5th PROJEKT – Shapeshifter (Live)
The world keeps moving, and the public’s habits about how they consume entertainment change as well. That’s to be expected. Every new technological development has done its best to arrest the attention of the public.
We may need to add the art album listening to a list of things that have fallen out of fashion. With so many ways to spend their free time, people, especially younger folks, simply can’t or won’t find the time to spend it with an album.
However, live shows are as popular as ever. And much of the music popular in this setting shares something with 5th PROJEKT: it’s searching for something transcendental.
“Shapeshifter,” a live recording, takes the heavier, grungier aspects of grunge and mutates them into something mesmeric, hypnotic. This is nothing if not ceremonial music. And with this, 5th PROJEKT prove something important: whether it’s a live show or an album, people will still tune in if there’s something that they believe is hidden from them and that they can find.
Redletter Radio – Going Off
What’s the story of the talented, angry young men of 1970s rock? Am I able to tell it to you in just a few words? Sure, I can. They were Americans who fell in love with British music. They started bands and began to scandalise their own nation before going international.
It gets better. From Alice Cooper to Sex Pistols, from Sham 69 to KISS, they made some good records (usually, great singles), got really famous and got scared. Once the excitement was gone, they started making safe choices, toured the hits for the rest of their lives and made money.
You should catch the best bands at their most exciting. If you dive into the work of Redletter Radio circa “Going Off,” you’re likely to get in on the ground level of a special operation. This band’s got a spark, but, most importantly, the excitement and ambition to make something of themselves. Catch them now, before they start touring the hits.
