{"id":909,"date":"2010-09-08T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T05:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2010-09-08T00:03:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T05:03:03","slug":"black-angels-death-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Black Angel&#8217;s Death Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 2px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/BADS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><em>Nothing Equals Nothing<\/em> 7&#8243;<br \/>\nDionysus Records, 1991<\/p>\n<p>Following the line from the namesake <strong>Velvet Underground<\/strong> song &#8220;Black Angel&#8217;s Death Song&#8221; all the way to current Austin psych darlings\u00a0<strong>The Black Angels<\/strong>, you&#8217;ll find a number of VU-inspired troupes carrying the underground freak rock flag. This loose-knit Los Angeles group from the early 1990s put out some inspired singles like this one, which falls somewhere in between the nonchalant scrap pop of <strong>Pavement<\/strong> and slo-mo\u00a0guitar haze of\u00a0<strong>Spaceman 3. <\/strong><span>The title track &#8220;Nothing Equals Nothing&#8221; is sneering &#8217;80s So-Cal punk accented with &#8217;60s bongo beats, neatly connecting the counterculture strains of each era to create a timeless hybrid that&#8217;s as relevant now as it was in 1991. In fact, it may be even <em>more<\/em> relevant today in the sonic blender of the MP3 age, where decades of rock genres and subgenres are so easily condensed and referenced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/BADS-NothingEqualsNothing.mp3\">Black Angel&#8217;s Death Song &#8211; &#8220;Nothing Equals Nothing&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/BADS-WhatDoYouMean.mp3\">Black Angel&#8217;s Death Song &#8211; &#8220;What Do You Mean?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/blackangelsdeathsong\">Black Angel&#8217;s Death Song on MySpace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing Equals Nothing 7&#8243; Dionysus Records, 1991 Following the line from the namesake Velvet Underground song &#8220;Black Angel&#8217;s Death Song&#8221; all the way to current Austin psych darlings\u00a0The Black Angels, you&#8217;ll find a number of VU-inspired troupes carrying the underground freak rock flag. This loose-knit Los Angeles group from the early 1990s put out some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[147,12,128,34,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}