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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

New Releases / Band Coyote Calls

Posted by Jason Baxter on Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:30 PM

It’s ‘Ween Week, sheeple! Not Ween as in the joke band, ‘Ween as in Hall-o’-Ween, All Hallows Eve, the Night of the Witch (House). Where my Pagan Party People at?

To celebrate, I’m trying to narrow my blogging focus to “spooky music” for the next five days. Naturally, there’s a bunch of dark, holiday-appropriate material either on the way or out now (Avey Tare’s “swamp hell” solo LP Down There hits store shelves today). Case in point, the latest from Los Angeles’ Tleilaxu Music Machine (don’t ask me to pronounce that for you).

I saw The Tleilaxu Music Machine perform at the Smell in LA over a year ago, and it was kind of a trip. Dude has that demon-Rasta Rob Zombie undead/dread look going on, and his hard-edged dance grooves are pretty fun in their own way, as if Zombie had drunkenly crashed his “Dragula” into a club with some actual taste. In TTMM’s music, the guttural snarls and howls of ‘90s dreck genres like nü-metal are transposed over frenetic house beats—a little jukey, a little janky, totally freaky-deaky.

TTMM’s new seven-track Diamond Eye Coyote album is up on Bandcamp now, in the en vogue name-your-price model. The download includes two bonus tracks, album art, and an insert with lyrics and artwork. The inclusion of the former is crucial, as the exact nature and content of lyrics tends to get overshadowed by the music’s roiling, pentagrammatical fervor. Here’s an example:

“Everyone needs some affirmation, you know / everyone needs some positivity / come on and give it to me”

Clearly, DARK STUFF.

Also, this album makes me wonder: do “evil raves” actually exist, or is that just a Lost Boys thing?

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Ween isn't a joke band. Ween is fucking serious.

Posted by A Fucking Wizard on October 26, 2010 at 5:41 PM

WEEN is one of the greatest rock bands ever. don't play yourself. check out their live from chicago DVD to see how silly you sound when you call them a joke band.

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