisible Oranges year-end list, too...granted, the supplemental list... http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2012/12/top-50-albums-of-2012-75-to-51/
CVLT Nation revisits AOH EP
Anatomy of Habit are in great company on this year-end list from the excellent CVLT Nation site - sitting with our friends Locrian, Sun Splitter and Rosenkopf: http://www.cvltnation.com/cvlt-nations-top-six-avant-garde-releases-of-2012-2/#more-64990
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
2012 Year End Music List Thing
No one asked me to make a list this year, but I enjoyed thinking about it last year, so what the hell...
My favorite records of 2012, in
alphabetical order:
And You Will
Know Us By The Trail Of Dead “Lost Songs”
All The
Saints “Intro To Fractions”
Atriarch
“Rituals Of Passing”
Crippled
Black Phoenix “(Mankind) The Crafty Ape”
Deftones
“Koi No Yokan”
Disappears
“Pre Language”
Killing Joke
“MMXII”
Neurosis
“Honor Found In Decay”
Rosenkopf
“Rosenkopf”
Spiritualized
“Sweet Heart Sweet Light”
Swans “The
Seer”
Tame Impala
“Lonerism”
Tindersticks
“The Something Rain”
Vaura “Selenelion”
Scott Walker
“Bish Bosch”
White Hills
“Frying On This Rock”
Other records that I listened to a lot or
that also made an impression on me:
Bailterspace
“Strobosphere”
Conan
“Monnos”
Cult Of
Youth “Love Will Prevail”
High On Fire
“De Vermis Mysteriis”
Incantation
“Vanquish In Vengeance”
Liars
“WIXIW”
My Dying
Bride “A Map Of All Our Failures”
Nachtmystium
“Silencing Machine”
Necro
Deathmort “The Colonial Script”
A Place To
Bury Strangers “Worship”
Process Of
Guilt “Faemin”
Rush
“Clockwork Angels”
Saint Vitus
“Lillie: F-65”
Samothrace “Reverence
To Stone”
Shining
“Redefining Darkness”
The Soft
Moon “Zeros”
The Smashing
Pumpkins “Oceania”
Swans “We
Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head”
Ulaan
Markhor “Ulaan Markhor”
Live, re-issue and related:
Led Zeppelin
“Celebration Day”
Medicine
(Box Set)
Sonic Youth
“Sonic Youth - Smart Bar - Chicago 1985”
My Bloody Valentine "Isn't
Anything"/"Loveless"/"EP's 1988–1991"
Demos/micro-editions/recordings/etc. that
point to some great 2013 releases:
Envenomist, Iulgula-Thor,
Pharmakon, Sshe Retina Stimulants, Sshe Retina Stimulants + Neil Jendon
Albums that I released this year – that I
listened to a ton – but it would not be right to add them to the main list:
Arriver
“Tsushima”
Chris
Connelly “Artificial Madness”
Josh Hydeman
“Madison’s Fence”
Sun Splitter
“III”
Top two live shows by a huge margin:
Crime and
the City Solution @ Lincoln Hall
Swans @
Metro
A bigger list of great shows/sets, in no particular order:
Atriarch,
Indian @ The Empty Bottle
Bloodiest,
Del Rey @ Lincoln Hall
Yob @ The
Empty Bottle
Primitive
Weapons, Chrome Waves, Pilgrim @ Cobra Lounge
Sshe Retina
Stimulants + Neil Jendon @ Tritriangle
Tombs @
Township
Xeno and
Oaklander @ Casa Aztlan
Saint Vitus
@ Bottom Lounge
Rosenkopf @
Cobra Lounge
Pelican @
Lincoln Hall
Cult of
Youth, Pharmakon, Cemetery @ The Empty Bottle
Helen Money,
Yakuza @ The Empty Bottle
Hive Mind @
The Burlington
Bellini, Bottomless Pit @ Quenchers Saloon
Local bands I was very glad to see – and I
saw several of them multiple times this year:
Alma Negra
(especially with Lark’s Tongue @ Stage Bar)
Arriver
The Atlas
Moth (especially with Altar of Plagues @ Ultra Lounge)
Bloodiest
(worth mentioning again!)
Cemetery (better
and better each time, enjoyed the addition of synth)
Disappears
(both at the Dust Up on Damen Ave. and at Rainbo)
Electric Hawk
Indian
Lord Mantis
(especially at Cobra Lounge when Dylan from Indian made a guest appearance)
Population
(maybe my favorite set this year was at Casa Aztlan)
Rabid Rabbit
(under red light at Ultra Lounge was great; the “Wagner” set was heavy, too)
Sun Splitter
The Swan
King
I am sure that I am forgetting some things so it is likely that I will add to this list as things pop into my mind...
- Mark Solotroff, December 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
BloodShop! Updates
BloodShop! updates are ongoing... Lots of posters were added to the "Live Shows" section, with many more to come, and a new "Discography" section is nearly complete, featuring a simple text-based listing of every BloodLust! release from 1995 to now... The store will hopefully soon feature listings for all available and out of print BloodLust! releases, with complete details, credits, images, etc.
http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/
Sunday, December 09, 2012
Intrinsic Action Bandcamp Update
http://intrinsicaction.bandcamp.com/
Saturday, December 08, 2012
The Fortieth Day Bandcamp Update
http://thefortiethday.bandcamp.com/
Mark Solotroff Bandcamp Page Now Live
http://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/
Chicago, This Monday...
Looking forward to this show on Monday... David Reed (Envenomist, Luasa Raelon, Nightmares and a frequent BLOODYMINDED contributor) will be collaborating with Andre Foisy from Locrian - and it seems like ages since Mike Connelly has played in Chicago as Failing Lights...
http://www.facebook.com/events/164538697024073/?ref=ts&fref=ts
This is still available, too: http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-094-failing-lights-true-form-7-inch
http://www.facebook.com/events/164538697024073/?ref=ts&fref=ts
This is still available, too: http://bloodshop.bigcartel.com/product/b-094-failing-lights-true-form-7-inch
Rabid Rabbit Plays Wagner...TONIGHT!
Rabid Rabbit's dark take on opera at New Capital's 24HRS/25DAYS celebration
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on 12.06.12 at 02:00 PM
- MARIAH KARSON
- Rabid Rabbit
With Gloomy Sunday, the band—along with an awesome cast of some of Chicago's weirdest noisemakers, including Mark Solotroff, Dave Rempis, and Bruce Lamont—reimagined the 1930s song into a massive, plodding dirge full of chants, noise, and saxophone skronk. The original "Gloomy Sunday" is best known for an urban legend surrounding it: the recording was banned from the radio after causing at least 19 suicides in Hungary and America (though the suicides are difficult to verify). While it's impossible to prove if there really is a link between the music and the deaths, one thing is for sure: Rezső Seress, the man who composed the song, definitely killed himself by jumping out of the window of a building in Budapest in 1968 (although Wikipedia says he survived the fall, only to strangle himself to death with a wire while recovering in the hospital). No wonder the twisted monsters in Rabid Rabbit chose something this gnarly for source material.
On Saturday they'll be tackling the third act of Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung opera. I know next to nothing about opera, but I can tell you this much: the third act is where everyone starts murdering each other, culminating in a climactic, all-consuming funeral pyre. Pretty heavy. Rabid Rabbit will be covering the movement that features Siegfried's death and funeral march.
The earth-moving band's rendition is not to be missed, especially after seeing how excellentGloomy Sunday turned out. The show is free, and New Capital is located at 3114 W. Carroll.
Monday, December 03, 2012
Let The Top Ten Lists Begin!
Well, this is a pretty amazing list to be a part of! And this officially kicks off the whole year end list posting thing again...
Sanford Parker's Top Ten Albums 2012:
Swans - The Seer
Killing Joke - MMXII
Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay
King Dude - Burning Daylight
Wovenhand - The Laughing Stalk
Alaric/Atriarch - Split
The Soft Moon - Zeros
A Place to Bury Strangers - Worship
Anatomy of Habit - II
AAimon - Flatliner
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/chicago/2012/11/sanford_parker.html
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