One of the new bands that I’ve been listening to lately is The Cruxshadows. Thou a lot of people will call them Goth The Gruxshadows sound seems to pull more of it’s influence from the dark wave and syth pop music without going to mainstream. This another band that I found out by reading John [...]

I’ve been reading John Ringo again and the one thing that always makes his books interesting and unique is the inclusion of musical reference. In the Polsen war books the ACS corps almost always went in to battle with music blaring. At the end of the last book I read Unto the Breach he in [...]

Well the night time at Maker Faire 2008 not only brought fire but also Abney Park. If you’ve read my blog before your sure to know that I am a big Abney Park fan, and they are 50% to 70% of the reason I went to Maker Faire.

One of the podcasts I listen to is DJ IZ’s weekly Plagued By Rhythm, a mix of industrial, EBM, futurepop, and synthpop. It’s the kind stuff that I like but can’t get on any of the local radio stations. If you want to check it out he has a extensive arcive over at his site [...]

Just found out one of my favorite music groups, Portishead, is releasing a new album at the end of this month. “Third” is the, well, the third studio album by the group and their first in almost 10 years. Portishead sound is kind of hard to describe, it’s a dark moodie trip-hop sound with [...]

Magnatune has been around for a while now and while I’ve know about them and have even bought a couple of albums, but it’s been a while since I’ve been to the site. I got reminded about them while listen to the Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code podcast. Mangatune is something unique in the music [...]