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July 30, 2010

Sonoio: Alessandro Cortini’s Kickass New Project.

Filed under: music — Zack C. @ 5:00 pm

Alessandro Cortini, most widely known as being the touring keyboardist for Nine Inch Nails for four years and also known for being half of the duo named modwheelmood, has gone solo. Which is oddly close to saying the name of his new project, Sonoio, which is Italian for “it’s me”. So, it’s all one big statement of the seclusion involved. But with this seclusion and this control, as much as he was kickass in NIN and MWM, Cortini really shines.

Cortini released 4 songs from his upcoming, self-titled album on his website for free, plus a bunch of pre-order packages. They are as little as the $8 digital album and pre-order exclusive demo/outtake EP, to the mega $200 “Geek Bundle”, including a homemade synthesizer made so you can mess around with the Sonoio sounds, a limited art print of the album cover signed by Cortini, a CD signed and numbered by Cortini, the digital album, the pre-order exclusive EP, and a pre-order exclusive t-shirt. Between those two, you have 7 different packages with different combinations of all of the offerings. If you don’t think that is choices, you need to read a dictionary.

But, of course, the main point of all this is the music. Even more so, is it worth spending $200 on? The answer to that is simple: yes. Just yes.

The four tracks released by Cortini on the website for free, “Just Me”, “Suck Up Everything”, “Not Worth Remembering” and “Silence”, are nothing short of addictive. All the songs on the album are made using only one synthesizer, Cortini’s voice, and some very few and scattered extras, so they all feel connected by sound. Some of the songs feel like electro-pop music you may hear on the radio in Europe, while others are ambient tracks with calm build-ups. All the songs are full of melody and get stuck in your head abnormally fast. You’ll be finding yourself snapping and singing along to the song randomly many hours after hearing the songs because they are just that catchy. Not catchy in a bad way though, like pop-radio. It’s catchy because it’s written well and it has that feel of accessibility without being something you’ve heard a hundred times before.

Plus, Mr. Cortini is an extremely nice guy, and I don’t know about you, but when a talented musician is nice, it makes me want to buy his music even more.

There isn’t much to report on this project as the album hasn’t even come out yet, but I am recommending this to anyone. At least download the 4 songs on his website for free, because you’ll be happy you did.

March 30, 2010

Filed Under “Took Us Long Enough”: The Fragile (Complete) Is Now Up For Download!

Filed under: Random Stuff, music — Zack C. @ 6:30 pm

That’s right folks! This little bitch of a boxset, which we have been trying to get online for months, is finally up! Download it here! Click after the break to be reminded of what’s in this bad boy.

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January 23, 2010

Album Review – The Betrayed by Lostprophets

Filed under: music — Tags: , , , , , , — Zack C. @ 7:58 pm

It’s been a long time guys. The rock/rap/nu-metal/pop/whatever (and UK!) band Lostprophets are back after a few years and a disappointing album. James Oliver, the band’s live keyboardist, stated that this new album, titled The Betrayed, had “the bite that Start Something (their second album, it was the heaviest of the three) had, with the song-ability of Liberation Transmission (their third album, which was very poppy and disappointing) but personality of Thefakesoundofprogress (their first album, which was an odd mix of metal, rock, and nu-metal… which turned out amazing).” Any Lostprophets fan would be excited as all hell for this album then! That just described awesomeness! Hell, I actually had hope that they would be able to redeem themselves. Now, notice how earlier I said that they are back. I really… REALLY wanted to say “and better than ever” but that, sadly, is just not the case.

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November 24, 2009

Album Review – “Them Crooked Vultures” by Them Crooked Vultures

Filed under: music — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Zack C. @ 10:49 am

(After a long hiatus, we are back! Anyway, let’s get to brass tax.)

Don’t call them a side-project because no one in the band would agree. You could call them a supergroup if you want to, but they wouldn’t really agree with that either. Josh Homme (singer/guitarist) of Queens Of The Stone Age and Eagles Of Death Metal fame, Dave Grohl (drummer) from Foo Fighters and the almighty Nirvana, and John Paul Jones (bassist) from the legendary Led Zeppelin see their newly formed band, oddly titled “Them Crooked Vultures”, as a bunch of friends (both new and old) just jamming. You would think that this would go decently well, as Dave and Josh have worked together before on the Queens Of The Stone Age album “Songs For The Deaf” and with Josh providing one guitar part on the Foo Fighters album “In Your Honor”, but it goes WAY more then decently well. It goes “Best Album Of The Year” well.
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September 21, 2009

Let’s Try This Again… HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY “THE FRAGILE”!!!!!!

Filed under: music — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Zack C. @ 12:16 pm

That’s right kids! Today is the 10th birthday of Nine Inch Nails’ groundbreaking, double-disk album “The Fragile”! 10 years goes by so fast… just think of all the other things that have happened. 9/11 happened. The War in Iraq happened. Kanye interrupting Taylor happened…

…is all this scaring you? Living in the present with machine guns and nukes? Do you want to re-live the good ol’ days of 1999 with Pwnage Pickle and Nine Inch Nails?

Well, then do we have a giant surprise for you!

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September 9, 2009

FLASHBACK! – The Fragile (Complete)

Filed under: music — Tags: , , , , , , , — Zack C. @ 2:43 pm

So, you guys remember that “The Fragile (Complete)” thing I made a while ago? With the download link that didn’t work? Well, SURPRISE! I’m revamping it so when you get it, it’s gonna be even BETTER. Hit the break to get some new info.

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August 9, 2009

The Greatest Bands You’ve Never Heard Of: Mindless Self Indulgence

Filed under: music — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — Zack C. @ 6:30 pm

Maybe you have heard of them, maybe you haven’t, but one thing is for sure: Mindless Self Indulgence is pretty much the most original band ever. Yeah… the guy who’s favorite band is Nine Inch Nails just said Mindless Self Indulgence is more original. Am I just saying this as a marketing ploy? Nope. It’s the truth. And with all this in mind, I am saying that they might also be the greatest band ever. If you want to know more, hit the read more button at the bottom. You know you want to.

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July 20, 2009

A Random Nine Inch Nails Remix I Made.

Filed under: music — Tags: , , , — Zack C. @ 8:08 pm

I had a friend ask for this, so I thought I might as well post it. It’s called “breath – longmix” and it’s a remix of the Nine Inch Nails song “The Greater Good”. It clocks in at just about 15 minutes. Just right click on the link and hit “save target as” to download it. I am just putting it up here before I put it on remix.nin.com.

LINKY!

July 10, 2009

Billy Talent Wants To Give YOU An Inside Look At Their New Album And A Chance To Meet The Band!

Filed under: music — Tags: , , , , , , , , — Zack C. @ 3:22 pm

You read that, right? A widget was just released that gives you a bunch of cool and EXCLUSIVE videos and more about the making of “III” by Canada’s favorite punk band, Billy Talent. But you were here for the prizes right? Well, if you click that “Fan My Band” button, you can get points to rack up. First you have to make your own widget using the link from this widget, but then you can get clicking and have others click your link. The more points you get, the higher the level you get, THE MORE STUFF YOU WIN! The top prize is a chance to meet the band backstage at one of their shows. HOW COOL IS THAT?! So get clicking!

——–> THA WIDGET IS HERE! <——-

June 25, 2009

Michael Jackson, The King Of Pop, Is Dead.

Filed under: music — Tags: , , , , , — Zack C. @ 2:21 pm

That’s right boys and girls, Michael “I like to dangle babies off of high ledges and rape little children” Jackson has died today, June 25, 2009, the same day as actress Farrah Fawcett, and the same week as late-night sidekick Ed McMahon. He was 50. More info after the break.

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