Thomas Fec is the frontman of Black Moth Super Rainbow, and also creates music under the name Tobacco. Tobacco just released it’s fourth full-length album, Sweatbox Dynasty, which warps 80’s electronic synthesizers into a unique infectious dissonance. Sweatbox succeeds in going into even deeper and darker place sound than previous Tobacco albums, which might be…
What happened at Houston Open Air Fest? The black storm clouds rolling in over the Houston skyline may have made for a knarly metal music video but the ominous and uncooperative weather ended up putting the kibosh on Houston Open Air Fest instead. In its first year of putting on Open Air in Houston,…
Blood Pumps comfortably blends smart song craft with interesting, accessible angularity; subtle counter points rhythmically and melodically with intelligent, almost-too-smart-for-pop lyricism delivered with Bill Stevenson’s elastic tenor. The marriage of Black Joe Lewis’ gut bucket guitar with Mike Brinley’s dry-cleaned guitar stands in direct contrast to the washed out reverb and effects heavy sound of…
In the four years since the release of 2012’s Crystal Castles (III), the electronic duo has experienced some tectonic changes leading up to their latest and much-anticipated LP release Amnesty (I). For any Crystal Castles fan potentially living under a rock -Alice Glass left the group in October of 2014, citing creative differences and preservation of artistic…