The auteurs of The Asylum are Roger Cormen is at it again. Are you ready for Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda?
Coming August 2nd to (of course) The SyFy Channel.
At this point I’m thinking I ought to file a trademark for my Slothacconda idea…
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Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda
Sunday, June 22nd, 2014Shoegazer Sunday: SPC ECO’s “Fallen Stars”
Sunday, June 22nd, 2014For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s another shot of SPC ECO with “Fallen Stars.”
This is off their new album Sirens and Satellites, which I liked enough to buy. The overall sound features very pretty, very spacey background synthesizer washes with poppy tunes and understated female vocals somewhere between Florence + The Machine, Sarah McLachlan, and Tori Amos, with a dash of Yoko Kanno. The emotional feel of the album is a lot like Malory’s Outerbeats.
Pixels…
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014OK, this was moderately amusing, especially the chicken…
Shoegazer Sunday: Bertoia’s “Snow Slide”
Sunday, June 15th, 2014How long has it been since I featured an obscure Japanese Shoegazer band? Well that’s too long!
Here’s Bertoia‘s “Snow Slide,” which proves once again that low-rent costumes and dreamquest fantasies are a fine hook to hang a music video on…
A Nice Cover of Genesis’s “Entangled”
Friday, May 30th, 2014Stumbled across this cover of Genesis’s “Entangled” off Trick of the Tail by a band called Hydria while looking for something else, and liked it enough to put it up.
It’s a crunchier, almost power ballad version, which actually works quite well for the song.
Shoegazer Sunday: Civic’s “Innocent”
Sunday, May 25th, 2014Here’s “Innocent,” another track of Japanese band Civic‘s debut album Toilet Monster.
Civic gets compared to Supercar, and while I can hear the resemblance, Civic has a rawer sound, like a garage band who just started meshing a few weeks ago. I like that high energy rawness, and some have labeled Civic “Noise Pop,” if that’s a real thing.
I’ve found and ordered Toilet Monster from a domestic source, and I hope to have a more detailed report if/when it comes in.
Shoegazer Sunday: Jesus on Heroine’s “Jesus on Heroin”
Sunday, May 11th, 2014Honestly, the only thing I know about Jesus on Heroine is that they have a Facebook page. Here’s the slightly differently spelled “Jesus on Heroin.” It’s probably best I didn’t play this on easter Sunday…
Mousetrap Madness
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014Back in the dim mists of time, they used to demonstrate the speed of atomic chain reactions with arrays of mousetraps. Now someone has done the same experiment, with the added benefit of a high speed camera:
Shoegazer Sunday: Mercury Rev’s “You’re My Queen”
Sunday, April 27th, 2014Mercury Rev is an American ban that got dubbed Shoegaze early on, then evolved in a more pop direction. “You’re My Queen” is actually one of their more pop numbers, but I think it fits nicely into the shoegaze category somewhere between Black Tambourine and Polyphonic Spree.
Shoegazer Sunday: Spokraket’s “Just Go Spit Out Another Lie”
Sunday, April 20th, 2014Danish band Spokraket offers garage band psychedelic surf rock married to Here Come the Warm Jets-era Brain Eno, offering plenty of distorted guitars and end up sounding like a low-fi version of Black Tambourine. “Just Go Spit Out Another Lie” is pretty much a steady state Shoegaze song: Like the riff and groove? Just wait around and there will be plenty more of it coming down the pike…
And here’s an earlier live version of it, when it was called “(Drifting Away In) Solitary Dreams”