STEAL YR FACE: TREMORO TARANTURA
This rarely happens. We first circulated this video amongst our reviewers and had reactions of shock, puke, and praise. One of our writers commented, "...the way it is filmed reminds me of that gruesome subway scene in Irreversible. You...
Vinyl sales are on the rise in Oslo; I’ve read as much as 30 times the sales in the last 5 years. Kind of like the sale of microbrew beer, quality in taste, look...
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in BS, Interviews (2013 / 15)
I first discovered Noxagt right around the time I was writing on French philosopher Deleuze and music. In my overly ambitious head, I was hell bent on trying to find a practical way to...
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in BS, Interviews (2013 / 14)
New Norwegian punk rock-sensation The Good, The Bad, and The Zugly have been playing in the Oslo underground for some years and released several 7” on various small labels. (According to the band, this has...
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in BS, Interviews (2013 / 13)
Our New Year's resolution at BS was to act more grown-up. Unfortunately, at hearing the opportunity of an exclusive interview with one of our idols, we collectively lost it and peed our pants.
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in BS, Interviews (2013 / 12)
It's an age old saying- never go into business with your friends. Bands, so oft naively started with the belief that a shared love for music will transcend common business quibbles. But in rock'n'roll, if it's...
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in BS, Interviews (2012 / 11)
Oslo Scene Fixtures: Kenneth Storkås (33) Both on stage and behind the control panel: Kenneth Storkås is an important piece in the Oslo punk rock machinery. From his home base of Endless Tinnitus studios...
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in BS, Interviews (2012 / 11)
Hailing from Hokkaido, Shinji Masuko, known for his band DMBQ, and more recently as member of the seminal Osaka-based collective Boredoms, has had a large hand in changing the face of Japanese music. With...
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in BS, Interviews (2012 / 10)
Edz note: You've been going to gigs for as long as most. To the point that you actually start counting backwards as you gaze at the newbie 20yr olds... "Damn! Those kids were 8 years old when I first...
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in BS, Interviews (2012 / 09)
Calling Dustin a school buddy doesn't quite capture it. We attended together, what some would attempt to describe as, a five dimensional time warp that'll remain forever subdiluted in memory. From elementary through to...
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in BS, Interviews (2012 / 08)
Not only as a man who doesn't give out too many interviews, David Pajo's credited with collaborating with some of the best in America's long and intricate underground history. From fellow Louisville native Bonnie...
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in BS, Interviews (2012 / 07)
While most black metal guys spend hours staring at themselves in the mirror, brewing wine, parasitizing on their girlfriends, and buying make-up at H&M- others actually work. Probably one of the most ambitious guys...
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in BS, Interviews in Columns, Let the Streets Burn (2012 / 06)
Belle & Sebastian's long-time guitarist and songwriter, Stevie Jackson, released his first solo album last year online, (I Can't Get No) Stevie Jackson. As the album officially hit stores in May, he's been a...
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in BS, Interviews (2012 / 06)
Having amassed over 400 releases during his 40+ years ploughing the sometimes dark and desolate highways of bedroom lo-fi experiments, a sun finally rose and illuminated the work that R. Stevie Moore has been...
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in BS, Interviews (2012 / 06)
Genius. A word not thrown around easily. Let alone by Bad Sounds. But genius indeed. A man who has lived by his predilection for noize and chaos, shone in the face of various guises...
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in BS, Interviews (2012 / 05)
With artwork that triggers flashbacks to doing acid for the first time and staring at a wall for 8 hours watching Japanese cartoon characters pass you by with blinking sirens and the constant feeling...
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in BS, Interviews (2012 / 04)
Melt Banana have been noise aesthetes spanning the last two decades, with benchmarks at each turn of their records, disseminating 7"s and splits on over 20 different labels, and been slapdashed in aplenty "sounds...
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in BS, Interviews (2012 / 04)