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 Proving that provocative music still comes out of the Bay Area is the new experimental album by Solar Maximum. Solar Maximum's new work has a surrealistic, Eraserhead kind of feel. The music evokes a posterized imagery in black and white with the low-frequency sound. The bass is heavy and rich, and it has the sound of belonging in a David Lynch movie soundtrack. This theme carries over even to their music videos .   "Soundtrack: event I uranian fire" brings together psychedelic rock and a gritty ambient sound that is easy to get lost in. "Uranian Fire" is music you listen to straight through. You can listen to it here on Soundcloud . It is also available to purchase on BandCamp and Amazon !

My DB tattoo  Just about a year ago we were gifted the best gift a music fan can get... new material .   I gobbled up every album teaser Bowie had to offer since announcing the new album on his birthday in January. Like a true boss, he announced a new album was coming in March right on the coat tails of his long rumored retirement. It was once again an exciting time to be a David Bowie fan.   March 8th came like Christmas morning, and I marched to the music store as if it were my sworn duty to report. It was on repeat for the next oh...month at least. I warned my friends and house guests before they came in "I'm listening to Bowie's new album a ton so yeah...just a heads up." Thankfully my friends know me and this wasn't even an issue. I guess I just like to prepare people. But my house my rules, blah blah blah.  Normally I pop out album or song reviews in less than a month, but this album literally took me a solid year to digest. Not only did w...

Joey Ramone still lives. And right now he at least feels very alive and well.  I am very excited about the release of "..Ya Know?" , Joey Ramone's new album. We haven't had any new material from our favorite Ramone in over a decade. Joey was recording an album when he died in 2001 in Easter Sunday of Lymphoma. That material was released on the album "Don't worry about me." Come to find out just a couple of years ago, Joey had a lot more recordings lying around than originally thought. For the past year, Joey's bro, who produced "...Ya Know?" said he was doing everything he could, and would get this album out even if it killed him. Well, the album was released and thankfully, Mickey is still with us. A new album from a rock star who has passed it bitter sweet. Sweet because we have all this new music to listen to, a little window into the artists mind, and all these new songs to turn into ear worms, bitter because we have the know...