Guest Music Bloggers

This is the first blog entry from James and it’s nice to be here. The following is my bio just to get started with. I will be posting some audio content soon but for now you can hear my work or contact me through the lovely websites at www.esromrecords.com or my own site www.jameshariman.com. I [...]

For Immediate Release Atlanta’s GroovProject Releases Sophomore Recording ATLANTA, GA – GroovProject, a Atlanta based soul-jazz band, has released their sophomore recording entitled, The Life, The Loss, The Love. The effort features 14 songs, eight of which were written by the band’s director and drummer, Donovan “Groov” Henderson. The Life, The Loss, The Love is [...]

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Strikes Back will be playing live at Papa Ray’s on January 11th, 2008. It is the first show of the year for the band and will be one of the few shows booked locally while the band completes its first full length album..”Have Fun With Your Dead Uncle” which is set to release in 2008. [...]

http://dievantile.com/ Di Evantile – Inertia My immediate response to “Inertia” was, “Oh no, digital pitter-patter, this is going to be boring; all the sampled midi stuff is not really music anyway.” Then, right about the time I decided to put aside my often stuffy, somewhat elitist attitudes regarding the conventions of musical expression – you [...]

The Integral hails from the wonderful city of Montreal, Canada and they deliver eleven “All killer, No filler” tracks on their album “002”. Their brand of progressive-tinged heavy yet very melodic rock sets them head and shoulders above the hordes of modern rock bands strutting their stuff on commercial radio and MTV. That’s not to [...]

The first album of Dead Beat Project is finally available. Described as an ‘An eclectic mix of industrial, dark ambient, neo-classical and melancholy electronica…’ The album comprises the following tracks: 1 Last Faith 2 Silent Stream 3 A Split in the Shell (Haunting Fluid) 4 This Feeling 5 Alive and Living 6 In Vitam Aeternam [...]

Olivier Goyet, DJ and clavierist investing his know-how within the Birmingham based ultra-doom outfit ‘Esoteric’, IS Dead Beat Project. This “band” took shape during the summer of 2005 while on tour in Europe, writing some possible ideas of new compositions for Esoteric, but which eventually could not fit with the band and were associated together [...]

How could you not become immediately intrigued with a name like Red Plastic Buddha? The cover is like psychedelic 60s period poster artwork and the music falls right in line. When you look at the fact there are only six tracks, your first thought is it must be an EP, wrong! We are reaching back [...]

Iain Crummie (aka Crum, Crumbalina, Crumbobsquarepants, Crumblestiltskin …) is a singer/songwriter based up in Newcastle. Originally appearing under the pseudonym ‘The Reckless General’, but he quickly realised that people could remember the name Crummie far more easily than half a paragraph, so he wandered back to his birth name, however silly it may sound. After [...]