Radio G String

Another day, another Terrorized Recommends: 

Shhh! Today, we’re in the presence of Wildlife – a Seattle based band, who produce ethereal-ish almost-drone prog with the odd element of violence; and their myspace has a penis chandelier for the background which is, frankly, amazing. Huzzah for Wildlife! 

In another plane of existence, there’s a big global plan to release a compilation on July 4, promoting the contribution to music that independent record labels have made. Each country which gets an album gets on unique to their country.
Pretty cool, hey? There’s a five part series on it, too. Sadly, I’m betting that the series will focus on the mainstream history of it and completely ignore the punk rock/heavy metal sides of things. There will be a lot about Factory, a lot about Island (because it was one of the first), Rough Trade (terrible record shop, by the way. Horrible place.), etc. Golden boys amongst all indies, certainly. But what about the sub-culture world that battles on and doesn’t, so much, seek mainstream recognition? 

Will Fat Wreck; Epitaph; Roadrunner; Nuclear Blast; SST; Alternative Tentacles; Household Name; etc.; get a voice? It’d be unfair for such labels not to, not because they’ve been at peaks in a scene, but because they are the pillars that maintain them, keep them going and keep it thrusting forward, despite whatever mainstream culture decides is cool. 

Still, the UK compilation includes some pretty interesting bands covering great songs – Feeder covering Public Image by PiL (Johnny Rotten’s second band); The Prodigy covering Ghost Town by the Specials; Rodrigo y Gabriela covering Orion by Metallica, etc.

Most of the tracks are unimaginative and pretty boring and predictable …

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