With a handful of this year’s best metal releases dropping Tuesday, the timing feels apt for the Bad Penny to round up its favorite 2010 LPs – at least so far. Continue reading
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Bad Penny MP3s: Best Of 2010, Part III – Superchunk, Lovers, Robert Pollard, Women, More
Posted in Lists, MP3s with tags Blood Red Shoes, Brass Bed, Broken Water, Cashes Rivers, Lovers, Nuclear Power Pants, Oberhofer, Robert Pollard, Selene Vigil-Wilk, Shuteye Unison, Six Finger Satellite, Superchunk, Weed, Women, Wow & Flutter on 09/12/2010 by kurtorzeck
With the first day of autumn only 10 days away, here’s a new batch of chestnuts for yer ears. Continue reading
Bad Penny MP3s: Best Of 2010, Part II – Trans Am, Damien Jurado, Masakari, Versus, More
Posted in Lists, MP3s with tags Bodycop, Caddywhompus, Casiokids, Child Bite, Damien Jurado, Double Dagger, Extra Life, Field Music, Futurebirds, Jews and Catholics, Masakari, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Rifoki, Trans Am, Versus on 06/07/2010 by kurtorzeck
With 2010 about to reach halftime, here’s the second roundup of choicest cuts the Bad Penny has offered so far this year. Continue reading
Death-Metal-Parody Proposals For ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
Posted in Lists with tags Amon Amarth, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Dark Tranquillity, Death, Disincarnate, In Flames, Morbid Angel, Obituary, Suffocation, Weird Al, Weird Al Yankovic on 06/06/2010 by kurtorzeck
Amon Amarth’s “Valhalla Awaits Me” -> “Pizza Awaits Me”
Cannibal Corpse’s “Covered With Sores” -> “Covered With S’mores”
Carcass’ “Inpropagation” -> “Inpoopagation” Continue reading
Top 10 Reasons Why Stone Temple Pilots Suck Even More Now Than Before
Posted in Lists on 06/06/2010 by kurtorzeck
10. Scott Weiland isn’t shooting heroin anymore (presumably).
9. Since they’re active again, their shitty songs are as ubiquitous on radio as they were before. And, for some reason, it’s impossible to get through a nationally televised MLB game without hearing them.
8. Now they’re on Facebook. Continue reading
Best Albums Of 2002
Posted in Lists with tags Bill Hicks, David Cross, Fugazi, Interpol, Isis, Liars, Melvins, Pentagram, Queens of the Stone Age, Sparta, System of a Down, the Flaming Lips, the Icarus Line, the Reigning Sound on 02/03/2010 by kurtorzeck
GOLD
1. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (Interscope)
2. Bill Hicks – Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1 – Pittsburgh ’91 and Love, Laughter & Truth reissues (Rykodisc) Continue reading
Bad Penny MP3s: Best Of 2010, Part I – Quasi, Xiu Xiu, Harlem, Album Leaf, More
Posted in Lists, MP3s with tags AFCGT, Album Leaf, Beach House, Cars and Trains, Dinowalrus, Ernest Gonzales, Harlem, Jason Boesel, Kevin Barker, Oh No Ono, Quasi, Rauelsson, Shining, Toro y Moi, Xiu Xiu on 01/24/2010 by kurtorzeck
In case you don’t have the time or inclination to weed through all the MP3s featured on the Bad Penny New Releases Schedule, here’s a list of choice, recently posted cuts. Continue reading
Best Albums Of The 2000s
Posted in Lists with tags 3 Inches of Blood, David Cross, Electric Six, Isis, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Murder City Devils, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, Silversun Pickups, Sweep the Leg Johnny, System of a Down, the Mars Volta, Tomahawk on 12/31/2009 by kurtorzeck
1. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (Interscope)
2. Isis – Oceanic (Ipecac)
• Bad Penny interview: “Isis’ Aaron Turner In ’02: Oceanic Is ‘The Best Material We’ve Ever Written’ ”
• Bad Penny essay: “Isis’ Oceanic: Mystery Revealed?”
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Best Albums Of 2009
Posted in Lists with tags Baroness, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Dååth, Dethklok, Double Dagger, Isis, Job for a Cowboy, Kylesa, Mastodon, Pissed Jeans, Prize Country, the Family Curse, Them Crooked Vultures on 12/30/2009 by kurtorzeck
1. Mastodon – Crack the Skye (Warner Bros.)
• “Doppelgängers: Mastodon’s Brent Hinds and Actor J.C. Quinn”
2. Dethklok – Dethalbum II (Williams Street)
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