Black Sabbath, Live In Hamilton

Black Sabbath is the great heavy rock & roll singularity. Before Sabbath, there was nothing but an infinitely dense, hot mass of possibility. From their very first sinister tritone, the borders of rock and roll expanded instantly and endlessly, and in that moment they created the universal conditions under which all hard rock that came afterwards would need to obey to exist.

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A trio walks into a talent agency…

My friend Jagger recently turned me onto this band called The Aristocrats. He’s a serious muso (which is like the musical equivalent of “foodie”), and this band features some extremely developed playing from extremely advanced musicians.