Pink Mountaintops , Stephen McBean's other band when he's not occupied with Black Mountain, have always seemed to me to represent the somewhat softer side of his songwriting, even though it's ultimately no less amplified than his other gig.
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Pink Mountaintops , the Vancouver collective led by Stephen McBean (also of Black Mountain) will be going on a short North American tour this December which kicks off in NYC on December 4 at Cake Shop and December 5 at Union Pool , the latter of which is with The Loom. No other acts have been announced for the Cake Shop date yet.
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Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription.
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On first thoughts, the dark, dense music of Black Mountain doesn't really seem to fit the bill for the soundtrack of a surf movie – wasn't Jack Johnson available?
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Of all the bands you could call on to soundtrack a post-apocalyptic surf movie, the psych rock riffasaurus rex that is Black Mountain makes a pretty inspired choice.
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FOR ALL THE GRIPING about Portland weather during the spotty weeks of July, those in the know quietly recognize that summer doesn't fully bloom until the first weekend in August.
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In a relatively painless manner, the White Stripes announced on Wednesday their dissolution.
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It's not easy to make Sabbath-style proto-metal sound fresh, but Black Mountain have a way of writing songs that go to the places you hope they will without descending into cliché.
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excellent point (on amber) - her voice and delivery is so awesomely commanding that it doesn't really matter that she's not giving the audience any more than that.
Read MoreAs you know, I have declared this the year of Black Angels on this site.
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The Black Angels ] opened [the Bowery Ballroom show] with "You On The Run," a head bobbing shoegazy track filled with Velvet Underground-esque drone replete with tambourines and fuzzy guitars...
Read MoreFor a while this cover art made me not even want to play the record.
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Most of the time, I have no Earthly idea what the hell Black Mountain are singing about.
Read MoreI'm already arriving late and am I going to be even more late just because there's a line, tonight of all nights.
Read MoreFor a band like Vancouver, longhaired throwback rockers, Black Mountain, there was really no where to go after their monolithic 2008, release, In the Future.
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Generally, in whatever shortcomings are present in our relationships, our professional lives, or our personal struggles, the problems are less interesting than the solutions.
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Ryan Walter Wagner I had the opportunity/duty of thinking very hard about Black Mountain's last album, 2008′s In The Future , when it was put on the Polaris Music Prize short list for that year and I was put on the grand jury.
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Canadian psych rock five piece Black Mountain contend ably that a backward glance can sometimes result in unstoppable forward motion.
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I always get a chuckle out of the name to Black Mountain 's last record, In The Future .
Read MoreThe video for the splendidly-titled 'Hair Song', Wilderness Heart 's opener and Black Mountain 's latest statement of nostalgic intent, is a weird one.
Read MoreRandall Dunn, best known for his work with doom-metal giants Boris and Sunn O))), and D. Sardy, whose lengthy list of multi-platinum clients includes Oasis and the Rolling Stones.
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There is a moment – a silent pulse – nearly four minutes into 'Rollercoaster', just before the song careens headfirst over a cliff into a chorus, that nicely situates Black Mountain's newest album, Wilderness Heart ( out September 14 on Jagjaguwar).
Read MoreThe Hair Song " features one of the best Stephen McBean and Amber Webber duets on the album.
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On their upcoming album Wilderness Heart , the Black Mountain chose to soften up their previously diamond-tough chemical composition with bittersweet acoustic touches and largely uncluttered vocal and melodic elements.
Read MoreBlack Mountain's Wilderness Heart , which is due out on Jagjaguwar on Sept. 14, is shaping up to be one of the best hard rock releases of the year.
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From earlier interviews, McBean stated that this was the first album that was not self-produced by the band and was not recorded in their studio in Vancouver.
Read MoreI can't take credit for this one, but the running joke during Black Mountain's recent appearance at the Beachland Ballroom was that they are such the longhairs, should you even manage to shave their heads, the high and tight look would last for but a minute before their shaggy locks would re-grow to their previous length.
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At this point, whenever the words "new Black Mountain song" appear together, people kind of know what to expect: another classic-rock throwback jam with prog flourishes, deep-fried riffs, and keyboard parts that just border on being cheesy.
Read MoreJust a couple of days ago, I reviewed Black Mountain's blistering show at The Beachland Ballroom (see HERE ).
Read MoreIf the crowd Saturday night at the Beachland Ballroom for the heavy, psychedelic grooves of Vancouver's Black Mountain was sparser than expected, it was not without good reason.
Read MoreToday was one of those weird weather days – insufferably humid throughout the day until the haze and muck bled into some wickedly ominous and dark horizon clouds.
Read MoreFriday night Vancouver psych-rockers Black Mountain took over Toronto's Horseshoe Tavern, unveiling mighty stoner jams off their soon-to-be-released album 'Wilderness Heart.'
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I've been going back and forth from Vancouver since September.
Read MoreBlack Mountain's 2008 release, In the Future, was epic, monolithic, and pretty much every other big word you can think of to convey the notion of a gargantuan slab of extended, smoked-out jams.
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