Yage Design is the new concept band created by Jared Mercer in February 2010. Basically the plan with this musical property is to create music and videos every month to coincide with Rigor Mortis Magazine’s releases, thus giving each one some form of hype via the zine and also giving a sufficient amount of time …
Category Archives: Sounds
Sade: Soldier of Love
A long ten years of anticipation have built up for this moment. For Sade’s most avid listeners, the time between the present and Lover’s Rock (2000) has lasted forever! When “Soldier of Love” surfaced online just a few months ago, news of a new Sade song fast ignited a blaze of exclamation points across blogs …
The Power of the Music Video
Broadcast and the Focus Group are supposed to be only an interim EP for its members James Cargill and Trish Keenan but they have managed to outdo themselves. Their album Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age has garnered some high praise despite its stupid name. The Wire magazine gave them the #1 spot for …
Shock Album: Charlotte Gainsbourg
I have been having troubles getting the vision of Charlotte Gainsbourg cutting off her vagina lips in film AntiChrist out of my head for a number of months now. Actually that whole film pretty much scarred me, but she was the worst in her writhing naked, Willem Defoe genital mutilating, crazy woman role as created …
Vice Guide to Liberia
Since Rigor Mortis has “applied” to become a part of the Vice blogging network (see sidebar for link to Vice) I figured we should promote something of theirs since that is what they would like their network to do from time to time. So here we are pushing something that they have done.
The Vice Guide …
Is Tropical, they were probably fun
I went out on Saturday to see this burgeoning London band called Is Tropical (strange name I am aware), as they were playing at Cargo just off of Old Street. Rivington to be exact. I call Cargo in advance to ask what time the music would be starting so that I know what time to …
Jay Reatard Dies Aged 29
This is another update that has nothing to do with my music but I have to put it here as Jay Reatard has died! Only a month and a half ago I saw him play live in Camden and shook his hand after the shows congratulating him on another good performance. I got into Jay’s …
Comanechi, a band you should know
Having found this music magazine in Camden one day called Loud and Quiet, I think I have found a publication with my taste in music. What they recommend and say is good I feel like I more often than not agree with and I rarely feel that way about music magazines (I currently subscribe to …
Jay Reatard live in London and King Khan’s new album
Jay Reatard had a barn storming performance this past Friday at Underworld in Camden. Typical to most of his sets, he just yells out the name of the song and then bursts through it with reckless abandon, and with little to no banter in between songs. The set lasted around 40 minutes, which is pretty …
Franz Ferdinand Live (and why not?)
By Jared Mercer
I am not the biggest Franz Ferdinand fan in the world, but when I heard they were performing at the Brixton Academy in late October I thought: I havn’t been to a show yet after my first two months in London and I better get to one. So I did.
I have always been …