What’s so strange about the Strange Boys? For one, they play that menacing electroclash and wear all that greasepaint, right? Not them? Oh, yeah… we mean they’re the guys who made that chant/house record Sounds of Deep Friars? Nope? Shucks, strike two. Well they must be big into Kabbalah then, right? No again? Damn...
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“Murder” – New Order “Cheated Hearts” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Time of the Preacher” – Johnny Cash “Heartbreaker” – Girls “Red Right Hand” – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “Cry to Me” – Solomon Burke “Evil” – Derek & the Dominoes “My Beautiful Bride” – The Handsome Family “Waiting Around to Die” –...
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Perhaps it’s simply all the forbidding bedtime stories our gypsy grandmother has been telling us lately (honestly Mami, if it’s not Baba Yaga it’s Jorinde und Joringel), but GUTFIRE! can’t help sensing a spine-tingling otherworldliness about Zola Jesus (aka Nika Roza Danilova). Abetted by her evocative moniker, her nouveau gothic beauty, and the mesmerizing...
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The name Deathline conjures a number of familiar images: the ominous wrinkle our astrologist found in our palm, that final obstacle course challenge over the gorge at the company picnic, the phone number of that mortician we used to date… but of particular note, that of one of the most darkly brilliant bands operating...
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GUTFIRE! readers know what they want and aren’t afraid to ask for it. At the top of that list, right next to a great tasting, less filling whisky (Liquor-Ish is in laboratory testing right now) is more cool-as-heck British rock bands. You’ve spoken, we’ve listened, and Slow Club’s done the rest. Hailing from Sheffield,...
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Making the nastiest of modern funk music is serious business, and, thankfully, Chromeo takes its job dead seriously. That’s not to say that these mighty MC’s from Montreal – entering concert stages as they do to syncopated incantations of the band’s name, and taking their positions behind keyboards supported by replicas of shapely female...
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Where it began, I can’t begin to knowin’.Without a home, but not without a star,I learned how to laugh and I learned how to cry,Weeping like a willow.I’ve been misunderstood for all of my lifeBut what they’re sayin’, girl, just cuts like a knifeTwo floors above the butcher, first door on the right.And I’m...
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The Raveonettes’ music can be a study in contrasts: impassively menacing and darkly seductive; recklessly noisy and meticulously poppy; with a distinct reverence for their predecessors and a keen eye on today’s avant garde. But while it may be difficult to tag the offerings of the Danish duo (Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo)...
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When it comes to the essentials, there’s no substitute for quality. That’s why when GUTFIRE!… ahem… misplaces the company helicopter, we speed dial the Sikorsky boys for their latest fully armed Black Hawk Civilian model (what’s nice is the mahogany interior paneling). When we’re in dire straits for a new batch of team tuxedos,...
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Given the otherworldly, gossamer grandeur of his sound, Active Child (multi-talented musician Pat Grossi) can’t seem to escape the aura of the divine. Which could be worse. With a handful of critically-acclaimed singles such as “I’m in Your Church at Night” and “She Was a Vision,” a European tour, and his Curtis Lane EP...
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