SATURDAY SONG TO GET STONED TO: DARK WATER TRANSIT – “REFRIGERATE THE NEIGHBORHOOD”
I been a huge fan of Baltimore’s Dark Water Transit for so goddman long (yup), and it is my esteemed pleasure to present their sonic assault to your unsuspecting ears.
There’s just sometin bout de way dis trio keeps it organic-sounding that really gets my manties wet — I want more recorded material from them, I want more live shows in my city, and I want those things right NOW, k?
The band’s last offering was Dawn of the Goblin, a retelling of four tracks from the band Goblin’s original soundtrack for George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, and DWT also has some rare older stuff, but really The Wonders of the New New Testament is the place to start, and totally where it’s at. Nonetheless Goblin is a pretty interesting (albeit uneven) creative endeavor, and for that they continue to receive my full support. You can check out the track “Zombi” on the band’s MySpace page, read a review of the album here, and an interview with guitar player Paul Joyce here, if you are so inclined.
But holy sheet — pretty please with Satan on top, can’t you come to my small town and bring some demos of new songs to tide me over until there’s another official release?
DARK WATER TRANSIT – “Refrigerate the Neighborhood”, from The Wonders of the New New Testament (2002)
After the jump, you can read my old friend Dr. Guzaro Zahmeugua’s original notes on the band’s unique sound, first published in 2003.
Congrats to “Crack Hitler” for winning 
Mr. Hitler wins a CD copy of Psycroptic’s 
They are a rare cross-breed of monkey, falcon, and bobcat (recessive gene thus far), and have been infused with an unusual amount of intelligence for similar such Frankenstein-inspired experiments…Vince and Axl seem convinced that with each genus level forward, the MS Monkeyz (currently on version 3.4) ought to be able to achieve technological advancements that even humans haven’t conquered thus far. Case in point: the aforementioned time machine that a good 45% of our monkey task force is presently assigned to.
On Sunday night Vince and myself, through circumstances too depressing to go into here, ended up having dinner with my folks. And the thing about Mr. & Mrs. Rosenberg is this: they’re old and they’re bat shit crazy. I’m sure some of you can relate: you get a call saying “Oh, we saw this wonderful movie last night,” but then they can’t remember the name of the movie, what it was about, or who was in it. It’s quite thrilling, really.
The sales of recorded music are in as bleak a state as ever, and this week’s Soundscan charts paint the picture. The screenshot at left is from the Top 25 of this week’s charts; the column in the middle is the percentage each album dropped from last week to this week. Excepting the Total Club Hits compilation which debuted at #16 (the “999%” entry you see), you have to go all the way down to #52 to find an album that actually increased sales from week to week.
I know we give Metallica a lot of shit around here, but somewhere along the way people assumed that we HATE Metallica. And that’s not the case – we just hate what Metallica have become. Once upon a time, they made three (or four or five, depending on your POV) of what are inarguably the greatest metal albums EVER, so even if they bit the big one sometime in the 90s, seeing them get some recognition for the gods they once were is never a bad thing (Unless it’s that MTV Icon thing. That was just bullshit.).
