Whenever I listen to Father John Misty’s 2017 release, Pure Comedy, I can’t help but think about the works of one of my all-time favorite authors, Kurt Vonnegut. To place Josh Tillman, the man behind FJM, on the same level as Vonnegut would be a bit hyperbolic, but Tillman’s satirical portrayal of a misguided human race is reminiscent of Vonnegut’s hopeless take of humanity.
Filed under Album Review, Best New Albums
In this year’s edition of Cinco De Metal, we check out new metal from Forming the Void, Power Trip, Pallbearer, Uniform, King Woman, and Mastodon. We also revisit the Metallica documentary “Some Kind of Monster” and check out Bob Dylan’s riveting “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”.
Tracklist:
Forming the Void “After Earth”
Power Trip “Executioner’s Tax”
Pallbearer “I Saw the End”
Uniform “The Killing of America”
King Woman “Hierophant”
Mastodon “Precious Stones”
Metallica “Creeping Death”
Bob Dylan “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”
Filed under BDWPS Podcast
First off, I’d like to apologize for not keeping up on the blog much over the past few months. I’m hoping to get back on track over the next few weeks. Over the past several weeks, I’ve been preparing for my new blog series, “Year of the Neil: The Story of Neil Young.” For those that have followed BDWPS for the past year, you are probably familiar with the podcast I tried out last year about David Bowie’s life. Over the course of the year, the podcast would receive over 10,000 downloads, which is a pretty big deal considering I do it for free and did very little promoting of it. I suppose Bowie’s death drew people to it organically, but I’m also proud that many of those random visitors listened to all nine episodes.
Despite the amount of work I put into that series, I felt compelled to continue the “Year Of” project by continuing with a new artist in 2017. The first name to come to mind was Neil Young, one of my all-time favorite artists. After researching on his life, I knew I had to tell his wild story. Below you will find the first episode. You can also listen and subscribe to the series on iTunes and Stitcher (search: Year of the Neil). I hope you enjoy the first episode that takes a look at Neil’s upbringing.
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Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs 