#R.I.P. Dead End LP

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Top 60 Darkwave and Industrial Albums and EPs of 2020

1: E U P H O R I A- Future Faces

2: Monument- Molchat Doma

3: Curtains- Truth Coming Out of Her Well

4: At The Stake- Rosegarden Funeral Party

5: Gathering Swans- Choir Boy

6: Die Notwendigkeit der Notwendigkeit- PAAR

7: Peaceful As Hell- Black Dresses

8: LP II- Linera Aspera

9:  Kogarashi Tales- 9ToEarth

10: Stray- Bambara

11: Dead Kids, R.I.P. City- Soft Kill

12: Deception Island II- NNHMH

13: Killed By Roses- NAKED

14: REINCARNATED- REIN

15: Thin Skies- Bootblacks

16: Apathy- Astrophysics

17: Heavenly Rhythms for the Uninitiated- True Body

18: Don’t Run From The Fire- Minuet Machine

19: Monsters- Empathy Test

20: Vicious Pastimes- House Of Harm

21: The Tacks (s/t)- The Tacks

22: Methods Of Dreaming- Hawksmoor

23: After The Rehearsal- Jackson VanHorn

24: Coping Mechanisms- Ky Voss

25: Predestiny- Mareux

26: Extinction- Zanias

27: The Flesh Of The World- Uboa

28: 20 Years- Sure

29: Silent Places- Houses of Heaven

30: Limpwristed- Picturesque Ruins

31: Bodies- hørd

32: New Signs of Life- Death Bells

33: Boys- Cower

34: Shadow- Fearing

35: RIki (s/t)- Riki

36: You Want It Real- Lie

37: Eons- Psychic Guilt 

38: Nostalgia- Spectres

39: Lilith- ZAH

40: The Birdwatcher’s Guide to Atrocity- Seeming

41: Abstraction- Schonwald

42: Second Seduction- Panic Priest

43: The Night We Raise- Korine

44: Chimeres- Blind Delon

45: Zone- The Mall

46: Sometimes It Feels Like Chains- Live For You

47: Deep Wave Data Dark Web Daemons- Trevor Something

48: Visions of Bodies Being Burned- clipping.

49: Pandora’s Box- Bari Hari

50: Colours- The Secret French Postcards

51: Zeher- Aurat

52: Modern Anguish- Visceral Anatomy

53: Profess- Woven In

54: End Credit- Ghost Cop

55: Pleiades- Velvet Velour

56: Gain- New Today

57: Faraway Neighbor (s/t)- Faraway Neighbor

58: The Upstairs Museum- Swan Wash

59: /// 1- Dove Armitage

60: Blood Pact (s/t)- Blood Pact 

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Top Several Hundred Records of 2020

My Top 11: 1. Slum Of Legs - Slum Of Legs (Harbinger Sound / Spurge) 2. Oily Boys - Cro Memory Grin (Cool Death) 3. Model Home - SE (Future Times) 4. Valentina Magaletti & Marlene Ribeiro - due matte (Commando Vanessa / Horn of Plenty <O) 5. Kris & Tavi - Kris & Tavi (Misophonia) 6. Still House Plants - Fast Edit (Bison) 7. None - Khneï Khneï Thnacapata Thnacapata (Unknown Precept) 8. Rychlicki / Kostkiewicz - Zapis (Absolute Fiction / Maternal Voice) 9. Rosso Polare - Lettere Animali (Klammklang) 10. Patois Counselors - The Optimal Seat (ever/never) 11. Impatiens - Scene At The River (Altered States) Favorite 20 That Weren't My Top 11: 12. Irma Vep - Embarrassed Landscape (Gringo) 13. FRKSE - Desecration Anxiety II (Iron Lung) 14. Merula - Sleep (Men Scryfa) 15. Al Karpenter - If We Can't Dream, They Can't Sleep!! (ever/never) 16. BbyMutha - Muthaland (the muthaboard) 17. Pose Dia - Front View (Bureau B) 18. SIR E.U - Midnight Train To Velvet (Self-Released) 19. Nightshift - Nightshift (Cusp) 20. Massicot - Kratt (Harbinger Sound / Spurge / Bongo Joe / Red Wig) 21. Alessandra Novaga - I Should Have Been a Gardener (Die Schachtel) 22. Zeroh - BLQLYTE (Leaving) 23. Swallow - Body Horror (ANA) 24. Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin - FlySiifu's (Lex) 25. Balans - Sam pravm (Kapa) 26. Bruch - The Fool (Trost / Cut Surface) 27. P22 - Human Snake (Post Present Medium) 28. ovrkast. - Try Again (do more.) 29. Chapelier Fou - Méridiens (Ici d'ailleurs) 30. Schisms - Speech Copy Rap Master (Fort Evil Fruit) 31. Új Bála - How the Cookie Crumbles (Czaszka Records)

Mozo Mozo - Mozo Mozo (Epileptic Media) Orion Moustache - EP02 (Noorden) Mentira! - Mentira! (Harbinger Sound) Leyden Jars - Gone (Outer Reaches) Last Call At Nightowls - Ask the Dust (Subsound) Gaffer - Gaffer (Helta Skelta) Inturist (Интурист) - Action! (Incompetence) Директор Всего (The CEO of Everything) - Самый занятой гражданин (Doing Great Music) Christos Chondropoulos - On Nature (12th Isle) Uptown XO - Culture Over Corporate  (1 Force United) Lichen Gumbo - Altered Village (Ikuisuus ‎/ Jumatsuga ‎/ Lal Lal Lal) The Worms - Back To The Bog (Hidden Bay) Kneeling In Piss - Music for Peasants EP (Anyway) Taste - Rope In The Closet ( If Society / Half Bear Half Cat / Roge Records) Flogging A Dead One Horse Town - Old Scum EP (MUZAI) BIG $ILKY (Psalm One & Angel Davanport) - BIG $ILKY Vol. 2 (Self-Released) Dame Area - La Soluzione É Una (Màgia Roja / B.F.E Records) Enir Da - Silence (Too Soon Tapes) Obnox - Savage Raygun (ever/never) Mike Cooper - Playing With Water (Room40) Nape Neck - Nape Neck (Self-Released) S.U.V. - Neoliberal Folk Songs II (Otomatik Muziek) Patrick Shiroishi - Descension (Thin Wrist Recordings) Pink Siifu - NEGRO (Self-Released) En Attendant Ana - Juillet (Trouble In Mind) Sergei Demin - Not Music Of The Day (Klammklang) Brandy - The Gift Of Repetition (Total Punk) Nyx Nótt - Aux Pieds De La Nuit (Melodic) Bearer - Precincts (ANA) Norms - Háború és fű (Mindig Otthon Punk Discs) Vertical Slump - Oubliette (Blank Editions) Lau Nau - Själö (With Sound Environments by Janne Laine) (Fonal) Model Home - One Year (Disciples) WOW - Falene (Maple Death) Santa Sprees - Sum Total of Insolent Blank (Leapantique) Edd Sanders - Sun Bleached & Hollow (Cadmus) Charlemagne Palestine - Ffroggssichorddd (Staalplaat) Loopsel - Loopsel EP (Mammas Mysteriska Julebox) Kuupuu - Plz Tell Me (KRAAK) (I forget whether I put the oriinal version of this on my year-end list last year. Here it is again though) QQ - Vanguard Youth (Skrot Up) DJ Speedsick - (All Releases) Armand Hammer - Shrines (Backwoodz Studioz) Lewsberg - In This House (12XU) Ubiquitous Meh! - Fecund With Love (Buried Treasure / Damnsonic) Schulverweis - Suppe (Neoprimitive) La Chasse - Meretrix ∕ Doloris (Donnez-moi du feu) No - Vol. 1 (Faustian Haus) David Nance - Staunch Honey (Trouble In Mind) Hun Bed - Brood I (Het Generiek) Młody Kotek & Niemy Dotyk - New Age Speedball (Enjoy Life) Aurat - Zeher (Etang Brulant) Addict Ameba - Panamor (Black Sweat) Sunset Flips - Between Two Sheds (Altered States) Small Bills (E L U C I D & The Lasso) - Don't Play It Straight (Mello Music Group) Nail Club - Collected Methods (Hot Releases) Maximum Ernst - Time Delay Safe (ever/never) Tim Hicks X The Dirty Church - Bullets (Humble Monarch) Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon - GOD Body & Soul Side B (Self-Released) Red Bennies - Futurist, Nihilist Post-Rock, Cyberpunk, Anti-Humanist Music (Chthonic) Tsap - Flickering Lyghte In Campsite (Altered States) Latex Cop - Privacy Policy (Cadmus Tape) Ka - Descendants of Cain (Iron Works) Violent Quand On Aime - The Movie Star (Simple Music Experience) Flaner Klespoza - Przygody i tajemnice (Nagrania Somnambuliczne) Budokan Boys - So Broken Up About You Dying (ever/never) Datblygu - Cwm Gwagle (Ankstmusik) Pays P. - Pays P. (Gravity Music) Somaticae - Amesys (In Paradisum) Kipp Stone - Homme (Self-Released) Sada Baby - Bartier Bounty 2 Tribalism3 - April on Mars (Collectif Coax) Men With Secrets - Psycho Romance and Other Spooky Ballads (The Bunker) Brainbeau - Infinite Ways (Good Samaritron) Landowner - Consultant (Born Yesterday) Jay & Yuta - Condemned Compilations (Research) Machine Woman - Dj Dolfin Snare 808 Machine (Take Away Jazz) Slowburn - Folketro (momeatdadrecords) Twinkle³ - Minor Planets (Marionette) Unglee Izi - notice & initiation au monde alterné T.1 (Lost Dogs Entertainment) Sick Urge - Structures of Domination (Puukotus-Levyt) German Army - Pulling at Principles (Flophouse) NAPPYNAPPA - IFEELJUSTLYKTHEIRART (Bad Taste) Social Stomach + Body Shame - Split (Bento) Pacific Yew - Squeeze Demo (Hot Record Societe) Isabella - Magnetica (Ehse) Trrma´ & Charlemagne Palestine - Sssseegmmeentss Frrooom Baaari (Jazz Engine) Astute Palate - Astute Palate (Petty Bunco / Eternal Soundcheck) Axel Larsen - Les Éléments Du Crime (Macadam Mambo) Post Spiderhole Ensemble - False Alarms and Excess Baggage (Kitchen Leg) Cash Kidd - No Socks Senyawa & Stephen O'Malley - Bima Sakti (iDEAL Recordings) Henny L.O. - Sages (Mutant Academy) True Sons Of Thunder - It Was Then That (Total Punk) Tim Gick - Não Há Laranja ∕ Scrying Glass Eye (Working Man Lay Down) Junk Magic - Compass Confusion (Pyroclastic Records) Person of Interest - All Tomorrows Parties (Exotic Dance) Pumice - Table (Soft Abuse) Max Nordile - Building A Better Void (Gilgongo) Mrs. Dink + Magnum Opus - Mrs. Dink / / Magnum Opus  (Soil) Swamp Harbour (Stinkin Slumrok, Bisk, & Sam Zircon) - Swamp Harbour (Blah) Camden Malik - Understand Me (10k) Heckadecimal - Critters (Kajunga) Geld - Beyond The Floor (Iron Lung) Drakeo the Ruler & JoogSzn - Thank You For Using GTL Senketsu No Night Club - 沈丁花 (Signora Ward) Jef Mertens - NO AMP (291) Tomaga ‎– Extended Play 2 (Self-Released) [R.I.P. Tom Relleen] Boldy James & The Alchemist - The Price Of Tea In China Shoreline Mafia - Mafia Bidness pisse - LP (Phantom / Harbinger Sound) Reymour ‎– Sarabande A Deux (CAF?) Goldblum - Goldblum (Het Generiek) Phil Struck - Schleswig-Holstein Aufnahmen (Séance Centre) Maths Balance Volumes - A Year Closer (Penultimate Press) Body Double - Milk Fed (Zum Audio) Low Flung - Oil in the Mangroves (Bedroom Suck) Chris Crack - White People Love Algorithms (New Deal Collectives) Krypton 81 - Tranquility Base EP (Dalmata Daniel) Akai Solo - Ride Alone, Fly Together (Break All Records) Gad Whip - Fanimal Arms (Gad Whip Recordings) Tygapaw - Get Free (NAAFI) Pamela_ and her sons - Pink Room (Self-Released) Etceteral - Ama-Gi (Kapa Records) Ghostie - Self Hate Wraith (Self-Released) Young Nudy - Anyways DrxQuinnx & Chase Baby - God Gooch & Blue Jesus EP (Bit Tape) Museum Of No Art - Museum of No Art (Séance Centre) Terrible Signal - The Window (Heart of the Rat) Bambi OFS - Yakka (B.F.E Records / Subsist) Zarabatana - Cum Raio (tsss tapes) Soberin Exx - Normal Islands (Liquid Library) Sylvain Darrifourcq, Manuel Hermia, Valentin Ceccaldi - Kaiju Eats Cheeseburgers (Full Rhizome / Hector) Günter Schlienz + Jeans Beast - Split (Econore) Hasufel - Lamentations of the Foul High Priest (So Called Hell) Delphine Dora - L’Inattingible (Three:four / Meakusma) Suburban Cracked Collective - Swimming Amongst The Dregs (A Colourful Storm) Military Genius - Deep Web (Unheard Of Hope) Mesa Of The Lost Women - Les Tables Noires (Specific) Ferocious (Bill Direen, Mark Williams, & Johannes Contag) - Ferocious (Rattle) Domestiques - Vol. 1 (Glass Modern) gogoj a.k.a Sheng Jie - oviparity (Maybe Noise / WV Sorcerer Productions) Midnight Mines - Live From The Mystery Plane (Independent Woman) Muro - Pacificar (Beach Impediment) Satan - Toutes Ces Horreurs (Jungle Khôl / Throatruiner) Scarlatine - Mimosa (Le Syndicat Des Scorpions) Vanligt Folk - Allt E'nte (Kess Kill) VOLE - Dej Bůh Pěstí (Stoned To Death) Upsidedown Flames - Creeps At Shows EP (Fuck Yoga) Zurich Cloud Motors - Do More Than Deconstruct​-​o (Zazen Tapes)

Buncha other records

Sweeping Promises record wasn't that good though. But if you guys like it when people take singing seriously, you should check out some of this music called "R&B"

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Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By ALBUM REVIEW

Another surprise Eminem album came out last Friday. His last album, Kamikaze was a surprise release and it mostly consisted of Eminem responding to criticism of his previous album, Revival. Revival received the criticism it deserved because it was really bad but Em wasn’t having it. Since Kamikaze, Eminem has stayed on the scene dropping MGK diss tracks, beefing with Nick Cannon, and appearing on albums from Logic, Fat Joe and Griselda, who dropped their debut on Shady Records in November. Kamikaze was mainly a response to his critics but it still wasn’t received that well even though it was much better than Revival. His latest album, Music To Be Murdered By initially comes off as a response to the responses to his response album that responded to people hating Revival. However, it turns out to be one of the most well-rounded albums that Eminem has put out in years. The production hasn’t been this good in a while. Eminem himself, Dr. Dre, Royce Da 5′9″, The Alchemist, Dem Jointz, Trevor Lawrence Jr. and D.A. Doman among others contribute production to the album. There’s also more variety in the production, which makes this 20-track album not feel as long as a bunch of his past albums. This album takes inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock and contains some of the serial killer vibes that reminded me a little bit of Relapse. Premonition definitely sets the tone for the album because Eminem is rapping his ass off. The first song is the Unaccommodating, which features Young M.A. I thought this was an odd match-up and I’m not the biggest fan of Young M.A. but she had a dope verse with some good one-liners despite her sounding very laid-back which is not how Eminem sounds at all on the track. I loved the song despite the Ariana Grande concert line which was uncalled for. He switches up the vibe with You Gon’ Learn which features Royce Da 5′9″ who delivers one of his most politically charged verses that he’s put out in a while. Eminem had a dope line where he said “I'm with a gal at a Checkers wiling / Bumping ‘Fuck Da Police’ while I fed her Rally's.” Even though the beat on the song Godzilla was a little basic and poppy for me, Eminem was really flowing on this song. I think the end of his last verse was the fastest he’s ever rapped (yes, faster than Rap God and Offended). Juice WRLD (R.I.P.) is featured on the hook and he sounds very good and fitting for the beat. That song makes an interesting to the song Darkness which ran chills down my spine. It’s a haunting song from the perspective of the Las Vegas concert shooter. He tells a story of the shooter plotting in his hotel room while also describing the concert setting in a parallel story that contains double-meanings that apply to both stories. I am amazed that Eminem was able to make a song like this after dropping Revival. This song addressed gun violence in America in a very interesting way but this one makes a greater impact than the political tracks on Revival because it’s a much better song and it definitely makes a greater impact on the listener. It’s a hard song to listen to but he pulled it off phenomenally and the execution was great. There’s a really dope hip hop posse cut on this album featuring Royce Da 5′9″, Q-Tip, Black Thought and Mr. Porter. The beat is super energetic and it works for every single one of them. I can tell that this song was made out of the pure love of hip hop. Every verse is riddled with references to classic hip hop songs, down to the Busta Rhymes sample on the hook. Yes, Black Thought outrapped everyone and I wish Q-Tip had a verse but he sounded great on the hook. The song Never Love Again sounds like it could have appeared on Recovery. The song is a breakup song but it’s not about a woman, it’s about Eminem breaking up with the drugs he was once addicted to. What makes it so dope is that the song works as talking to both subjects. This song seems like it was important song for Eminem to make for himself for where he is in his life and it might be important song for other people struggling with drug addiction as well. Lock It Up is an absolute banger featuring Anderson .Paak. They collaborated previously on Dr. Dre’s Medicine Man. Eminem recruits Cactus Jack signee Don Toliver on the dope introspective No Regrets. I really do love this song and Don Toliver’s hook really makes the song. When I first saw the tracklist for this album, I was most intrigued by the song I Will. It features Royce Da 5′9″, KXNG Crooked and Joell Ortiz, 3/4 of Slaughterhouse. The song is noticably missing the 4th member of the group: Joe Budden. This did not surprise me because Budden has been “retired” for about 3 years and is very successful with his podcast. Budden and Em also exchanged jabs after Kamikaze dropped so I wasn’t expecting them to reconcile. Eminem and Slaughterhouse have done songs without Joe before (Session One) but I was so happy that we got a track with all of these guys on it. I would love Slaughterhouse to fully reunite but Joe is doing great things with the JBP. Joe would have killed this beat also. In terms of solely spitting bars, this is the best song on the album. Royce had a dope line where he said “Sacha Baron Cohen, Ferrell, where am I going with this? Oh yeah, I bar at will.” Crooked killed it and he had a great bar where he said “John Wilkes, that's who I'm in the booth like / Abra—I go ham for dead presidents / And everything I record is over your head like a boom mic.” Joell’s cleverness shows with lines like “I'm Optimus, I make prime examples of mini-Tonkas.” Eminem had a dope scheme about Wu-Tang where he said “Word to Method Man / She heard some Wu-Tang coming from towards the patio / She was like, ‘What the heck was that?’ / She went to check on the noise and go inspect the deck / Then I jumped out with a sword and yelled, ‘Protect your neck." I liked most of this album; at least a solid 65% of it. Even though this album has some of the best songs that Eminem has put out in a while and he’s rapping his ass off, this album has many flaws. Eminem and Ed Sheeran’s previous collaborations have sucked but Those Kinda Nights was really bad. Eminem’s immature Encore-reminiscent sense of humor comes through on this song and Ed Sheeran’s hook sounds so out of place and makes the song even worse. Songs like that make this album a lot harder to enjoy. No one asked for another track with Skylar Grey. This song had some of his most cringey bars and the hook was really bad. I usually don’t mind Eminem’s sort-of-singing register but the song Stepdad was so bad. It was out of place on the album and the hook was so terrible. Em was rapping really well on Little Engine but the hook ruined the whole song. It reminded me of the awful hook on Venom. Farewell really made me scratch my head. That’s one of the oddest songs that Eminem has made in a while. This would fit right in with those corny and not-at-all-funny tracks that somehow snuck onto the tracklist of The Marshall Mathers LP 2. The hook is really bad but the worst thing about it is the song revolves around this weird dancehall sample of Serani’s No Games. Yes, there are a bunch of skippable songs on this album that hurt the replay value of the album but overall, Music To Be Murdered By is a very good album and it is one of the best albums that Eminem has put out in a while. 

Fav Tracks: Unaccommodating, You Gon’ Learn, Darkness, Lock It Up, No Regrets, I Will

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New Audio: JOVM Mainstays R.I.P. Releases a Mosh Pit Friendly Ripper

New Audio: JOVM Mainstays R.I.P. Releases a Mosh Pit Friendly Ripper @rippdx @easyriderrecord @usthemgroup

Over the past handful of years, I’ve spilled quite a bit of virtual ink covering  Portland, OR-based doom metal act and JOVM mainstays R.I.P. And as you may recall, with the release of their first two albums, 2016’s In The Wind and 2017 ‘s Street Reaper, the Portland-based doom metal act quickly established a grimy, punishing…

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Best of 2018

A handful of favorites from what seemed like a particularly strong year for music. Rest in peace to Yuzo Iwata, who had the album of the year the second I heard it. I Dischi Del Barone was my label of the year; everything Matthias released could’ve gone on here. Most releases listed below are readily available via any links provided: support the artists, and let’s keep this thing rolling.

LP

Yuzo Iwata, Daylight Moon (Siltbreeze)

Mournful Congregation, The Incubus of Karma (20 Buck Spin)

Lolina, The Smoke (self-released)

The Body, I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer. (Thrill Jockey)

Woolen Men, Post (Dog’s Table)

Constant Mongrel, Living In Excellence (La Vida Es Un Mus/Anti Fade)

Mamitri Yulith Empress Yonagunisan, Yulith Lilith (Bruit Direct Disques)

Vilkacis / Turia split (Altare Productions)

Arv & Miljö, Svensk sommar i stilla frid (Omlott)

Six more:

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt, Brace Up! (Palilalia)

The Doozer, Figurines (Feeding Tube)

Geld, Perfect Texture (Iron Lung)

The Native Cats, John Sharp Toro (R.I.P. Society)

Patois Counselors, Proper Release (ever/never)

Mette Rasmussen & Tashi Dorji, s/t (Feeding Tube)

12″ / 7″ / cassette

Mosquitoes, Drip Water Hollow Out Stone 12″ (ever/never)

Alienation, Bitter Reality 7″ (Warthog Speak)

Fåglar I Bur, “Platt” b/w “Öppen Inbjudan” 7″ (I Dischi Del Barone)

Healer / DJ Eons, Dank Goblins split 7″ (Warthog Speak)

Honey Radar, Psychic Cruise 7″ (Chunklet)

JJ Ulius, “Tänder Ett Ljus” b/w “Era Jävla Manér” 7″ (Happiest Place)

Monokultur, s/t 7″ (I Dischi Del Barone)

The Native Cats, Spiro Scratch 7″ (Rough Skies)

Phrenelith, Ornamented Dead Eyes 7″ (Night Shroud)

Rapid Dye, Nurture or Destroy 7″ (Paradise Daily)

Mary Lattimore, Charlie’s Yard cassette (Petty Bunco)

Long Hots, Monday Night Raw cassette (self-released)

Wonderfuls, Voices Like Rain cassette (Round Bale)

Reissues? My research was scattered and lacking, but my top picks would be the Nightcrawlers’ Biophonic Boombox Recordings 2xLP, a much-needed reissue of Corrupted’s Se Hace Por Los Asesinos (buy that here or here), and Cut by Bill Direen/Bilders.

Above: Mizmor at Migration Fest 2018, Mr. Small’s Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA

Shows

Migration Fest at Mr. Small’s Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA: So many great sets, bolstered by the best company I could ask for and a multitude of trips to the nearby Grist House brewery. Mizmor, Mournful Congregation, Hell, Yellow Eyes and Fórn were my favorite performances of the weekend.

Primitive Man and Spectral Voice at the End, Nashville, TN

Bill Direen / Bilders at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN

Tashi Dorji at the Pilot Light, Knoxville, TN

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Robert “P-Nut” Johnson Dead at 69

Singer Robert “P-Nut” Johnson, who played with Bootsy Collins’ Rubber Band before beginning a long tenure with George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, died March 11, according to Collins.

“We lost another one to that other frequency, Mr. Robert P-Nut Johnson,” Collins wrote on Facebook. “ … Another P-Funk legend R.I.P.”

He was 69; no cause of death was reported.

Gary “Mudbone” Cooper brought Johnson to Bootsy’s Rubber Band in the early 1970s and the two shared vocal duties in both Collins’ and Clinton’s groups. Johnson joined Clinton’s P-Funk conglomerate in 1976 and continued recording and touring with the group, which wrapped its most-recent tour March 5, until the end.

Johnson appeared on Funkadelic's most recent LP, 2014’s First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate. At a February concert in Columbus, he was in high spirits and strolled down a catwalk on a couple of occasions to watch the show from the fans' perspective; at one point, he temporarily ceded his mic to an exuberant audience member before returning to his bandmates on stage.

“Left devastated and speechless … from the shocking news that my dear brother … ha(s) transitioned to the light,” Cooper wrote on Facebook. “ … R.I.P. my beloved brother. I’d rather be with you and will be forever.”

3/13/17

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2018-04-02 22 MUSIC now

MUSIC

Brooklyn Vegan

Van Morrison touring, playing Forest Hills with Willie Nelson, releasing LP

stream Hop Along's new album 'Bark Your Head Off, Dog'

What's Going on Monday?

Billy Corgan ends feud with Stephen Malkmus; Pavement opening on Smashing Pumpkins tour

What's Going on Sunday?

Consquence of Sound

The Voidz Don’t Give a Fuck What You Think

Eddie Vedder performs Pearl Jam’s “Black” with Brazilian doppelgänger Sergio Vedder: Watch

R.I.P. Steven Bochco, Emmy-winning television writer and producer dies at 74

The Best TV of March 2018: Sexy Lawyers, Crime-Fighting Magicians, and The Americans

Killing Joke announce 40th anniversary world tour

Fact Magazine

U2 rename themselves ME2 to honor global women’s movement, announce deluxe Boy reissue

The 25 best albums of the last three months: January to March 2018

Carl Craig and more feature in Plastic Dreams, a book documenting the ’90s Paris club scene

Relaxer unveils debut album A Family Disease, releases 22-minute track

Watch a beautiful documentary about Ryuichi Sakamoto’s tsunami-damaged piano

Fluxblog

Hohner Eko Taktron Arp

One Two Let Me Go

Shower Me In Symphonies

Fifth-Dimensional Views

Late Night Games

Idolator

Miley Cyrus Is A Sexy Easter Bunny In ‘Vogue:’ 15 Pics

The Drop: Your Guide To New Music Friday Featuring Tove Lo & The Palms

Tinashe Hits The Courts In Her Vibrant “Me So Bad” Video

Lady Gaga Pays Tribute To Elton John With Her Rousing “Your Song” Cover

Cardi B Warns A Straying Lover To “Be Careful” On Her New Mid-Tempo

Listen to This

Arthur Brown -- Nightmare [Rock] (1968)

Bulat Gazdanov -- Chernoyarsk Khonga [North Ossetian Traditional] (2013)

Takeshi Terauchi & His Blue Jeans - Rashomon [Surf Rock] (1973)

Hobart Curtis -- Model [IndiePop] (2018)

Music Melting Pot [Week of April 02, 2018]

Popjustice

New Music Good Friday: Post Precious! Dragonette! CHVRCHES!

NONONO’s new one is v excellent and here’s the video

New Music Friday: all hail Let’s Eat Grandma’s miniature pop symphony

Paloma Faith’s branded content is better than your branded content

Saluting the artwork for PRETTYMUCH’s Healthy

Reddit Music

Electric Six - Gay Bar[Rock](2002)

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus [New Wave]

Orbital - Halcyon And On And On [Electronica]

America - Horse with No Name [folk rock]

The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking [Rock]

Rolling Stone

Bush, Stone Temple Pilots, the Cult Set Tri-Headlining 'Revolution 3' Tour

On the Charts: Jack White's Number One Streak Continues With 'Boarding House Reach'

EODM's Jesse Hughes Apologizes After March For Our Lives Tirade

Anticon Rapper-Producer Alias Dead at 41

Watch Neil Young Revisit 'Peace Trail' for New 'Paradox' Video

Slipped Disc

Yuja Wang gets back to basics

Russia mourns top chorus director

Musicians Union fights ‘worst scam in 20 years’

The piano duo we’ve all been waiting for?

Death of a viol specialist, 86

Spotify Blog

The Weeknd Drops Two New Music Videos Only on Spotify

Taylor Swift’s New Delicate Video Only on Spotify

Spotify Expands Secret Genius With the Launch of Studios

Spotify and Genius Team Up to Launch Déjà Vu Podcast, Hosted by Stereo Williams

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R.I.P Chester Bennington

❝ When you're feeling alone, Cut off from this cruel world, Your instincts telling you to run. ❞ Today, July 20th, 2017, we say goodbye to an amazing vocalist who brought me and so many other LP fans so much joy over the past 10+ years. A voice like no other. ❝ Listen to your heart, Those angel voices, They'll sing to you They'll be your guide back home. ❞ In his home in Palos Verdes Estates in L.A. County, Chester Bennington was found at 9:00 AM, dead. He had committed sūicide by hanging. An employee of his had found him. ❝ When life leaves us blind, Love keeps us kind, It keeps us kind. ❞ Chester was married with 6 children. They were out of town at the time of his death. He was an amazing man, someone who was a role model to so many people. His kind words and smile made anyone around him happy. ❝ When you've suffered it all, And your spirit is breaking, You're growing desperate from the fight. ❞ He was the lead singer of my favorite band, Linkin Park. His voice was angelic, iconic and recognizable among may others. Chester loved what he did, and lead his group to amazing achievements. ❝ Remember you're loved, And you always will be. This melody will be Your guide back home. ❞ I'm sitting, writing this description while crying my eyes out. An amazing and talented man like Chester, ending his life so quickly... being gone just like that. My heart is broken. I'm not mad at him for what he did. I knew he was struggling. I'm just sad I'll never have the chance to see him again. ❝ When life leaves us blind, Love keeps us kind. When life leaves us blind, Love keeps us kind. ❞ My message to Chester Bennington : Your voice was something that was my escape. Your words were touching. You were such a talented man that so many people all over the world adored and cherished. Your smile was bright and happy. I, as well as many others, will miss you deeply. I'm so grateful I had the chance to see you in concert with your group 3 years ago. It is something I will always cherish and love. A memory that will never leave me. Linkin Park will continue to be one of my favorite groups, despite you being gone. I will always love and appreciate you, and keep your legacy living even though you're no longer here. Your music and words will continue to inspire me and help me get through dark times. All of us, the Linkin Park family, will never forget you. - Long time Linkin Park fan : Celeste ❝ Love keeps us kind, It keeps us kind. ❞

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With the release of their first two albums — 2016’s In The Wind and 2017’s Street Reaper — the Portland, OR-based doom metal act and JOVM mainstays R.I.P. quickly established their grimy, punishing, and depraved take on metal that they dubbed Street Doom.

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