Throwback Thursday: Hate Dept. with Project 44 and Absynthe of Faith

Throwback Thursday time again. Tonight I am featuring photos and video footage from last year's Hate Dept. show with Project 44 and local band Absynthe of Faith. Enjoy!

Old and New Favorite Songs of the Week

Old Favorite Songs:






New Favorite Songs:

Ashbury Heights: Glow

Today I just saw on youtube that Ashbury Heights has a new music video out called "Glow". It is off their fantastic new album The Looking Glass Society. Check it out if you haven't heard it already.

Weekly Playlist for 07/27-08/02

Time for this week's playlist put together by Spotify :). Really dig the tracks by Digital Daggers, Light Asylum, Phantogram, and Perturbator.

Office Playlist of The Week

Amaranthe: The Nexus

Arch Enemy: War Eternal

Ashbury Heights: The Looking Glass Eternal

The Bangles: Everything

Blutengel: Demon Kiss

Camouflage: Greyscale

Conjure One

Delta Rae: Carry the Fire

Delta Rae: After It All

Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams

Enigma: The Cross of Changes

Faun: Von Den Elben

Finding Neverland: The Album

Hanzel und Gretyl: Black Forest Metal

Helalyn Flowers: White Me In/Black Me Out

Kitten: Kitten

The Luna Sequence: Fearful Shepherds Hunt Their Sheep

Marsheaux: Inhale

Massive Attack: Mezzanine

Neuroticfish: A Sign of Life

Nightwish: Oceanborn

Omega Lithium: Dreams in Formaline

Otto's Daughter: Arc Of A Dream

Pretty Addicted: It All Stems From Childhood

The Promise Soundtrack

Psyborg Corp: The Mechanical Renaissance

Sabaton: Heroes

Schwarzblut: Gebeyn Aller Verdammten

Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

Xandria: Sacrificium

Youth Code: An Overture

Album of the Week: The Looking Glass Society by Ashbury Heights

I know I have been awfully quiet about new music lately. Truthfully there are a couple of reasons for my silence. First, I am saving my money up for a new tattoo and my trip to Chicago over Labor Day weekend. The second reason being that the quality of music that is being released this year is anything but impressive. There have been some gems here and there but nothing like the past two-three years. June was a complete drought for me but that drought is over. At least for now.

One of my personal favorite bands from the past few years Ashbury Heights recently released a new album (finally!) called The Looking Glass Society. The new album features new singer Tea F. Thime whose vocals complimented Anders Hagstrom's vocals nicely. After waiting 6 years for new music from Ashbury Heights, the long wait proved to be worth every second/minute/hour/days/weeks/months/years. Anders has a definite talent for creating some of the catchiest melodies known to mankind. Every song on this album contains solid pop hooks. There is not one song on the album I did not like. I love the previous Ashbury Heights albums but they were far from perfect, The Looking Glass Society on the other hand is an absolute masterpiece. If you haven't heard of Ashbury Heights before, I strongly recommend checking the Swedish band out and do check out their new album.

End of the week lists

Favorite pop songs:
Ellie Goulding: When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
Pink: Just Give Me A Reason
Adele: Make You Feel My Love

Favorite Albums:
Ashbury Heights: The Looking Glass Society
Veruca Salt: Ghost Notes
Finding Neverland : the album
Angels and Agony: Monument
Niyaz: The Fourth Light

Favorite Artists/Bands:
Ashbury Heights
SPC ECO
Pegasus Asteroid
Amy Winehouse
Angels and Agony

Favorite Ashbury Heights Songs:
Spiders
Kingdom Confession
I Can Kill You So Easily
Smaller
Derrick is a Strange Machine

Favorite Albums Released in 2015:
SPC ECO: Dark Matter
Invocation Array: A Color For Fiction
Ashbury Heights: The Looking Glass Society
Re/Vision: The SkyQode Tribute to De/Vision
Nightwish: Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Throwback Thursday: God Module with Die Sektor and FTC

Throwback Thursday time! Tonight I decided to turn back the clock to last year when God Module came to town with Die Sektor, local band FTC opened up the show. Good times.

Old and New Favorite Songs of the Week

Old Favorite Songs:






New Favorite Songs:

Weekly Playlist for 07/20-07/26

I just discovered tonight that on Spotify I have playlist featuring songs that was picked out for me. Well that made my job a whole lot easier.  LOL! So here is this week's playlist that Spotify put together for me.

Freezepop at The Nether Bar with Duck Duck Punch, The Electric Witch, and Dance Assault on 07.18.15

Another Kilted Farmer Koncerts has come and gone. Last night I went to see Freezepop with local acts Duck Duck Punch, The Electric Witch, and Dance Assault. In between sets, DJ SLT provided some music while the bands broke down or put up their gear for their set. It was a fun night to be had, I especially dug the sounds of the Duluth act The Electric Witch. They even did a rad cover of Depeche Mode's Black Celebration towards the end of their set. Last night was the fourth time I had seen Freezepop live. I have yet to be disappointed in Freezepop's live shows. I love it that they close the show with a cover song and this time the theme song to the '80s cartoon show Jem.

5 songs I currently have stuck in my head

01. Amy Winehouse: Back to Black


02. Ayria: Analog Trash


03. Social Distortion: Ring of Fire


04. Razed in Black: Share This Poison


05. Dum Dum Girls: Are You Okay?

End of the Week Lists

Albums I am Currently Listening to:
Freezepop: Imaginary Friends
Niyaz: The Fourth Light
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
Aphex Twin: Syro
Sleater-Kinney: Sleater-Kinney

Favorite Freezepop Songs:
Frontload
Natural Causes
Science Genius Girl
Less Talk More Rokk
I'm Not Your Gameboy

Favorite Songs From Azam Ali as Niyaz and Vas:
Love Song (The Cure cover)
Mandara
Endless Reverie
Spring Arrives
Niyaz

Favorite KMFDM Songs:
New American Century
Juke Joint Jezebel
Money
Power
Light

Favorite Haujobb Songs:
Dead Market
Distance
Less
Maternal Instinct
Perpetual Motion

Throwback Thursday: 2000

Time for Throwback Thursday. Tonight I chose to do the year 2000. Enjoy!

01. Delerium: Silence


02. BT: Dreaming


03. Amanda Ghost: Filthy Mind


04. Daft Punk: One More Time


05. Moby: Porcelain


06. Orgy: Fiction (Dreams in Digital)


07. Nine Inch Nails: Into the Void


08. The Cure: Maybe Someday


09. Dido: Here With Me


10. Afro Celt Sound System: Release

Freezepop at The Nether Bar on 07/18

In case you haven't heard of the news because you live in a cave, MA band Freezepop is making a return to the Twin Cities for the first time in four years. You can read all the gory details at KiltedFarmer.com.

To get an idea of the music I have posted a playlist of Freezepop's music as well as clips of music from the opening acts.

Playlist of the Week

For this week's playlist, I was inspired by my youtube playlist of '90s songs I listen to at work.

Office Playlist of the Week

Another work week again!

And Finally: Heartbreak Empire

Autumn: Return to The Breath

Ayria: Hearts For Bullets

BT: ESCM

Carved Souls: Waveform

Covenant: Leaving Babylon

Delerium: Karma

Delta Rae: After It All

Dum Dum Girls: Too True

Endless Blue: Smoke Through It

Faithless: Sunday 8pm

Future Perfect: Escape

Garbage: Not Your Kind of People

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo soundtrack

Junksista: High Voltage Confession

Lindsey Stirling: Shatter Me

Marsheaux: Odyssey

Moonlight Cove: Orphans of the Storm

Nightwish: Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Noblesse Oblige: Affair of the Heart

Phantogram: Voices

Purity Ring: Another Eternity

Sleepthief; The Dawnseeker

Syrian: Death of A Sun

Tegan and Sara: Heartthrob

Tristania: Darkest Whites

Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

My review of Amy

This afternoon I had the immense pleasure of taking in an afternoon viewing of the recently released film Amy based on the tragic life of pop singer Amy Winehouse. I had been waiting to see this film for a few weeks now.



While everyone in America pretty much knew Amy as a walking trainwreck, director Asif Kapadia wanted to show that there was much more to Amy than what the public saw in the tabloids. Amy was truly a talented artist, troubled but talented nevertheless and a human being to say the very least. The film includes various pictures, film footage, and voice recordings of Amy dating all the way back to when she was a baby. The film also includes many people from Amy's life from her family (who have dissociated themselves with the film accusing the film of telling untruths), friends, and business associates.

I found the film absolutely compelling and equally devastating to watch. Amy Winehouse had so much promise as an artist who was like an old soul trapped in a young body. Sadly her demons were too unrelenting that Amy could not seek the help to address her addictions, namely to alcohol. Right from birth, Amy's life was anything but easy. Her family was dysfunctional. The pain that came from her life would eventually lead Amy down a road of addictions and an eating disorder thus lead to her untimely death.

I understood why Mitch Winehouse dissociated himself with the film. There were moments that made me question his character as a father to Amy but that was never the intention of Asif Kapadia from what I have read in his interviews about the film online. The scene where Mitch shows up with a camera and audio crew in Saint Lucia is one example of why this viewer made me take a dim view of him even for a brief moment (the other him saying Amy didn't need to go to rehab AT THAT TIME, which was edited out of the film). As Asif said in one interview, there is plenty of blame to go around with Amy's family, friends, and business associates but ultimately at the end of the day Amy is the only person who could truly recognize that she had an addiction to narcotics and alcohol and needed help. For anyone who has experienced or has witnessed family members or friends with addictions  is that if they truly want to get clean they first need to recognize it and seek the help. You send a person to rehab all you want but that individual really has to see that they need help and that they want it. I think Mitch is right about that issue. Sadly Amy never reached that moment of clarity that she needed help.

Asides from her troubled personal life, the film shows Amy as an immensely talented artist especially when she would pick up the guitar. I had no idea what Amy Winehouse was capable of as a musician. You can watch this early footage of Amy Winehouse performing "Take the Box"  to get an idea of  what the late artist was capable of. As depressing as the film was, I loved watching a younger and less troubled Amy with her friends and former manager long before the fame and stardom took a toll on her.

I think Asif Kapadia did accomplish his goal and humanized Amy Winehouse. She was much more than that trainwreck on stage in Belgrade where she got booed off for showing up shitfaced and not performing.  Her record label and management knew she was in no shape to perform but still sent her to Belgrade so she could be publicly shamed. Amy was human and not perfect as is anybody else. Looking back, I feel guilty now for all the cracks I made about her physical and mental state. If anything I have become a bigger fan of Amy Winehouse more so than I was before when Back to Black first came out. I truly recommend seeing the documetary. It was far more worth my money than the latest Terminator film which I saw last weekend.

End of the Week Lists

Favorite Albums:
VNV Nation: Resonance
Moonlight Cove: Hearts of The World
CHROM: Synthetic Movement
SPC ECO: Dark Matter
Ego Likeness: When the Wolves Return

Favorite Ego Likeness Songs:
Persona Non Grata
Treacherous Thing
When The Wolves Return
Sirens and Satellites
Drive (Cars cover)

Favorite Songs From the '90s:
Belly: Gepetto
Live: Selling the Drama
Lush: 500 (Shake Baby Shake)
Social Distortion: Ball and Chain
Veruca Salt: Volcano Girls

Favorite Albums From the '90s:
Social Distortion: Social Distortion
L7: Bricks Are Heavy
Babes in Toyland: Fontanelle
Belly: Star
Republica: Republica

Throwback Thursday: 1994

Throwback Thursday time again folks! Tonight it is all about 1994. Enjoy!

01. Mazzy Star: Fade Into You


02. Live: Selling the Drama


03. Tori Amos: God


04. Jesus and Mary Chain: Sometimes Always


05. Bjork: Big Time Sensuality


06. Erasure: Always


07. Nine Inch Nails: Closer


08. Veruca Salt: Seether


09. Hole: Doll Parts


10. Beastie Boys: Sabotage

Old and New Favorite Songs of the Week

Old Favorite Songs:






New Favorite Songs:

Future Perfect "The Fall"

In case you haven't seen it yet, here is the new video for "Fall" by one of my personal favorite synthpop bands Future Perfect. Check out the video and their new EP After the Fall.

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult coming to town

If you haven't heard already,My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult is coming to Amsterdam Bar and Hall in Saint Paul on 10/3. So in honor of their fall show in Saint Paul, tonight I decided to post some of their music I could find on Spotify and youtube.

Office Playlist of the Week

And Finally: Heartbreak Empire

Arch Enemy: Khaos Legions

Avatar soundtrack

Blutengel: Black Symphonies

Blume: Rise From Grey

Belinda Carlisle: The Collection

Johnny Cash: American IV: The Man Comes Around

Kasey Chambers: Barricades and Brickwalls

The Civil Wars: Barton Hallow

Delerium: Music Box Opera

Depeche Mode: Ultra

Ego Likeness: Dragonfly

Enya: The Very Best of Enya

Frost: Melodica

Garbage: Not Your Kind of People

Gravity Soundtrack

Hanzel und Gretyl: Black Forest Metal

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows Part 2 soundtrack

Icon of Coil:Machines Are Us

Janet Jackson: The Velvet Rope

Junksista: High Voltage Confessions

Lindsay Stirling: Lindsay Stirling

Lullacry: Crucify My Heart

Lullacry: Vol.4

Moby: Play

Moonlight Cove: Hearts of the World

Nightwish: Highest Hopes

Psy'Aviah: The Xenogamous Endeavour

Sleepthief: The Dawnseeker

System Syn: All Seasons Pass

Paul Van Dyk: Out There and Back

CD Purge. Got some shit up for auction on Ebay

Pretty self-explainatory. User ID is eanderson74. I do ship outside the US. I just ask for people to send me payment ASAP so I can get the item into the mail promptly. Here is what I have put up for auction in the past 24 hours (links to stream the artists' music is posted): 

Surgyn: Envy

Celtic Woman: Believe

Some Things Are Beyond Therapy

Sisu: Blood Tears

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu: Pika Pika Fantajin

Wussy: Attica

Suicide Commando: X.20 (The Best of)

Goldfrapp: Supernature

Weird Al: Mandatory Fun

The Azoic: Corruption

Shiny Toy Guns: III

Austra: Olympia

2:54: The Other I

Hocico: Wrack and Ruin

In This Moment: Blood

God Module: False Face

Front Line Assembly: Echogenetic

End of the Week Lists

Current Favorite Songs:
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
Adele: Make You Feel My Love
Goldfrapp: Strict Machine
In Strict Confidence: Forever and More
Toni Halliday: Nowhere to Hide

Favorite Blutengel Songs:
Uber den Horizont
Reich Mir Die Hand
Angels of the Dark
You Walk Away
Singing Dead Man

Albums I Am Currently Listening to:
Seabound: No Sleep Demon
Gone Girl Soundtrack
Client: Authority
Junksista: Bad Case of Fabulous
Goldfrapp: Tales of Us

Favorite Unter Null Songs:
Sick Fuck
The Fall
Playing the Fool
Prophecy
Broken Heart Cliche

Throwback Thursday: 1988

Throwback Thursday time again. Tonight I chose the year 1988.

01. The Bangles: Hazy Shade of Winter


02. OMD: Dreaming


03. When In Rome: The Promise


04. Breathe: Hands to Heaven


05. Tracy Chapman: Fast Car


06. Erasure: Chains of Love


07. Information Society: What's On Your Mind


08. Morrissey: Every Day is Like Sunday


09. Primitives: Crash


10. Book of Love: Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls

Old and New Favorite Songs Of the Week

Old Favorite Songs:
Velvet Acid Christ: Slut


Social Distortion: Ball and Chain


September Mourning: Before the Fall

New Favorite Songs:
Toni Halliday: Now The Time is Here


Daybehavior: Change


Bella Morte: Water Through Sand