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Anger is a Gift Time to Rally Rage Against the Machine at Hollywood Palladium 7/23/10

Before I start, milestone in Red Meat Reviews history, this is my 100th Post!!!! To commemorate this monumental moment I have picked a show to  review that is near and dear to my heart. In true meat fashion lets get into it.

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE played the Hollywood Palladium last Friday, I can stop right there, but you know I wont.

Needless to say this show RULED. The set list [...]

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New Music Review Bites- Ariels Pink Haunted Graffiti, Fools Gold, British India

Ariels Pink Haunted Graffiti- Before Today

If you are into Lo Fi abstract genre questioning music than this is your dude. I don’t even know if I like what I hear, but I cant stop listening to it. WARNING this is not for everyone. The subtleties and details may be missed by the casual butt rocker, but the indie kids will love it. Go out and buy this album, file [...]

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New Music Review Bites – How to Destroy Angels, Johnny Foreigner

What happens when you combine Trent Reznor(the motherfuckingman), Mariqueen Maandig(Lead singer of West Indian Girl, super hot, and Trent’s wifie) and Atticus Ross(producer of many NIN projects)? You get a great project called How to Destroy Angels.

Since it’s a Trent Reznor Project he made their EP available for FREE!!!! So I recommend downloading it and formulating your own opinion but since this you are reading this I will tell [...]

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New Music Review Bites- The Dead Weather, MGMT, Male Bonding

The Dead Weather- Sea Of Cowards

I have nothing bad at all to say about the sophomore release of the new Dead Weather Album. Its really simple, every track is AMAZING. If you like your rock n roll aggressive, brash, sexy, smokey, heavy and unapologetic then this is the album for you. Every track stands out and has its own style, Die by the Drop is a great radio friendly [...]

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Contra the Non 8bit Album Review

Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A SELECT START is the code for 30 lives for 2 players in Konami’s Contra for the NES that came out in the 1980’s. Contra by Vampire Weekend is an album that came out today that features a Polaroid of a chick from 1983 as the cover art.

Vampire [...]

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Unlock Cage the Elephant LIVE

cage-the-elephant-cage-the-elephant-437079Down south twangness just got amped up for this new band that has a major kick ass show. Cage the Elephant took the stage at the El Rey and with a little help from their guitar tech, Jordan “themotherfuckinman” Powell, got yours truly a ticket to the show for some beers and some rock.

So how were they? Super kick ass sweet thats how. If you heard any of [...]

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Fishbone is Still Red Hot

Fishbone LogoYou know that a concert is good when it takes you two days to recover both physically and mentally enough to be able to sit down, process one’s thoughts and write a review on it. On Friday, August 14th at Joey Harrison’s Surf Club in Ortley Beach, New Jersey, I once again had the pleasure to see this great funk, punk, soul, rock, metal, ska band from Los Angeles, [...]

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The Giraffes – Union Pool, Brooklyn 7/25/09

Giraffes PosterIt had been almost three years since I had seen The Giraffes play and I was itching for my rock n roll fix. Luckily for me, I was back in the country, on the east coast and in Brooklyn, the fine borough where these four fellows hail from. The night was warm, the whiskey was being poured, I was in the company of some excellent human beings, the Yankees [...]

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Micachu and the Shapes Live Review – Abstract Punk Rock Genius

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Yeah i said it. So last night i took that long trek down the 101 highway to see a UK trio, Micachu and the Shapes, at the Echo in LA. Ever since i popped in their debut CD “Jewellery” i was fascinated by how sporadically different they are from your current noise and post punk rock bands. Their album contains so many strange and unregistered noises that half the excitement about the show [...]