Environmental campaigns seem to go hand-in-hand with music events. Live Earth is a fine example. Many bands are using their tours as platforms for environmental education and recycling programs, like Linkin Park, Cheryl Crow and the Beastie Boys. But nothing sings about environmental doom and destruction like a carefully chosen documentary soundtrack. Finally, someone has matched planetary doom with the perfect soundtrack of doom metal and dark ambient electronica! I feel I have finally found a single category of music to describe many of my favorite bands - a class of music that I haven’t been able to summarize with a single name until today - Music For Environmental Doom! It’s perfect! What other category could so perfectly link Khanate with Gas, Brian Eno with Arve Henriksen, and Mogwai with Sigur Ros or Lamb? I’d love to own a soundtrack with this music, especially if it were on gatefold double vinyl! ([More →])

Apollo Heights have been busy - with sexy results…. They recorded a new album called White Music for Black People that features Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Mos Def, Dave Sitek (TVOTR) and the Lady Miss Kier (Deee-Lite)! How appropriate that the songs came out with titles like “Disco Lights,” “The Color of Love Is Blue” and “Everlasting Gobbster”! ([More →])