WMUC rocks fall 2008

First blog of the semester! Let's restart this thang with some teasers about what's to come:

-Hanson

-dances

-free tickets

-stickits (or, stickers)

woo!

The Sword: Gods of the Earth album review

Artist: The Sword

Album: Gods of the Earth

Label: Kemado Records

Review: Hot off the heels of their 2006 cd, Age of Winters, The Sword releases another heavy doom-ridden cd, Gods of the Earth. The intro track without vocals, The Sundering, offers a glimpse of what the Winters contains, heavy, doom ridden and intense riffs. You can just feel the aggression on How Heavy This Axe conjured in the heavy driving riffs and the passionate vocals. The rest of Winters continues in an intensity that would make any fan of heavy and doom metal proud. In Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians the passion and heavy fast driven riffs only continue. On the track following Ancient, To Take the Black, the intensity slows down briefly but offers a nice contrast. The Black River and a nice thundering riff. If on The Age of Winters you could hear the Sabbath influence, Gods of the Earth not only expands on their earlier sound, but amplifies it and gives them their own clearly distinct sound. On Gods of the Earth, The Sword show they are a force to be reckoned with in metal. Metalheads of all varieties should give this album a chance.

Play These: 3, 5, 6, 9

FCC: Clean

Who Reviewed it: Daniel

New Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks record!

On Tuesday, the new Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks record was released. I wrote up a brief review of the record for the station and wanted to share it.

Artist: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Album: Real Emotional Trash
Label: Matador

Remember the scene in the first Back to the Future movie where Marty McFly dresses as a space alien in 1955 to tell his father to get with his mother? Well, a similar thing happened to Steve Malkmus before this record was made except it was the present day and it was a space alien hybrid of Doug Martsch and Neil Young saying “Stephen! Use all the guitar chops you’ve had all along and held back to be a slacker-rocker in the 90’s with Pavement and use it in great excess making songs that should only be 4 minutes long tops into obnoxious attempts at jam-rock masterpieces that clock in at 8-10 minutes!”…All of this being said, this record has something great to offer almost every track, but I picked the ones that actually end at a decent time and don’t overdo it.

Hot Traxxx: 1, 3, 7

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Also, there's been some very recent talk about a Pavement reunion (besides the Pitchfork Spiral Stairs interview). Yes, it's true, it has even got the attention of Entertainment Weekly?!

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