Friday, March 09, 2007

RECENT HACKERY

HACRIDE Feat. OJOS DE BRUJO
"Zambra"
from Amoeba (Listenable)
It's like France came together as a nation and decided to once and for all salvage their rock rep. Between the avant-garde black metallers (Blut Aus Nord, Deathspell Omega, Antaeus), the prog freaks (Fairyland), and the new post-Meshuggah art-thrashers (Gojira), France is kicking out a disturbing amount of high-quality jams. [Read the rest here.]

ANAL CUNT
With Midnight, Schnauzer, and Xrin Arms. Sunday, March 11, at the Grog Shop.
Some bands are best experienced live; others are best experienced on record. The ideal Anal Cunt experience is standing in a record store with a friend, flipping through the band's CDs and laughing out loud at the track titles. That's because hearing the music that corresponds to such songs as "Ha Ha, Your Wife Left You," "I Like Drugs and Child Abuse," "I Ate Your Horse," "I Got an Office Job for the Sole Purpose of Sexually Harassing Women," and the probably inevitable "Being Ignorant Is Awesome" is one of life's more disappointing experiences. [Read the rest here.]

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