Heavy-hitters Lo-Pan give New Noise an early preview of their fifth record ahead of its April release–and, to The Bad Penny‘s particular delight, geek out about Big Trouble in Little China.
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Lo-Pan: ‘We Play at the Audience. We Do Not Play for an Audience’
Posted in Favorite Films, Features, Interviews with tags Big Trouble in Little China, Lo-Pan, Magnetic Eye on 03/01/2025 by Kurt OrzeckBlue Heron: Breaking Bad-Asses
Posted in Interviews with tags Blue Heron, High Desert Queen, Jadd Shickler, Kyuss, Magnetic Eye on 07/18/2022 by Kurt Orzeck
“In the absence of genuine leadership, they’ll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They’re so thirsty for it, they’ll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there’s no water, they’ll drink the sand.” -Lewis Rothschild (Michael J. Fox), The American President
Twenty-five years ago — shortly after the demise of Palm Desert, California’s Kyuss roughly 10 hours to the west — a new oasis of low-end heavy rock began to form in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The year 1997 saw the birth of MeteorCity Records, a label devoted to sludge, psych, drone and doom. The label quenched the thirst of hard-rock fans thirsty for more thunderous, bottom-heavy rock beyond what they found on Man’s Ruin Records (which collapsed in 2001).
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