VINYL FORMAT. Los Angeles-based NEON KING KONG is the newest vehicle for former LE SHOK vocalist Hot Rod Todd. Following the somewhat anticlimactic breakup of LE SHOK in mid-2001, Todd quickly got busy teaming-up with newly-transplanted Buddy and Mike, both former members of TEENAGE HEARTHROBS and LESBIAN MAKERS (as well as their recent addition - former THE COUNT drummer, Jeremy). Within a few short months the band were hitting the road for weekend trips with noteworthy (and massively-popular) bands like ...   [ read more ]

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Very different sounding from their previous releases in both sound and approach. This was going to be a quiet, stripped down album but the band started playing with full instrumentation on a whim and changed their entire approach. The results are songs that were written softly and played loud. The vocals are more stylized and the string arrangements add a haunting texture not present on other releases. Definitely the kind of record you grow to love with each listen. "If only we could put the aging process ...   [ read more ]

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It's difficult to criticize this CD release, of the original music tracks from Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's {#King Kong}, from 1933, although it is slightly confusing on first glance. Tracks 12-20, running 24 minutes, are, indeed, Max Steiner's unmixed pre-mastering music tracks, preserved from a group of complimentary 78 r.p.m. records issued to close friends of the producers in 1933, and they are glorious--you can experience the score that changed the way filmmakers and studios th...   [ read more ]

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