OcularHarmony

Upon reading The Wire magazine's top 50 albums of 2008, I was inspired to share my own favorites of the year. TEN Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace Skin Graft's Hospitals again have used their full potential to produce noisy no-wave ear brutality. It's as if LSD was a sound and had the same effect to the brain. Where many artists perk up their accessibility after being moderately popularized, Hospitals became more noise-oriented. NINE Sunn0))) - Domkirke Domkirke is a live recording by Southern Lord's Sunn0))). O'Malley has never exhearted his voice so much that the album begins like an opera / drone hybrid extravaganza, then returns to Sunn0

Departing life in a suburban “city” certainly will open unopened openings for me as far as creativity is concerned. My hometown Aylmer merged with Gatineau not too long ago, thus becoming the #1 growing city in Canada. As much as one could use the ‘Is the glass half empty or half full?’ comparison of pessimism/optimism, suburbia striving to be a city has a similar contrast of providing the full functions of a city while remaining quieter vs. just enough culture to ruin the conventions of country style living and city life at the same time. In Aylmer there is certainly NOT a fine balance between the two. A skateboard park

After hearing people summarize their music taste into one word, you often hear "underground", as infuriating as it can be. Underground implies that they're lesser known, but what makes the sound of "underground" different from the front end of music? 1. Major labels are the devil Record companies become the band's parent. They let them know what they can or can't do, thus limiting their individual potential. Smaller labels are often less strict and give the group more control over their material. Classic albums such as The Chronic had a difficult time being released since most labels were scared of releasing an album with so much profanity.