by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Captain Squeegee Defeats Evil with Music in New Video “Dually Noted”
Phoenix, Arizona’s Captain Squeegee may not be winning MTV VMAs, but the atomic jazz fusion act are in the video vanguard nonetheless. The seven-piece horn-led acid trip has spent the last two and a half years vigorously releasing videos from…
by Alexandra Ramirez • • Comments Off on The smallest Creature release “Reboot”, album comes out soon
A new rock/alternative band caught our attention recently. Based in Cyprus, they are named The smallest Creature and released their first single “Reboot” out of the full-length album whose name is yet to be announced. The group is the…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on PizzaFest 3: Code name Pizza Fist
There isn’t a soul on the planet who is going to mistake King Pizza Records annual barnstormer PizzaFest for Coachella, but if you talk to King Pizza founder Greg Hanson you will quickly find that glitz, glamor and money were…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Highly Suspect – the band that will rule the music scene in 2016
Our black heart, Camden, London – 8th Feb 2016 Support: Reigning Days If you haven’t heard about Highly Suspect from Brooklyn before, you are not the only one. The three guys originally from Cape Cod, moved to the Big Apple…
I was never a Bowie fan (Sacrilege, I know). I didn’t dislike the guy; it’s just that nothing about his involvement in the worlds of high fashion or movies or synth-pop endeared him to me, and the latter was his…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Remembering David Bowie in One Song
“The David Bowie songs I’ve played on repeat through my life varied, I was also finding new songs, new albums, new b-sides… It’s very hard to choose a favorite David Bowie song, but I’m especially fond of “Five Years”. I…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Grammy-nominated Highly Suspect get ready for UK tour
Highly Suspect is a name, you will have trouble not forgetting. I have to admit the first time I’ve heard the first single “Lydia” of their debut album, I was surprised by fact they haven’t made big just yet. The…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Stormy Mondays and their music flying in space
No, for real – Spanish folk rockers Stormy Mondays recently won NASA’s space rock contest, ensuring their music would be played in space on board the Endeavor Space Shuttle. How cool is that to start with! Anyway, I’m bringing Stormy…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Lucifer, Pallbearer, High On Fire – Metalhead Paradise @ Irving Plaza
Is the “metalhead’s paradise” a heaven or a hell, I don’t know, but this show at Irving Plaza had everything needed to please the fans of the heavy guitars genre on a Friday night. First on the list were Venomous…
by Mart Kawaii • • Comments Off on Industrial metal attack with a neometal kick – Fear Factory & Coal Chamber @ Irving Plaza
“Is it 1996 again?”, Shentov, a fellow music blogger from Bulgaria (also my homeland) exclaimed on Facebook after I shared that I’ll go see Fear Factory and Coal Chamber at Irving Plaza. And yes, it was in a way, but…