Goth pop/rock due The Haxans have shared their new music video for their track ‘Young Blood’. The track comes from their new album Party Monsters which is out now via Red Music. The Haxens are comprosed of singer Ash Costello of New Years Day and multi-instrumentalist Matt Montgomery (a.k.a. Piggy D) of Rob Zombie. Watch the clip for ‘Young Blood’ below.Continue reading
Tom Petty, part of the fabric of American Rock Music for over forty years died last night at age 66 of a massive heart attack, leaving fans, friends, and family devastated by the sudden news. Petty had just wrapped up his 40th Anniversary tour with his band The Heartbreakers, last week at The Hollywood Bowl, which would fittingly be his final performance ever. Continue reading
Hall of Fame Jazz rock originator Walter Becker of Steely Dan passed away today at an undisclosed ailment, in his home in Maui, Hawaii. He was 67. Becker had been working and touring with the band he founded since 1967 until earlier this year. He met his bandmate and writing mate Donald Fagen at Bard College and the duo went from ace studio musicians to chart topping songwriters and brilliant writers and performers.We put together a playlist of Becker’s best-known work below. Rest in Power Walter! Continue reading
Genius is a gangly word to throw around, and at Ghost Cult, we don’t use it lightly, or all that often. For Steven Wilson, that tag has applied more often than not to his output in his thirty-year-plus career. As he pulls further and further away from his progressive metal heyday; he runs headlong to return to his early roots in the 1980s of No Man Is An Island/No-Man (look it up if you don’t know it) project. His loose goal going in was to make a pop-rock album in the vein of lightly prog-flavored favorites of his youth such as Peter Gabriel, Tears For Fears, XTC, and others. He achieved this on To The Bone (Caroline International), without any pretense you might associate with an artist making a choice like this.Continue reading
With the release of their début full-length album Grow (Sumerian) in 2015, Californian’s Chon found themselves standing out from a peer group they were arguably unfairly lumped in. Perhaps due to the Sumerian Records ties, but their début saw them linked to the contemporary Tech/Metalcore scene despite their sound being more technical, but smooth jazz with little to no signs of metal whatsoever. If such pigeonholing was unfair back then, on new album Homey (Sumerian), any comparisons to the like would prove practically absurd.Continue reading
It’s a tricky thing growing up and playing music. I don’t mean “former child stars gone bad, next on TMZ”. Most bands that hit the mainstream have something catchy, visceral, and often a magic quality about their talent. The problem is that once you’ve gotten a taste of that hot hot spotlight, usually a band or artist ends up uncompromising to stay in front of it. The few that don’t ever sell out, fight an uphill battle the rest of their careers. This is the fight Linkin Park have been in since about album three, and now they are in it again on album seven in almost 20 years, One More Light (Warner Bros.)Continue reading
As promised, Metallica and Lady Gaga performed together tonight at The Grammy Awards, and in case you missed it, we have footage of the entire duet for you here. Continue reading
The Glam Skanks are by far one of my favorite openers I have seen in some time. The way the music and attitude infected everyone right off the bat was something you would usually expect from the headliner. I honestly have not seen a band believe in what they are doing more than them in recent memory. The subject matter is fun, racy and rebellious while maintaining a very strong sense of confidence and awesome female empowerment. Like an all-girl gang that will take your pinball money at the roller rink, but wink at you as they walk away.Continue reading
The merging of tech metal with pop sensibilities is hardly a new concept; the ‘Djent’ movement is arguably (for better or worse) the prime example of such, whilst recently the likes of Chon have really showcased such soulful influences on their sleeves and thus offer technicality alongside warmth and accessibility.Continue reading
