The Black Angels

Raveonettes, Black Angels Bring The Noise

By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) October 23, 2009 12:58 pm

Austin, Texas psych rock band The Black Angels were a good match for The Raveonettes on this North American tour, as both groups revel in using lots of reverb and feedback. But while The Raveonettes surround those aspects with melodies and harmonies to create great, compact pop tunes, The Black Angels songs usually tend to drone on a bit too...

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The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost

By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) May 13, 2008 9:58 am

I've never been to Burning Man and I'm reasonably certain I'll never go. Just the thought of all those naked hippie ravers feeling each other up and getting sunstroke out in the desert strikes me as far more gross than liberating. A Black Angels twilight desert freakout session would be something entirely different. On this new album there's one...

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The Black Angels' Directions To See A Ghost

The Black Angels — Passover

By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) June 20, 2006 3:07 pm

Austin, Texas psych-rockers The Black Angels make music that's evil. The seven-piece (including an official "projectionist") pay fealty to The Velvet Underground and contemporaries like Brian Jonestown Massacre, but there's more to them than arty drone. Beyond the freak-outs and trippy light shows is something downright dangerous. "Better Off...

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Pink Mountaintops' McBean The True Canadian Idol

By Noah Love (CHARTattack) June 12, 2006 3:30 pm

As another season of American Idol winds down and another round of Canadian Idol gears up, the key problem with the shows has become more evident than ever: perfection. Perfection is boring. It leaves no room for creativity and is simply tailor-made to be absorbed clinically by radio listeners. Standing opposite to the Idol machine is the...

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The Black Angels — The Black Angels EP

By Michael Stittle (CHARTattack) December 13, 2005 1:44 pm

The Black Angels hail from Austin, Texas, but musically they're from the LSD-soaked clubs of late '60s San Francisco. Their particular brand of droning, psychedelic garage rock has later influences, too, like Spacemen 3 and Anton Newcombe. It's a potent mixture of gloom and drug-induced psychosis. On "Manipulation," a sitar is...

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Video Of The Day: The Black Angels' "Haunting At 1300 McKinley"

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 21, 2011 4:57 pm

This would suck. Imagine walking down the street and constantly being punched or kicked or pushed by some kind of invisible... ghost. That's exactly what's going on in this Black Angels video, where a man has an absolutely terrible time walking through Paris, France and ends up bloody-faced in less than two minutes. That ought to make you look at...

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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 4, 2011

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 4, 2011 3:30 pm

RJD2 has released a free three-song EP of remixes that also includes the video for "The Glow." Grab The Glow Remixes here. Here's something that makes almost no sense: TV On The Radio bassist and producer Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction. Well... kind of. He's playing bass on their new album. —Spinner Kanye West is doing everything he can to...

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16th Annual Year-End Readers' Poll - Best International Album

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 8, 2010 10:28 am

#2 International Golden Toque (Best International Album)Market Research Next Question: #3 Blissful Noise Award (Best Song)

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16th Annual Year-End Readers' Poll - Best Video

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 8, 2010 10:22 am

#8 The Thank You Much—Ly Award 2010 (Best Video)customer surveys Next Question: #9 The That Rocked Award (Sweet Happenings In Music This Year)

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16th Annual Year-End Readers' Poll - Stinky Happenings In Music This Year

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 8, 2010 10:20 am

#10 The That Sucked Award (Stinky Happenings In Music This Year)survey software

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Video Of The Day: The Black Angels' "Telephone"

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) September 27, 2010 3:49 pm

What at first looks like a boring-assed normal video of a band looking bored at a diner turns into a bunch of people wearing freaky old people masks and skeletons dancing around in German World War II-era uniforms. You scare us, Black Angels. "Telephone" appears on Phosphene Dream.

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Arcade Fire's The Suburbs Holds #1 On Chart For Fifth Week

By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) September 21, 2010 11:13 am

This week's column will soon start to sound like a broken record. For a fifth consecutive week, Arcade Fire's The Suburbs holds the #1 position on the campus top 50 chart for the week ending Sept. 21, 2010. And for a fifth week, their competition isn't even close! The Suburbs received 1,718 point to rack up some impressive numbers that should...

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Arcade Fire At Granada Theatre In Sherbrooke, QC (Photo by Cindy Lopez)

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The Black Angels — Phosphene Dream

By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) September 14, 2010 11:26 am

As far as counterculture guiding principles go, the line "We encourage you to rethink your preconceived notions, question authority, and create other methods of survival" in the liner notes of The Black Angels third album Phosphene Dream certainly ranks as a lot darker than "tune in, turn on, drop out." And that's exactly what you get from an...

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The Daily Dig: The Black Angels' "Bad Vibrations"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 12, 2010 1:04 pm

We're in the second half of the year now (where did the time go?) and I've been pretty impressed by some of the records released so far. But the last couple months have made me realize my top 10 list at the end of the year is going to be very... Black. That's 'cause there are three records I've absolutely loved have been or...

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Who's Better: The Black Keys, Black Mountain Or The Black Angels?

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 9, 2010 4:23 pm

This seems to be a year where a lot of bands with "black" in their name released (or will release) awesome records.The Black Keys' latest, Brothers, is one example, but Sept. 14 will be an incredibly black day, since it will see the release of two wicked-cool psychedelic records, Black Mountain's Wilderness Heart and The Black...

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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 3, 2010

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) August 3, 2010 12:55 pm

Evolve Festival organizer Jonas Colter was arrested by a Mountie in Halifax last weekend and charged $4,500 for postering. The Chronicle Herald Yellowcard are releasing a new album on Hopeless Records after a two-year hiatus. They'll continue to be overshadowed by more popular emo bands that no one gives a crap about, either. Alternative...

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The Grist 13 And Shitty 7 — August 2010

By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 30, 2010 3:14 pm

The Grist 13 1. Franklin Mott Because he's really fast at texting. 2. Zombie Jellyfish Injures 100 People Yeah, muthafucka! That's Mother Nature striking back at us for being stupid. 3. The Black Angels This is your new favourite band. 4. Pigeons Any animal that shits in the mouth of Kings Of Leon band members is awesome in our...

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