This Track Is Fire!

This is a young blog, so I am hesitant to highlight a band more than once, but at the same time I want this blog to naturally reflect those songs that I am currently enjoying. So, while I've already linked to multiple songs by Pixel Grip ,  Nine Inch Nails, and Boys Noize already this year, we can add HEALTH to that list now . I think one of the things that I like about HEALTH in particular is that they are so hard to pigeonhole. Are they metal? Are they industrial? Are the electronic? Are they noise rock? The answer is an emphatic YES to all of the above, and more. This is the first single off of their forthcoming album Conflict DLC  and if the entire album is like this I will be a very happy man indeed. I can feel my face melting already, and for me, that's a good thing. Enjoy! CONFLICT DLC by HEALTH

For a guy that predominantly likes synth-pop and dance music, I have to say that HEALTH is one of my favorite musical discoveries of the last five or so years, and this track  is  fire, so there. While I understand that the end of summer is technically the third week of September, just like how Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer, Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer. I'm getting older and the years, and their summers, are coming and going faster and faster each year. I don't like it, so here's some industrial/noise rock/metal whose marching guitars reflect my sour disposition over the fact that I have to say goodbye to summer before I am ready to let it go. This is wonderful, aggressive music that fits my mood today.  Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow, but for now, I want to listen to music like this and break stuff. Have a great weekend! VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR by HEALTH

The existence of disruptive voices is important for music and art, and Bob Vylan are definitely that. Maybe you'd heard of them recently due to their appearance at Glastonbury and their controversial set. Yes, they said something that may be conservatively called "aggressive" and perhaps even "inflammatory," but I wouldn't call it antisemitic. To that point: We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to use "unnecessary lethal force" against innocent civilians waiting for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza.   - Bob Vylan on Instragram Me, I've been around long enough to remember another controversial band called NWA releasesed "Fuck Tha Police" almost 40 years ago. That song was met with the same sort of acrimony at the time, but so were Elvis's hips, and the Beatles' mop tops. Music a...