Author Archives: Max Sidman
The Blind Shake Will Melt Your Face
I love The Blind Shake. Back in August of 2009, Ovipositor (my former band) played at Thee Parkside in SF with the Minneapolis trio — Dave on drums, Jim on Guitar / vocals and Mike on baritone guitar / vocals … Continue reading
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Harvey Milk Live in Birmingham
Holy shit this is awesome — Harvey Milk live at the Bottle Tree in Birmingham, AL. I love this band but I’ve never seen them play live, and this clip just makes me feel like a supersized shithead for not … Continue reading
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Hole In The Sky, Stuck In My Head
Black Sabbath, “Hole In The Sky,” Sabotage… [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I’m looking through a hole in the sky I’m seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie I’m getting closer to the end of the line … Continue reading
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Do Want: Dave Smith Instruments Tempest
I’m headed to the NAMM Show tomorrow, but I just got a heads-up from a friend over at Dave Smith Instruments about a product they unveiled this morning at the opening of the show. It’s an analog drum machine called … Continue reading
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The 2010 List
I took a different approach to this year’s best-of / top-whatever records list. This is not a Top 10. What it essentially boiled down to is that I did not — cannot and will not, for reasons having to do … Continue reading
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Such Hawks Such Hounds: Scenes From the American Hard Rock Underground
The homie G-Pek put me up on this indie documentary film about heavy music, Such Hawks Such Hounds, and I liked the trailer so much, I bought the DVD. Check this out…
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Interview: Al Cisneros On Bass-Drums Synergy
A brief interview I did with Al Cisneros for the December 2010 issue of Bass Player magazine is now posted on the BP site. As the low end steward for stoner metal pioneers Sleep, supergroup Shrinebuilder (featuring members of the Melvins, Neurosis, … Continue reading
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Bass Nerd: A Shitload of Cliff Burton Solo Tracks
The guys over at NoTreble threw up one of these clips — “For Whom The Bell Tolls” — a few weeks ago, I bookmarked it, and just recently went back to discover that the YouTube user who initially posted it also put … Continue reading
Ovipositor: The Last Stand
Roughly three months after the final show and subsequent implosion of Ovipositor, we (Colin and I) managed to get with Ben Adrian at Mr. Toad’s in SF to master the unfinished album, Everyone Has Their Tipping Point. Ben has a great … Continue reading
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A Long, Slow Screw: Reading by Eugene S. Robinson
I don’t generally get down with the literary scene. I’m a relatively slow novel reader (my bookish voracity centers more around magazines and journalistic works), I’m not into snapping my fingers for applause (I don’t really even know if people … Continue reading