Bongripper & Winters in Osaka - Meat Ditch
Restraint demolishes this release, an unfortunate outcome from these Chicagoans. A successful collaboration would embellish the magnitude of both Bongripper and Winters in Osaka. But Meat Ditch lacks the heavy instrumental fallouts of the former and the boisterous noise infusions of the latter, ultimately seducing eardrums into unconsciousness. Meat Ditch denies these expectations in a...
Farflung go near, then far
Space/stoner rockers Farflung are playing rare live dates in LA (The Echo, 3/19) and SF (Bottom of the Hill, 3/20) before undertaking a week-long tour of central Europe, including the Roadburn Festival. (See dates here.) Stoner rock all sounds the same to me – see this great interview with Roadrunner A&R; exec Monte Conner on...