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Music DVD Review: Clutch ‘Live At The 9:30’
Clutch have done some amazing things musically. For having been around 20 years they just keep on getting better and better with age. “Live At The 9:30” is a true testament to the music they have created and with that being said I am more than proud to bring you my review of “Live At The 9:30”.
Read on for the review!
Upon receiving “Live At The 9:30” I questioned the album’s title like I do with most albums I get. It turns out The 9:30 Club houses a lot of special memories not too mention some of their influencing bands such as The Melvins have come through there and put on amazing shows. They felt The 9:30 Club was the perfect place to have such a special event.
The live set is based around them playing their self-titled full length album in it’s entirety. Along with that such gems such as “The Regulator and Gravel Road” are played. Their self-titled full length is still their best selling album to date, selling over 200,000 copies. The show is flawless, I honestly could not tell if there were any one-offs which I’m sure there wasn’t. You can tell they put a lot of care into how this was going to come out and it looks and sounds fantastic, just one step behind from actually being at the show.
Now aside from the live set the package comes with a second disc, “Fortune Tellers Make A Killing Nowadays” which is a documentary with the band as well as other performers and fans talking about how great Clutch is. Throughout the interviews you could call Clutch’s modesty almost disgusting. They are so humble about how much they achieve and express how grateful they are. It’s nice to know a band like that still exists. Along with that there is some archival footage which definitely goes back to the bands early years.
All in all I say this package is well worth the buy. The concert is just perfect and any Clutch fan would love it in their collection. Even if you don’t own many albums from Clutch this is a great way to see how the guys go about things and how fantastic of a show they put on. Now put this in your pipe and smoke it.
5 out of 5 skulls.
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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