Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri Maaf Zahir Batin

Selamat Hari Raya Maaf Zahir Batin

That’s what people say at Hari Raya, right?
Except normally they have someone to say it to.
They have friends and family,
And they haven’t been crouched naked in toilet
with a bottle of suicide pills, spilled on the floor
They’re not out of their minds, they’re not writing in a diary,
And they’re definitely not watching their celebration spirit delusionally
I didn’t speak to a single person today.
I figured why should I ruin their fucking Hari Raya.

I’ve started a new diary and this time I have a few new reasons.
One, I have no friends left.
Two, so I can read back and remember what I did the day before.
And three, so if I die, at least I leave a nice little suicide note of my life.

It’s just me and you, diary. Welcome to my fucked up life.

Nobody would believe the shit that happens in my head, it’s haunted.
Now that I’ve come down from the drugs
it seems like a sick play that I saw in a movie somewhere.
Three weeks ago, I could’ve killed someone.
Or better yet, myself.

The Parlor Mob – Bringing Back The Groove

Birds of A Black Feather

Formed in 2003 in Red Bank, New Jersey, the band’s Road Runner debut, And You Were A Crow, mixes high energy boogie-riff workouts with Led Zeppelin III- style acoustic jams. But it is not all a journey through the past: Guitarist Paul Ritchie and Dave Rosen conjure a wiry, dual ax attack, and a singer Mark Melicia’s fevered yelp is as much as the Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala as Robert Plan.

The Parlor Mob

New Jersey may have a fairly respectable rock and roll lineage, but for much of this decade it’s primarily been known as the home of emo i.e. New Jersey and Long Island emo acts such as Brand New, Glassjaw, Midtown, The Movielife, My Chemical Romance, Saves the Day, Senses Fail, Taking Back Sunday, and Thursday.

So what’s a band of longhairs to do? Well they definitely had to play their share of those all-ages, VFW-hall matinees. But it wasn’t so bad for them. They enjoyed going in there, playing their non-emoish stuff, rocking out, seeing these looks on on emo-vampire loving kids’ faces like, ‘What the fuck is going on right now?‘

Pushing a straightforward in your face rock sound, the Parlor Mob have become headliners. Their debut album, And You Were a Crow, shows of the bluesy, classic-rock-influenced riffs they worked so hard to home, most notably on the anthemic “Hard Times”.

Paul Ritchie uses Fender Classic Series ’72 Telecaster Deluxe and Dave Rosen is on Fender Stratocaster.

Check out “Hard Times” video below.

Album Review : Akimbo – Jersey Shores

The most unfortunate fuck up in every music listener’s repertoire is that the listeners will always have expectations towards new release. And by norm, the standards are high. This is why .. er .. bummer! Writer’s block.

The following album review does not relate with the above statement. The album that I reviewed is an old release that I have in collection.

Jersey Shores by Akimbo.

Akimbo - Jersey Shore

With a concept album based on the real-life shark attacks that inspired the cinematic classic Jaws, Akimbo bust out music that equals such ferocity. Akimbo continue pumping out records at a prodigious pace, this one following closely on the heels of the last release, Navigating the Bronze. This is their sixth full-length in seven years and Jersey Shores offers the Akimo leitmotifs: careening drum squals, swollen bass, filthy guitars and desperate, throat ravaged screams. Yet they’ve retooled their approach, with longer songs and lengthy quieter passages. Jersey Shores features the clearest production as well as most thought out songs of any Akimbo release. “Matawan” introduces their evolution with more Neurosis-like finesse at balancing delicate parts with slow moments of skull-crushing intensity. “Lester Stillwell” and “Jersey Shores” are over 11 minutes of that recipe. Such an onslaught is certainly heavy, though rather overwrought given their redundancy. Yet the album’s strengths coalesce on the guitar grunge odyssey “Rogue”: a sublime portrait of Akimbo at their best. Jersey Shores display a band at the peak of their powers.

Check out their band website. http://livetocrush.blogspot.com/